Steven Kabuye has been stabbed and is a critical condition (@SteveKabuye5 on X/Twitter) An LGBTQ+ activist working in Uganda in the wake of the country’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill, has been left in a critical condition after being stabbed. Steven Kabuye, a prominent LGBTQ+ rights activist in the East African nation, was attacked by two men
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Burundi’s president Evariste Ndayishimiye said LGBTQ+ people should be ‘put in a stadium and stoned’ in a hateful speech. (Getty) Burundi’s president Evariste Ndayishimiye said that queer people in the east African nation ‘should be stoned’ amid a virulent anti-LGBTQ+ tirade. Ndayishimiye, who has led Burundi since 2020, lashed out against LGBTQ+ rights in a
Tennis star Martina Navratilova (right) has reacted to Republican Congressman Tim Walberg’s speech in support of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality death penalty law. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto/ Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Lesbian tennis legend Martina Navratilova has reacted in the perfect way to Republican Tim Walberg’s cruel support of Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law. Navratilova spoke out on
Ugandan officials accuse US of pushing “LGBT agenda”. (Getty Images) Uganda has condemned the United States and accused them of trying to push an “LGBT agenda” in Africa after Washington announced new sanctions against Ugandan officials. The US confirmed on Monday (4 December) that they would expend visa restrictions on Ugandan officials that it deems
When he made the tough choice to flee Uganda, in the wake of the country’s draconian anti-LGBTQ+ law being passed, activist Henry Mukiibi thought: “What have I left behind?” Mukiibi, the executive director of LGBTQ+ group Uganda’s Children of the Sun Foundation (COSF), has been on the run and living in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,
The teacher allegedly made fun of the child over his sexuality. (Stock photo via Getty) A ninth grader in South Africa has died by suicide at around 14 years old, with media reports suggesting he was mocked by his teacher over his sexuality. According to Eyewitness News, the education department in Gauteng, South Africa’s smallest
The LGBTQ+ community is under attack. (Credit: Ochieng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Arbitrary arrests, blatant bigotry and unlawful detentions are an everyday occurrence for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana – but activists are fighting back. Warning – violence. On 20 May, 2021, Ghanaian police raided an LGBTQ+ human rights training workshop in the Ho, Volta region of the
Mildred Loic, also known as Shakiro, one of the trans women currently held in jail (Facebook/ Shakiro) Two trans women in the central African country of Cameroon are facing five years in prison on charges of “attempted homosexuality”. Mildred Loic and Moute Rolland were arrested for wearing women’s clothes in the country’s largest city, Douala,
Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, branded LGBT+ people as “deviants”. (Jack Taylor/Getty) The incumbent president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has won his sixth consecutive term after an election campaign marred by aggressive homophobic rhetoric. On Saturday (16 January) Museveni was once again declared the winner of the presidential election with 58.64 percent of the vote.
Simon Lokodo, Uganda’s minister of ethics, has long positioned himself as a moral crusader. (Facebook) Simon Lokodo, Uganda’s Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity who vehemently lobbied for the death penalty for gay sex for years, was unseated Saturday (September 5) and is no longer a member of the Parliament of Uganda. In the heated
Queer men are more likely to be living with HIV in African countries that criminalise gay sex than those that do not, researchers have said. Johns Hopkins University researchers found that men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan African nations where gay sex with is severely criminalised are at up to five times
A court order was issued for the LGBT+ Ugandans’ immediate release (image supplied) 19 LGBT+ Ugandans who were arrested, whipped and interrogated under “bogus” coronavirus charges have been released following sustained pressure from human rights groups. Their release was ordered by a Ugandan court on Monday (May 18) after public prosecutors were forced to withdraw