According to reports by LGBT Rights Ghana, the Ghana Police Force arrested 22 LGBTQ+ persons at a gathering over the weekend. The arrest was carried out, reports by African Equality Centre say, after Chief of Kwahu Obomeng, Eastern region of Ghana, and Elders alerted the police about a rumoured “lesbian wedding”, which attendees of the…
Nigeria’s Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA) is not foreign to LGBTQ+ Nigerians. Passed into law in January 2014 by former President Goodluck Jonathan, the bill authorizes consequences of up to 14 years in prison for gay persons and their allies. “The notional purpose of the SSMPA is to prohibit marriage between persons of the same…
The Evangelical Alliance, the oldest and largest evangelical unity coalition in the UK, has written a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him not to ban conversion therapy. Conversion therapy, sometimes known as “reparative therapy,” is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender…
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the “Lammys”, is a yearly award given by the Lambda Literary Foundation (based in the United States) to published works that celebrate or explore sexuality, gender, social justice in literature and the arts. Now in its 32nd edition, the Lambda award honours outstanding work in various categories — Lesbian…
Some LGBT persons like to pride themselves by saying “I have so and so persons who know about my sexuality and they are absolutely okay with it.” Fine. Absolutely fine. For most, it becomes exquisitely comfortable to find that some aspect of their lives has become accepted by someone else. I mean, there is a…
Based on reports from MyInfoGh, the newly opened LGBTQ community space in Ghana has now been shut down based on orders by the president, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo. A combined team of heavily armed police accompanied by armed National Security officials reportedly stormed the LGBTQ building and ordered all operations and activities ceased immediately with occupants…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), on Wednesday, issued its ruling on Section 76 – 79 of Jamaica’s 1864 Offenses Against the Person Act. Categorised under “Unnatural Crime“, Proof of ‘Carnal Knowledge’, and ‘Outrages of Decency’, the colonial-era law condemns violators to up to 10 years imprisonment, which may include hard labour. The ruling…
The Initiative for Equality and Non-Discrimination (INEND), a local not-for-profit organisation that champions equality and inclusion in Kenya, recently released an anthology of stories by Queer Kenyans. “Roses are red, violets are blue, we are excited to share with you this beautiful Anthology by Queer Kenyans highlighting the different digital dating realities for Queer people,”…
On the 20th of January, Bolu Okupe, son of former presidential aide, Dr Doyin Okupe, came out as gay. “Yes, I’m Gay AF 🌈🌈🌈,” he captioned his Instagram post — a picture of him in rainbow-coloured shorts, holding a rainbow banner. In a recent interview with Team Rayceen Productions and The Rustin Times, Bolu Okupe…
For the past 2 years, K Bailey Obazee has been nurturing her passion for storytelling and Black literature to build a platform for her community. It all started with monthly book club link ups which allowed Black queer people to breathe, share, connect and be inspired by words and more importantly each other. After much…
President of the United States, Joe Biden, has quickly launched a campaign to support LGBTIQ people abroad, putting their rights higher on the US foreign policy agenda than ever before, AFP reports. In his first foreign policy speech on Thursday, Joe Biden announced that he was ordering all US government agencies active abroad to promote…
To kick off the new year, African Queer Youth Initiative, an organisation with the mission to equip and support African Youth with tools and resources to advocate for their rights, recently released a report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on LGBT+ youths in Africa. Since its founding in 2015, the African Queer Youth…
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