NIGERIA: COURT REJECTS STRAIGHT MAN’S ANTI-GAY LAW CHALLENGE
Nigeria’s Federal High Court in Abuja has thrown out an attempt to overturn the country’s new anti-gay law. Mike Enahoro Ebah, a UK-based straight Nigerian, challenged the constitutionality of the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act. The law, signed by President Goodluck Jonathan in January, outlaws any kind of same-sex relationships with imprisonment as well as criminalising […]
74-YEAR-OLD LESBIAN WINS RIGHT TO BE BURIED WITH WIFE
A 74-year-old American Navy veteran has won her battle to be laid to rest with her late wife at a veteran’s cemetery. Earlier this year, Madelynn Taylor was told that her request to be buried with her love of 17 years, Jean Mixner, was impossible because the state of Idaho, where the cemetery is located, […]
Motoring: VW Polo enhanced
The pace at which trends and technological developments sweep through the automotive world is truly astonishing. Environmental pressures, to be cleaner and more eco-friendly, have spawned numerous innovative ways of powering vehicles along. The way we do things is constantly reaching new levels of digitisation, meaning we need all our devices to work in harmony. […]
RELIEF AS UGANDA LGBT DUO AVOID LIFE IN JAIL
A Ugandan gay man and a trans woman are finally free after a Kampala court dismissed the charges against them due to lack of evidence. Kim Mukisa, 24, and Jackson Mukasa, 19, were arrested in January after Mukisa was thrown out of his house and beaten by a mob, which included local council authorities, over […]
LGBT JAMAICANS FACE “INTOLERABLE” LEVELS OF VIOLENCE
A new report has revealed that gay and lesbian Jamaicans live in constant fear of physical and sexual violence. Human Rights Watch said in the 86-page report, Not Safe at Home: Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT People in Jamaica, that they are taunted, threatened, fired from their jobs, thrown out of their homes, or worse: […]