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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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South Africa president praises his nation for embracing gay rights
Anti-gay Zambians fear their new president will endorse gay rights
Guyana government introduces bill to repeal defunct cross-dressing ban
Namibia justice minister announces plan to decriminalize gay sex this year
UPDATE: Namibian government allows gay man’s infant daughters to come home
Gay rights ally Stella Nyanzi concedes defeat in Uganda race
A one-minute story on Nicholas Opiyo, crusading gay rights advocate
Haiti: Violence keeps raging a year after Charlot Jeudy’s death
Map of Iran and Iraq
TV exposé from Iran targets LGBTQ safe houses in Iraq
Egyptian LGBTQ+ activist Sara Hegazy dies by suicide
Saudi flag behind barbed wires.
Yemeni blogger arrested and tortured for defending LGBTQ rights
Uganda challenger Bobi Wine supports gay rights
Greg Quinn, U.K. high commissioner to Guyana (Photo courtesy of the Guyana Chronicle)
UK nudges Guyana on death penalty, gay rights
In September 2018, gay rights supporters in Bangalore, India, celebrate the Supreme Court ruling that overturned India's anti-gay law. (Photo courtesy of USA Today)
2018: Great progress toward gay rights; much work lies ahead