Turkey's anti-LGBT crackdown expands; activists fight back

As Turkiye (Turkey) expanded its attacks on the LGBT community, human rights activists countered last week with protests in Istanbul and Izmir, and now an

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A third of LGBTQ groups say 2025's drastic cuts will force them to close

Ninety percent of the world's LGBTQ and intersex rights groups that were surveyed have lost funding since Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president in

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Turkey: 162 targeted in anti-LGBTQ+ raids

Government of Turkey blocks LGBTQ+ websites and social media accounts

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Sierra Leone: Anti-LGBT+ police raid last night at a private party in Freetown

According to the executive director of Pride Equity—an organization advocating for the rights of the LGBT+ community in Sierra Leone with Hispanic roots—who witnessed the incident, about ten police of...

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Cameroon: Freed from prison, 3 women go into business -- with readers' help

Donations are still needed to free more innocent prisoners in Cameroon and support the Qtalk counseling service for gay Nigerians. Your donation will be

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Cameroon's LGBTI community in peril as leaders flee

The LGBTI community in Cameroon is experiencing an unprecedented crisis caused by the departure of many leaders, and cuts to funding.

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Messed-up map shows U.S. regime doesn't know or care where it's killing millions

Now its depths of carelessness and ignorance have come into view, as the U.S. team at the International AIDS Conference presented a map of Africa that looked

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Generous readers set free 3 women imprisoned for homosexuality in Cameroon

More donations are needed to help innocent victims of homophobia in Cameroon and Nigeria

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Double your donation to set free innocent LGBT prisoners

3 LGBT prisoners have been released; 5 others await further donations.

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Please help free Chidi, an innocent victim of a Nigerian blackmailer

Donations are urgently needed to free eight prisoners, including Chidi, whose story is below. For their safety, in this series of articles the prisoners are

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Who is behind the arrest of 100s of LGBTQ people in Senegal?

On Friday, June 12, six new arrests took place in Linguère in central Senegal, as part of investigations linked to the May 15 arrest of Matar Ndiaga Seck for

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Homosexuality is now illegal in 66 nations

In adopting an anti-gay law on June 11, 2026, the West African nation of Niger strengthened a wave of anti-homosexuality legislation and proposed legislation

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Slow pace of donations leaves 5 innocent LGBTI prisoners stuck in cells

More donations are urgently needed to free five innocent LGBTI prisoners.

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Ghana legislators aim to pass anti-gay bill before June 3 anti-gay conference

The LGBTQ advocacy group Rightify Ghana states:

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Ghana event seeks declaration that Africa's 'cultural identity' is anti-gay

The largely anti-LGBTQ parliament of Ghana will play host next week to anti-LGBTQ officials   from throughout Africa with the goal of eliminating LGBTQ rights

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African and global figures by the dozens urge Senegal to talk, not enforce anti-gay law

They seek collective reflection and constructive dialogue in Senegal instead of repression.

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Prominent Senegal citizens fall victim to anti-gay sweep

Senegal's anti-LGBTQ witch hunt racks up more than 100 arrests

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We have freed 56 LGBTQ prisoners. We need help to free 8 more

Those eight imprisoned victims of anti-LGBTQ hostility and homophobia are the focus of this year’s Project Not Alone, which expands on the project’s previous

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Under new extremism laws, LGBTQ Russians must fight to survive

Natalia Soloviova always knew she was putting herself at risk. As the chair of the Russian LGBT Network, the largest queer advocacy group in the country, she

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Cameroon's LGBTQI community mourns the loss of transgender pioneer Doloresse

The Cameroonian transgender community is in mourning. Doloresse, an emblematic figure of trans visibility in Cameroon, was found with her throat slit on the

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Young man agrees to sex act for $3.57, instead gets 6 years in Senegal prison

Under Senegal's harsh new anti-homosexuality law, the first defendant has been convicted and sentenced to six years in prison, SeneNews reported. Below is

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Ghana's president plays a double game on anti-LGBTQ bill

In Ghana, he vows to sign cruel anti-LGBTQ bill. In the U.S., he's evasive.

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Uganda: Two women yanked back into prison for kissing

In Uganda, their 'crime' is punishable by life imprisonment

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Mass.-based U.S. ‘pro-family’ group pushed Senegal's anti-LGBTQ+ law

In Senegal, MassResistance moves beyond its anti-trans, anti-drag activism in the U.S.

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Uganda releases two women arrested for kissing

Ugandan police have backed off after arresting two women for kissing. The progressive human rights visual media organization East Africa Visual Artists

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Microcredit and LGBT+ inclusion: Urgent need for innovation in economic aid

Since the 1980s, microcredit has proven its effectiveness in empowering women economically, particularly through the model pioneered by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.

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Ugandan police arrest 2 women for kissing in public

Under Uganda's anti-homosexuality law, they could face life in prison

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A year later: End of US PEPFAR leaves Cameroon HIV programs in critical condition

Last year, reporting on what the U.S. anti-AIDS program PEPFAR had accomplished in Cameroon before it was defunded by the Trump administration, the U.S.

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