Cape Town has been selected to host World Pride 2028, marking a historic moment for South Africa and the LGBTQ+ community, as it becomes the first African city to celebrate the prestigious event. WorldPride is an international event that celebrates LGBTQ+ pride, promoting equal rights and visibility for the LGBTQ+ community worldwide. Licensed by InterPride, […]
A video clip published on X, formerly Twitter, shows a gay couple being beaten and paraded in public in Nigeria because of their sexual orientation. In the clip shared by Portharcourt Specials, an account promoting the Port Harcourt area of Nigeria, on X, the couple who appeared half naked were being insulted and slapped on […]
A heterosexual Muslim man has taken a stand against a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Ghana by undertaking a one-man demonstration against the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021. Texas Kadiri Moro, a teacher and father of six, undertook a one-man demonstration against the bill, which seeks to criminalise members of the LGBTQ+ community […]
Ghana’s top court has upheld a six-decade-old law criminalising same-sex sexual acts as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher penalties in a new bill. The seven-member panel dismissed a lawsuit challenging the law, with presiding Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie saying reasons for the decision will be given later. […]
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is calling on Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo to repeal the “discriminatory” LGBTQ+ Bill passed by Ghana’s Parliament in what is widely seen as further criminalisation of LGBTQ+ communities in the West African country. The IBAHRI regards the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill (the Bill) […]
LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people across Africa are facing “a catastrophic rollback on their fundamental rights following the introduction of discriminatory legislation in several countries”, Amnesty International has said. In a new briefing looking at 12 African countries, Amnesty has documented a “staggering rise” in legislation being used to systematically target and […]
Steven Kabuye, a prominent LGBTQ+ rights activist in Uganda, where sexual minorities have faced a wave of abuse since an anti-gay law was enacted last year, was stabbed on Wednesday, January 3, and is in critical condition, his organisation, Coloured Voices Media Foundation-Truth to LGBTQ+ Uganda, said. Kabuye was “stabbed to near death by unknown […]
Police in Nigeria have detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding, in what is being reported as one of the country’s largest arrests targeting outlawed homosexuality.
All but two of Uganda’s 389 MPs have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and the “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”.
Lawmakers in Senegal, West Africa have drafted a law that would enforce even harsher punishments for the country’s repressed LGBTQ+ community.
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