eGAYlity - Africa

LGBT Rights: The 2013 ?Hall of Shame? - Thomson Reuters Foundation

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:10:17 PDT

LGBT Rights: The 2013 ?Hall of Shame? - Thomson Reuters Foundation: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), for attempting to export homophobia to Africa. Founded in 1990 by the Baptist Minister and televangelist Pat Robertson, and headed by Jay Sekulow, its chief counsel, the ACLJ strongly opposes LGBT ...

First openly Gay ordained Bishop to speak

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:10:17 PDT

First openly Gay ordained Bishop to speak: He is the co-author of three AIDS education curricula for youth and adults, and has done AIDS work in the United States and in Africa (Uganda and South Africa). Bishop Robinson was invited by Barack Obama to give the invocation at the opening inaugural ...

Terrence Higgins Trust unveils It Starts With Me HIV campaign video ...

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:54:02 PDT

Terrence Higgins Trust unveils It Starts With Me HIV campaign video ...: Terrence Higgins Trust has released a short video clip outlining the science behind It Starts With Me, HIV Prevention England's new campaign for gay and bisexual men.

Resilience Amidst Adversity: Being gay and African in the new century

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:38:32 PDT

Resilience Amidst Adversity: Being gay and African in the new century: Commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation, this report gives an overview of what it means to be gay and African in the early part ...

Asia | Africa | العالم العربي (AR) | Stigmabase | EGAYLiTY

Frank Bwalya Backs Gays

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:38:32 PDT

Frank Bwalya Backs Gays: Johannesburg — CATHOLIC priest-cum-politician Frank Bwalya has publicly supported gay marriages and says he would not arrest those practising homosexuality if he was elected President. Father Bwalya said he would respect homosexuals, claiming this ...

HIV Among Black/African-American Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have ...

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:25:01 PDT

HIV Among Black/African-American Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have ...:

Among MSM, black/African American MSM -- especially young black/African American MSM -- are at highest risk of HIV. In 2010, black/African American MSM accounted for almost as many new HIV infections as white MSM, despite their differences in ...

TheBody.com

LGBT Philanthropy Tour Encourages Support of Southern Africa

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:25:03 PDT

LGBT Philanthropy Tour Encourages Support of Southern Africa:

Cole, along with 17 other European and U.S. LGBT philanthropists – including San Franciscans Tracy Gary and her partner Inka von Sternenfels – participated in a first-of-its-kind donor trip to South Africa focused on LGBT issues in January. The trip ...

PQ Monthly (blog)

Italian educator working in North Africa deported for being gay

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:25:03 PDT

Italian educator working in North Africa deported for being gay:

An Italian teacher working in the North African country of Eritrea has been deported for his sexuality. The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) reported that Paolo Mannina was working as a literature professor in an Italian school located ...

Gay Star News

Out in Africa: LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:25:03 PDT

Out in Africa: LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa: In recent years, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights have prompted vigorous political contestation in polities across sub-Saharan Africa.

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Zambia Could Become The Next Uganda On LGBT Rights - BuzzFeed

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:25:03 PDT

Zambia Could Become The Next Uganda On LGBT Rights - BuzzFeed:

Zambia Could Become The Next Uganda On LGBT Rights. The situation for LGBT people in the southern African country has rapidly deteriorated in the past month. “At this point, we need all the help that we can get from the international community,” an ...

BuzzFeed

World embraces homosexuality

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:36:02 PDT

World embraces homosexuality:

In some 75 countries, including most of Africa and the Middle East, homosexuality remains a crime -- and decriminalisation, not marriage, is the number-one objective for LGBT campaigners. Nigeria, for instance, is considering a law that would imprison ...

iAfrica.com

South African judge living with HIV calls for change

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:36:02 PDT

South African judge living with HIV calls for change: A pioneering judge and activist from South Africa says the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS continues in Africa, despite advances in treatment. Justice Edwin Cameron is South Africa's only openly gay and HIV-positive judge. He went public and revealed ...

Secunda Highveld Christian School Tells Lesbian Couple to Divorce or Son Will ...

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:34:47 PDT

Secunda Highveld Christian School Tells Lesbian Couple to Divorce or Son Will ...

A married South African lesbian couple was reportedly told to split-up or their son would face expulsion from his Christian school. Secunda Highveld Christian School's pastor claimed that their homosexuality was “problematic” and that the couple had ...

Gay Zambia couple deny sodomy

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:34:47 PDT

Gay Zambia couple deny sodomy: Philip Mubiana, 21, and James Mwape, 20, were charged with having sexual relations between 11 and 25 April, after the first known arrest of a gay couple in the southern African country. "I understand the charge and I plead not guilty," the court ...

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Zimbabwe Organization Working to Ban Gay Groups

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:34:46 PDT

Zimbabwe Organization Working to Ban Gay Groups:

A local and influential group called Africa Against Western Influence and Interference is working to ban gay and lesbian groups Zimbabwe claiming that LGBT organizations' work is “unconstititonal and un-African.” The group's leader, Makhosini Khumalo, ...

Passport Magazine (blog)

A call to help gays and lesbians in Africa

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:34:46 PDT

A call to help gays and lesbians in Africa: We have met and worked with hundreds of Africans on the frontlines of the "helping professions." We have met only one openly gay Ethiopian (who fled to Finland) and, just last year, one openly gay Tanzanian who stayed home to fight. It is about that ...

Zimbabwe Organization Working to Ban Gay Groups

Thu, 09 May 2013 04:51:32 PDT

Zimbabwe Organization Working to Ban Gay Groups:

A local and influential group called Africa Against Western Influence and Interference is working to ban gay and lesbian groups Zimbabwe claiming that LGBT organizations' work is “unconstititonal and un-African.” The group's leader, Makhosini Khumalo, ...

Passport Magazine (blog)

Zambia: Arrest of gay men called 'blatant violation of universal human rights'

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:28:02 PDT

Zambia: Arrest of gay men called 'blatant violation of universal human rights'

A report on All Africa.com has an analysis of the arrest of two men in Zambia for being in a same-sex relationship. Writes Richard Lee: It is a shocking turn of events – but sadly not surprising. Zambia's record on human rights has taken a hammering in ...

DJ Mister Cee tries to slide Haiti in with gay prostitution questions - Defend ...

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:48 PDT

DJ Mister Cee tries to slide Haiti in with gay prostitution questions - Defend ...:

NEW YORK, USA (defend.ht/zoe) - Listeners of Hot 97 took to twitter Monday morning upset that DJ Mister Cee, Calvin Lebrun, would dodge a question asked by Hot 97's Ebro about whether he was gay by invoking Haiti and the tragic earthquake of 2010.

Defend Haiti

Take Me Out: First LGBT Sports Hall Of Fame Set For Chicago

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:48 PDT

Take Me Out: First LGBT Sports Hall Of Fame Set For Chicago: It's a good day to be a sports fan in Chicago, where officials just announced plans for the first hall of fame dedicated to LGBT athletes. “All the hall of fames have a special section in there for women or for African-Americans, no one has a section ...

From Congo to South Africa: One man's struggle against homophobia

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:48 PDT

From Congo to South Africa: One man's struggle against homophobia: “I arrived in South Africa in January 2010. The situation in my country was terrible. I was under threat from both family and society. I fled. I had read about South Africa having the best constitution protecting LGBT rights and I [thought] I would be ...

Oprah Asks Jason Collins About the "Stigma" of Being a Gay African-American

Tue, 07 May 2013 04:51:04 PDT

Oprah Asks Jason Collins About the "Stigma" of Being a Gay African-American: Being the first active male athlete in one of the major professional sports to come out was a pretty big hurdle in itself, according to Jason Collins, who revealed that he's gay in an essay for Sports Illustrated last week. But doing so as an African ...

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Zambia arrests gay couple

Tue, 07 May 2013 04:51:04 PDT

Zambia arrests gay couple:

Last month, another rights activist, Paul Kasonkomona, was arrested for appearing on live television calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in this deeply conservative southern African state. Homosexuality is also forbidden in many other ...

Independent Online

South African judge living with HIV says stigma continues

Tue, 07 May 2013 04:51:04 PDT

South African judge living with HIV says stigma continues: Justice Edwin Cameron is South Africa's only openly gay and HIV positive judge. He went public and revealed his HIV status in 1999, and was an outspoken advocate for the provision of lifesaving medication when the South African government refused to ...

Asia | Africa | العالم العربي (AR) | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

US gays' ultimate choice: For love or your country

Tue, 07 May 2013 04:51:03 PDT

US gays' ultimate choice: For love or your country:

For gay Americans in relationships with foreigners, this can force an often agonising choice between one's country and one's partner. As a result, little colonies of 'love exiles' have set up all over the world in gay-friendly countries, and South ...

Daily Maverick