New help for LGBT asylum-seekers in South Africa
Gateway Health Institute, a South African not-for-profit organization, is extending its services to LGBT immigrants seeking asylum in…
Death of a Ugandan refugee; advice for those he left behind
The LGBT-friendly Sebaspace blog has tough advice for LGBT Ugandan refugees in Kenya, inspired by the sad recent…
Gay Ugandan refugees launch Kenyan craft company
Hundreds of LGBTI refugees who fled Ugandan repression are now enmeshed in new difficulties in Kenya, where they…
Why does Germany accept refugees, reject LGBTI activists?
COMMENTARY Why are German embassies denying visa requests from LGBTI activists seeking to take a brief trip to…
Advocates for LGBTI Africans on UK shortlist for award
The United Kingdom-based African LGBTI advocacy organization Out and Proud Diamond Group has been shortlisted for honors at…
Ugandan LGBTI refugees protest treatment in Kenya
LGBTI Ugandan refugees in Kenya protested today at the Nairobi office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees,…
Turkish police beat 2 gay Iranian refugees
In a country that LGBT Iranian refugees are finding increasingly hostile, two gay Iranian men were severely beaten on…
Germany blocks Ugandans' trip to safety seminar
The German embassy in Uganda has rejected applications by LGBTI activists for visas to travel to Cologne, Germany,…
Prominent Ugandan gay activist seeks U.S. asylum
Republished by permission from the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News: John Abadallah Wambere, a prominent Ugandan gay…
Anti-gay threats, attacks disrupt AIDS fight in Sierra Leone
DEATH THREATS, ATTACK, AND THEN ESCAPE Until they had to flee the country to save their lives, George…