Introduction At 28 years old, Keme* has dedicated six years to full-time employment, yet the ability to envision a future remains elusive. The prospect of saving for anything beyond rent seems unattainable, with all financial resources dedicated to daily survival. Often resorting to loans to navigate the month, Keme’s struggles are reflective of a broader…
Introduction Leaving Nigeria was an imperative decision influenced by various elements, yet it was homophobia that served as its core. In my home country, being queer meant concealing my identity beneath layers of fear. Nigeria’s societal fabric wasn’t woven to embrace differences like mine so I always felt stifled. Everyday was shadowed by a looming…
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…
The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, has announced that he has no definitive stance on same-sex marriage and will allow the citizens to determine whether the country should legalise it or not. The Presidential press secretary Brian Banda made this announcement to the media during the Weekly Brief at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre on Monday….
Recent reports by the Human Rights Watch have revealed that security officials in Egypt are using dating apps to entrap LGBTQ+ persons. The research and advocacy NGO group accused security officers of Egypt’s National Security Agency of randomly picking up individuals off the streets based on suspicion of their sexuality or gender expression and detaining them…
The Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival is an image of what it means to flourish in the middle of homophobia. The Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival is an annual film festival in Tunisia, which kicked off in 2018 to celebrate Tunisia’s LGBT communities. The festival, the first queer film festival in the country and all of North…
On July 15, advocates and activists from all over Cameroon gathered together for the sixth annual Human Rights Defenders Day. The event is organised annually as a protest against violence and persistent abuses of human rights in Cameroon, and a commemoration of the assassination of Eric Ohena Lembembe, the executive director of the LGBT advocacy…
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…
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…
In November last year, a high court in the capital of Zambia, Lusaka sentenced two men — Japhet Chataba (39) and Steven Samba (31) to prison for 15 years for having gay sex. According to the report on the BBC, a worker who had peeped into their room through an open window in the lodge…
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