In March 2020, The Uganda Police Force invaded an LGBTQ+ shelter outside of Kampala arrested 20 LGBTQ+ persons in an LGBTQ+ shelter for violating social distancing rules. According to a previous report, the 20 LGBTQ+ persons were made up of 14 gay men, 2 bisexual men, and 4 transgender women. According to a police statement, they…
NorthEastern country, Sudan, is one of the African countries popular for its notorious and extreme punishments for homosexuality. According to the Sodomy Article 148 of the Penal Code 1991, gay sex is punishable by flogging and death. That law, however, has now been changed. According to LGBT+ rights organisation, Bedayaa, the country has revisited the…
In a conversation with The Rustin Times, Nigerian Screenwriter and Director, Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim said: “I wanted to write a love story with queer characters… I really wanted to see two black women together in love and living normal lives.” Queer people have not had a fair shot at representation all over the world. That’s a…
Social media platform, Instagram has announced, on Friday, that any content — either pictures or videos — promoting conversion therapy will be banned. The service owned by Facebook did this in line with a move to “expand its existing policies on hate speech worldwide to include posts that advertise or promote the practice,” CNN reports….
Global Black Gay Men Connect (GBGMC) in collaboration with hosted a virtual pride event in honour of the global Black LGBTQ+ community. The founder of GBGMC, Michael Ighodaro, a Nigerian, tells TimeOut, “This space has always been led by white gay male individuals, so we feel like it’s time for us as a group to…
It’s like the rite of passage into the LGBTQ+ experience, conversion therapy. According to the Human Rights Commission, 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 identity or expression. On Wednesday 8th July 2020, A United Nations…
53-year-old Halle Berry is not a newcomer in the entertainment industry. Halle Berry is an award-winning actor who has starred in popular movies: Kingsman: The Golden Circle, John Wick, X-men, Catwoman and many others. On Friday, 3rd of July, in an Instagram live chat, Halle Berry mentioned that she had been preparing for a role…
In August 2019, Adriaan van Klinken, a Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds. released his book titled “Kenyan Christian Queer.” The focus of the book was to interrogate, complicate and nuance popular narratives that cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as…
When we went live with The Rustin Times in 2017, the goal was to tell authentic stories of the LGBTQ experience across the African continent. “I was on a flight to Nairobi to attend a training with activists from Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda. I hadn’t done much advocacy, but I was desperate to start. I…
According to a news report on Reuters, Lawmakers in Gabon’s lower house of parliament, yesterday, voted to decriminalize homosexuality. Gabon is a country in Central Africa. By voting to decriminalize homosexuality, the country is joining the few African countries who have put an end to anti-LGBT laws. The win was unanimous in favour of decriminalizing…
It’s been over 3 months since the coronavirus pandemic upended the lives of everyone across the world. This why several LGBT organisations in over 500 cites of the world have moved Pride celebrations, a month-long list of events to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, a pivotal moment in modern LGBTQ social…
According to a recent report on News 24, the government of The Gambia said on Tuesday that it would neither decriminalise homosexuality nor review its anti-homosexuality laws. The government of The Gambia said this via a statement as a response to widely circulated rumours of plans to soften homosexuality laws, and after weeks of pressure…
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