The latest focus on the problem came from two people involved in preparations for Global Black Pride 2026, which was held last month in Paris.  They say they

As Turkiye (Turkey) expanded its attacks on the LGBT community, human rights activists countered last week with protests in Istanbul and Izmir, and now an

Ninety percent of the world's LGBTQ and intersex rights groups that were surveyed have lost funding since Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president in

Government of Turkey blocks LGBTQ+ websites and social media accounts

According to the executive director of Pride Equity—an organization advocating for the rights of the LGBT+ community in Sierra Leone with Hispanic roots—who witnessed the incident, about ten police of...

Donations are still needed to free more innocent prisoners in Cameroon and support the Qtalk counseling service for gay Nigerians. Your donation will be

The LGBTI community in Cameroon is experiencing an unprecedented crisis caused by the departure of many leaders, and cuts to funding.

Now its depths of carelessness and ignorance have come into view, as the U.S. team at the International AIDS Conference presented a map of Africa that looked

More donations are needed to help innocent victims of homophobia in Cameroon and Nigeria

3 LGBT prisoners have been released; 5 others await further donations.

Donations are urgently needed to free eight prisoners, including Chidi, whose story is below. For their safety, in this series of articles the prisoners are

On Friday, June 12, six new arrests took place in Linguère in central Senegal, as part of investigations linked to the May 15 arrest of Matar Ndiaga Seck for

In adopting an anti-gay law on June 11, 2026, the West African nation of Niger strengthened a wave of anti-homosexuality legislation and proposed legislation

More donations are urgently needed to free five innocent LGBTI prisoners.

The LGBTQ advocacy group Rightify Ghana states:

The largely anti-LGBTQ parliament of Ghana will play host next week to anti-LGBTQ officials   from throughout Africa with the goal of eliminating LGBTQ rights

They seek collective reflection and constructive dialogue in Senegal instead of repression.

Senegal's anti-LGBTQ witch hunt racks up more than 100 arrests

Those eight imprisoned victims of anti-LGBTQ hostility and homophobia are the focus of this year’s Project Not Alone, which expands on the project’s previous

Natalia Soloviova always knew she was putting herself at risk. As the chair of the Russian LGBT Network, the largest queer advocacy group in the country, she

The Cameroonian transgender community is in mourning. Doloresse, an emblematic figure of trans visibility in Cameroon, was found with her throat slit on the

Under Senegal's harsh new anti-homosexuality law, the first defendant has been convicted and sentenced to six years in prison, SeneNews reported. Below is

In Ghana, he vows to sign cruel anti-LGBTQ bill. In the U.S., he's evasive.

In Uganda, their 'crime' is punishable by life imprisonment

In Senegal, MassResistance moves beyond its anti-trans, anti-drag activism in the U.S.

Ugandan police have backed off after arresting two women for kissing. The progressive human rights visual media organization East Africa Visual Artists

Since the 1980s, microcredit has proven its effectiveness in empowering women economically, particularly through the model pioneered by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.

Under Uganda's anti-homosexuality law, they could face life in prison

Last year, reporting on what the U.S. anti-AIDS program PEPFAR had accomplished in Cameroon before it was defunded by the Trump administration, the U.S.

The Kenyan Court of Appeals on Jan. 23 overturned a ban on the film "Rafiki", which the Kenya Film Classification Board in 2018 had claimed promoted illegal

Nearly a year after the U.S. cut much of its health funding to Kenya as part of worldwide foreign aid cuts, Kenya's unpaid community health workers still

A new African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) report reveals how lesbian, bisexual, and queer women experience systematic violence that begins within families

Ramping up its anti-transgender campaign targeting U.S. citizens, the Trump administration has ordered U.S. embassies to issue reports on nations that allow

This article about Mauritania is one of a series of short articles on LGBTQ rights in nations with anti-gay laws.

In Cameroon, having a child is perceived as a social obligation, a condition of acceptance and respectability. But for queer people, this universal desire

In this article, LGBTQ rights journalist Rob Salerno, an editor for Erasing 76 Crimes, completes his surveys the status of LGBTQ rights and marriage equality

One of a series of updates about LGBTQ rights internationally, region by region

One of a series of updates about LGBTQ rights internationally, region by region

One of a series of updates about LGBTQ rights internationally, region by region

Five men arrested on homosexuality charges as they prepare for a fashion show in Senegal.

A bill to ban so-called LGBTQ propaganda won approval from the Kazakhstan Senate yesterday, which sent it on to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for his

While Uganda has been hailed as a model in the fight against HIV/AIDS, religious and faith driven homophobic attitudes towards LGBTQI+ persons have undermined

His counselor read and waited. What followed were days of sessions that peeled back years of fear and grief. Kenechukwu had grown up knowing he was gay, but

Ghana is close to enacting a harsh anti-LGBTQI+ law similar to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023, threatening the country's long-held reputation as

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Beaten unconscious by homophobic attackers in Nigeria, Sully was imprisoned because he couldn't pay a $620 bribe.