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Added on: 06/13/2021

The hopes and dreams of Africa’s queer activists

6/9/21

It took Dzoe Ahmad weeks of introspection and agonising over whether or not she was ready to share her story with the world. Ahmad, a young Zimbabwean…

Global News

Added on: 06/12/2021

Hungary: Reject Bill Banning Discussion of LGBT Issues

6/11/21

Hungary’s parliament should reject a bill that would prohibit discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation, and violates Hungary’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said today….

Global News

Added on: 06/12/2021

Ghana court grants bail to 21 LGBT+ activists

6/11/21

A high court in Ghana has granted bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, the prosecutor…

Global News

Added on: 06/10/2021

The church’s complicity in dehumanizing the LGBTQ community in Ghana

06/09/2021

The West African country of Ghana is one of the most homophobic countries in the world today. It not only refuses to recognize same-sex unions, but it…

Global News

Added on: 06/09/2021

LGBT activists denied bail in Ghana

06/08/2021

A Ghanaian court on Tuesday denied bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested nearly three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, their lawyer…

Global News

Added on: 06/08/2021

Uzbekistan: Top lawmaker calls for deporting the LGBT community en masse

06/07/2021

The head of one of Uzbekistan’s leading political parties has suggested depriving gays, lesbians and transgender people of citizenship and deporting them as a way of ending…

Global News

Added on: 06/06/2021

Ugandan court frees dozens of gay men on bail after days in jail

6/5/21

A court in Uganda granted bail on Friday to 39 people, most of them gay men, held for days after what police said was a raid on…

Global News

Added on: 06/05/2021

Ghana court delays bail decision for 21 detained LGBT+ activists

6/4/21

A Ghanaian court on Friday delayed its ruling on a bail application for 21 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) activists detained two weeks ago for an…

Global News

Added on: 06/04/2021

New bill won’t “discriminate”, Cook Islands government says

06/03/2021

Same sex rights groups are expressing guarded optimism after Government disclosed that work is underway to ensure new criminal legislation will not contain clauses that discriminate against…

Global News

Added on: 06/02/2021

LGBTQ life in Africa: Arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests

05/31/2021

The staggering pace of arrests of LGBTQ citizens continued today, as Uganda Police raided an LGBTQ shelter and detained 44 members of the LGBTQ community, repeating a…

Global News

Added on: 06/01/2021

Ugandan LGBTQ activists respond to government attempts to further criminalize homosexuality

05/31/2021

LGBTQ Ugandan activists are mobilizing against the Sexual Offenses Bill 2019 before Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs it into law. Members of Uganda’s Parliament caught LGBTQ Ugandan…

Global News

Added on: 06/01/2021

Dirco silent on homophobia row as SA embassy refuses to affirm gay rights in Poland

05/31/2021

For the past eight years, South African diplomats in Poland have signed an annual letter alongside other embassies affirming gay rights in one of the most homophobic…

Global News

Added on: 05/27/2021

Major donors urge Ghana to respect LGBT+ rights amid crackdown

05/25/2021

Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in…

Global News

Added on: 05/25/2021

No safe haven: gay and transgender Africans fleeing persecution at home attacked in refugee camps

05/24/2021

When Bijoux Ferrazza realised she was transgender, she took a good look around her. Transgender women are nowhere to be seen in Cameroon. Every once in a…

Global News

Added on: 05/24/2021

SENEGALESE RALLY TO CRIMINALISE HOMOSEXUALITY

05/23/2021

Several hundred protesters rallied Sunday in Dakar to demand that homosexuality be made a crime in Senegal, according to AFP journalists. It is not illegal to identify…

Global News

Added on: 05/24/2021

SOUTH AFRICA HIT BY A WAVE OF GAY AND TRANS HATE MURDERS

05/23/2021

A wave of brutal murders of gay men and trans women has hit South Africa. The death toll over the last three months has now reached at…

Global News

Added on: 05/22/2021

German authorities accused of revealing sexual orientation of asylum seekers

5/21/21

Lawyers working with the German Foreign Office have allegedly revealed the sexual identity of gay, lesbian and bisexual refugees to their home countries. The Lesbian and Gay…

Global News

Added on: 05/22/2021

Vietnam’s first openly gay candidate seeks change with parliament run

5/21/21

As an LGBTQ activist, legal whizz-kid and Vietnam’s first openly gay candidate running for a seat in its rubber-stamp parliament, Luong The Huy is determined to lead…

Global News

Added on: 05/21/2021

Outcast to icon: Peter Tatchell’s 50 years of LGBT+ activism

05/20/2021

Driven by passion and motivated by justice, veteran activist Peter Tatchell says LGBT+ equality remains elusive despite his 50-year campaign for gay rights in Britain and beyond….

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Added on: 05/21/2021

GAY ACTIVIST SHOT, SET ABLAZE IN BRAZIL

05/20/2021

The body of a 25-year-old teacher, Professor Lindolfo Kosmaski, who was active in his local LGBTQI community was found on April 30th, shot and burnt alive in…

World Voices

Added on: 05/19/2021

Daniel Martinovic – Rainbow Families, Croatia

Ryan Eakins

Alturi Contributor

Daniel Martinovic is an individual that shows the true fundamental qualities of friendship and advocacy. During 2015, he dove into LGBTI work when two of his friends,…

Global News

Added on: 05/19/2021

Singer Rufus Wainwright urges Americans to fight global LGBT+ threats

05/18/2021

As conservative states seek to limit transgender rights in the United States, double Grammy Award-nominated singer Rufus Wainwright said Americans should not forget the hardships faced by…

Global News

Added on: 05/18/2021

Lithuanian Gay League head calls for partnership law, special plan for LGBT people

05/17/2021

VILNIUS – Vladimir Simonko, head of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL), said on Monday that he expects the parliament to have the political will to pass a…

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Added on: 05/18/2021

Veteran lawyer Alice Nkom on fighting for LGBT rights in Cameroon

05/17/2021

To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we speak to Alice Nkom. She became Cameroon’s first female lawyer in her early 20s and now…

Global News

Added on: 05/17/2021

UK government to host its first global conference on LGBTQ+ rights

05/16/2021

The UK government’s first-ever global conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is to be hosted in London next year, as ministers race to fulfil pledges…

Global News

Added on: 05/16/2021

A card exempted a gay man from serving in Iran’s military. It may have cost him his life

5/15/21

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared’s future was brutally cut short last week when members of his family allegedly murdered him due to his sexual orientation, according to his partner and…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021

Fear breeds bravery as LGBT+ S.Africans resist ‘war on queerness’

5/13/21

Three months ago, Chippa Mohanoe’s fiancée was stabbed in the neck and killed in front of their neighbours in South Africa’s Sebokeng township. Every day since, Mohanoe…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/14/2021

Guatemala LGBTI: Discrimination and Migration

Alexander Champeau

Alturi Contributor

Guatemala: LGBTI Interaction with Society and State As Equaldex notes, LGBTI rights in Guatemala are, at least on paper, quite elevated. The site notes that “homosexual activity”…

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021

Cameroon Sentences Transgender Women to 5 Years in Prison

05/13/2021

Two transgender women were sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon this week after they were found guilty of “attempted homosexuality” and public indecency, the latest…

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021

Benin: Threat On Transgender People and Their Defenders Following Assault On Three of Them

05/13/2021

Authorities in Benin must immediately take all necessary measures to protect transgender people and the associations that defend them, after three transgender women were forced to undress,…