Positive steps

Joel Simpson, managing director of SASOD (Photo courtesy of the Guyana News Network)
Guyana president takes aim at his nation’s anti-gay law
Malawi drops charges against 2 arrested for gay sex
Tunisian court cuts off student’s homosexuality sentence
Dithi is the first member of the hijra third-gender community to run for public office in Bangladesh. (Photo courtesy of the Dhaka Tribune)
First third-gender person seeks Bangladesh public office
Petition seeks repeal of India’s anti-gay Section 377
Proved: Lesbians, gays, straights can be friends in Cameroon
Progress for LGBTI people and rights in the Caribbean
Queer Collective aims to make an impact in Uganda
In rural Uganda, 5 years of successes and challenges
​On third try, Ukraine passes law against anti-LGBTI bias
Elizabeth Funke Obisanya poses with her BEFFTA award and (on left) Sabrina Chiemeka, who played Magda, and Louisa Warren, who played the role of racist homophobe and bully Laura. "She is lovely in real life, though," Obisanya adds. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Funke Obisanya)
Praise from honored director: ‘She broke the anti-gay wall’
Deliriously happy after Jamaica’s first Montego Bay Pride
Botswana: Upcoming films will tell LGBTI stories
Focus of Nigerian podcast: Gains and pains of coming out
Frank Mugisha (right) with teachers at a Nsangi – Wakiso District school that received school supplies donated by Sexual Minorities Uganda. (Photo courtesy of SMUG)
With N.Y. youth’s help, Uganda activists boost education
Barbados Pride flyer
Will economic motives boost LGBTI rights in Caribbean?