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Map of the 65 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them.
LGBTQ rights update: 2025 tally and 2026 preview
Veteran LGBTI rights attorney Alice Nkom remains locked in a legal dispute with Cameroonian authorities who accuse her of “financing terrorism” — a charge she vehemently denies, declaring that her principled stand is in defense of the rule of law in Cameroon.
2025 LGBTQ rights update: African activists resist growing repression
Their love affair was private, but it landed 2 women in jail in Niger for ‘public indecency’
Alio Daouda is the Minister of Justice of the Junta in Niamey (Photo @nigerdiaspora.net)
Acquittal of 2 lesbians in Niger leads to uproar over judicial independence
Map of LGBT Rights in Africa — BLUE: Same-sex marriage is legal and discrimination based on sexual orientation prohibited. (Note: The little blue islands are Spanish, French, and UK territories); MAUVE: Limited recognition of foreign same-sex marriages; ORANGE: Same-sex sexual relations are illegal
2024 LGBTQ rights global update: Progress and reversals in Africa
Help for LGBT youths in Benin, where anti-gay lynchings are commonplace
Sharon Lewin, president of the International AIDS Society (Max Mason-Hubers photo courtesy of IAS)
Upsurge of African anti-gay laws risks upsurge of AIDS
Scene from PSI Congress in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo courtesy of PSI)
New Niger regime worries about citizens visiting Europe, learning about LGBT rights
Comment: Niger’s new leader might be better for gay rights, couldn’t be worse
Mohamed Bazoum, deposed president of Niger. (Photo courtesy of The Guardian Nigeria)
Niger leader plans to outlaw gay sex, execute married same-sex couples
Victimized gay couple flees Cameroon, hopes to reach Europe
Mister Niger competition during the 2014 festival
Abandoned: traditional festival of male beauty in Niger
Reine Alapini Gansou at African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Progress toward defending sexual minorities in Africa
While Africa is often described as a continent that is intolerant of its varied ethnic and religious differences, surveys paint a different picture -- a high level of acceptance of other ethnic groups, religions, immigrants, and people living with HIV / AIDS. But a strongly negative attitude toward homosexuals.
Africa’s most and least homophobic countries
Dorothy Aken’Ova (Photo courtesy of Q-zine.org)
Q-zine covers LGBT life in African countries with anti-gay laws