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This site's activist journalists have laid the groundwork for Project Not Alone, which frees imprisoned victims of African homophobia. This illustration shows two gay men waiting for donations that will pay their fines and set them free.
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LGBTQ rights supporter Duma Boko is in line to become Botswana's next president. (Johannes Simon photo courtesy of Getty /News24.com)
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Word cloud shows the names of the 46 prisoners for whom Project Not Alone has won early release.
Readers’ donations have freed a total of 46 victims of African homophobia
On Martinique, an LGBT association campaigns in the midst of a social crisis
Gang members roam the streets of Port-au-Prince. (Photo courtesy of US News)
Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians
Hamlet Nkwain, executive director of Working for Our Wellbeing Cameroon (Photo courtesy of Working for Our Wellbeing Cameroon )
Cameroon LGBTI activist benefits from leadership training at US program
Vladlen Semivolos, Russian ambassador to Uganda (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of RadioTamazuj)
In Africa, Moscow battles against LGBTQ rights, side by side with U.S. religious conservatives
Joy Ruth Aceng (Photo courtesy of Pulse Uganda)
Canada expels Uganda’s homophobic envoy
Online image for petition seeking help for Charles Mwangi. (Click the image to see the appeal and the petition.)
Relief for bisexual Kenyan facing deportation from Canada
Uganda LGBTI activist honored by Canadian refugee organization
At Amsterdam's Pride Walk in 2017, protesters wore "Erasing 76 Crimes" T-shirts and carried the flags of the then 73 countries they urged to repeal their anti-LGBT laws. (Photo courtesy of Pride Walk)
LGBTQ people in wealthy nations deserve to know how the other half suffers
Haiti: Youthful mob calls for violence against two gay students
Human rights march in Martinique in 2012, which was organized by the people who founded the LGBTQ+ rights organization Kap Caraïbe later that year.
Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events
Evangelical Christians block proposed protections for LGBT Haitians
Map of 66 countries that criminalize homosexuality
In a reversal, homosexuality is now illegal in 66 nations
Guadeloupe photographer challenges assumptions about LGBTQ people and faith