Positive steps

Help for LGBT youths in Benin, where anti-gay lynchings are commonplace
Johannesburg Pride Parade 2023 (Guillem Sartorio photo courtesy of Getty Images/AFP/Pink News)
Africa Pride 2024 will celebrate love in the face of hatred and homophobia
We did it! All 13 innocent LGBTQ prisoners have been freed
Donations freed a lesbian couple from prison in Cameroon
Illustration courtesy of Attitude magazine / J Studios / Getty Images
Attitude magazine focuses on how we set prisoners free
Odrek Rwabwogo, Ugandan trade advisor: "So much can change in six months". (Photo courtesy of Zenger.news)
Uganda squirms as pressure mounts to repeal anti-gay law
Screenshot from Aṣa's music video "Odo". (Source: YouTube)
Nigerian singer Aṣa celebrates the diversity of love in her latest song
A Youth Day parade in 2015 in Cameroon. (Photo courtesy of achelchaikof.com)
Cameroon: A merciful principal confronts two lesbian students
Apako Williams (Photo courtesy of Kuchu Times)
Uganda’s Global Fund coordinating board gets first Transman member
PLEASE DONATE: We helped free a lesbian couple in Cameroon
Secret LGBT-friendly church offers communion. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Secret LGBT-friendly church welcomes and protects Kenyan worshippers
PLEASE DONATE: We bring hope to abused Nigerian trans women
Illustration courtesy of Minority Africa
From taboo to truth: African queer positive films are challenging stereotypes
Qtalk: The mobile app transforming LGBT lives in Nigeria
Map of the 67 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 efforts to remove them. 
Number of nations with laws against gay sex falls to 66
Abdool Ridwan Firaas (Ryan) Ah Seek (Photo courtesy of 5plus)
African island nation Mauritius overturns anti-sodomy law