2021 has had many ups and downs, advances and setbacks, wins and losses. As a community, African LGBTI+ people have had to fashion new ways to advance community safety in an environment of increasing neo-liberalization, state surveillance, and crackdowns. As the year dawned, there was a lot of optimism around putting an end to the…
In June of 2021, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms made headlines for signing an executive order into law that required public restrooms across the city to be gender inclusive. In a country where the conversation around inclusive bathrooms is controversial, this move was praised in many quarters as a commitment from the city to protect…
In commemoration of Non-Binary Awareness Week, Delani Okoye writes about what life is like for Non-Binary people who reside in Nigeria. In the past month, conversations have travelled all over the internet on the topic of gender, sexuality and sex. A lot of these conversations were sparked by tweets made by J.K Rowling on gender-affirming…
It is a busy Sunday afternoon, and while most churches in Nairobi are wrapping up their Sunday service, the Cosmopolitan Affirming Community is about to start theirs. This is not your typical Sunday service. It is a fellowship of people of faith who are a part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in…
In Celebration of Pride Month, we are pleased to announce that Kenyan LGBT activist Kevin Mwachiro is our Pride Month Personality for 2019. In this feature, The Rustin Times’ Editor-in-Chief, Harry Itie, speaks to him about his journey as an activist and the importance of using the media as a tool to bring about social…
‘Coming out’ stories have helped propel gay rights issues internationally as we’ve seen in the case of Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Jodie Forster, Frank Ocean and many others. Even though there are a lot of inspiring stories in the community, celebrity coming out stories make more impact because they bring more focus to the issues….
Nigerian Journalist, PETER OKEUGO reports that in their search for safety and protection, these Gay and Transgender refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma Camp fled homophobic attacks in Uganda, only to meet doom in what should be a safe haven. This report is a follow up to Emmanuel Sadi’s interview with Tobias Pellicciari on the situation of LGBT…
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