Activist/analyst Scott Long here exposes: Unsubstantiated news reports that an Iranian teenager was hanged for being gay; and A fake Twitter account that apparently was set up to convince Egyptian authorities to arrest Long. Excerpts from Long’s blog post, with breaker heads added: Gay hanging in Iran: Atrocities and impersonations THE BOGUS HANGING [After … Continue reading
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Namibia: Political leader stands up for gay rights
A report from the “This Just In” news blog of the GLBT News Network. Namibia: Political leader stands up for gay rights The leader of one of Namibia’s political parties has spoken out for gay rights and gone head-to-head with his opponents who claim homosexuality is un-African. McHenry Venaani, the leader of Democratic Turnhalle Alliance … Continue reading
Tunisia politician guilty of gay sex; prison term nears end
Gay Star News reports: Mounir Baatour, a political party leader and lawyer, was found guilty of ‘sodomy’ with a 20-year-old man. Baatour was sentenced to three months in prison by the court of first instance in Tunis. The judge found him guilty of violating article 230 of the Tunisian Criminal Code that makes consensual gay … Continue reading
Russia: Police arrest 60 St. Petersburg gay pride marchers
Gay Star News, among others, reports: All the participants in today’s St Petersburg gay pride parade have been arrested and are being detained in police vans. Some participants were badly beaten by anti-gay protestors. Nikolai Alekseev, one of Russia’s most prominent LGBT activists who was arrested last month for organizing a gay rights march, confirmed … Continue reading
Will Europe pressure Ukraine to reject anti-gay bills?
Human rights activists are urging the European parliament to delay a move to ease requirements for visas for travel to and from Ukraine until that country drops efforts to curtail human rights of LGBT people. A vote on whether the European Union will allow visa-free travel from the Ukraine is expected on April 17, Gay … Continue reading
Uganda’s slow progress toward LGBT rights
Insightful commentary in Gay Star News from Jamaican (and international) LGBT activist Maurice Tomlinson about slow progress in Uganda: Though clearly delusional in his denial of ongoing LGBT abuses in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni’s recent statement nevertheless signals his support for the move by a few Ugandan Parliamentarians to permanently shelve the dreadful Anti-Homosexuality Bill … Continue reading
Update on ‘gay man stoned to death’ in Somalia
Many people remain skeptical about the recent story of a man being stoned to death in Somali for homosexual rape of a teenage boy, but the Associated Press has gathered enough supporting evidence to warrant publishing an article about it. The Somali LGBT rights group that first publicized the story insists that the stoning occurred, … Continue reading
3 men in hiding after attack by anti-gay mob in Nigeria
Three gay men are reportedly in hiding for their own protection after being seized, stripped and beaten by a mob in northern Nigeria on Jan. 14. Police have no plans to take action against members of the mob, Gay Star News reported, citing a relative of one of the men. Steve Aborisade, coordinator of the … Continue reading
Rosier outlook for 12 Libyans jailed after militia’s gay raid
Twelve allegedly gay men arrested by a Libyan militia reportedly will be turned over to the Libyan Ministry of Justice, according to an article today in the Libya Herald. They reportedly face charges of disturbing the peace, not of homosexual activity, which could have resulted in prison sentences of up to five years under Libyan … Continue reading
Activists: Zimbabwe media make up anti-gay stories
Did police in a suburb of the Zimbabwean city of Kadoma arrest a suspected gay couple on charges of sodomy? Zimbabwe’s official newspaper, The Herald, reported it. But LGBT activists say that story was apparently an invention of the state-controlled media, which seems to be dreaming up controversial stories about gay people in order to … Continue reading
