Now Tanzania also ends vital HIV programmes targeting gay men
Tanzania’s embarrassing excuse for a health ministry has announced that it has blocked HIV programmes targeting men who have sex with men. “We have suspended MSM (men who have sex with men) community-based interventions pending (a) review,” Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. According to Reuters, she justified the move by claiming […]
Kissing teen girls arrested for homosexuality in Morocco
Morocco’s criminalisation of homosexuality has notched up yet more victims; this time a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old girl. According to local media, the teens were arrested by police after they were seen kissing one another in a house in the city of Marrakesh on 26 October. A cousin videoed the girls kissing and showed it […]
Number of LGBTQ characters hit record high on US TV
American television shows are including more LGBTQ characters than ever before, but lesbian and bisexual female characters continue to be arbitrarily killed off. LGBTQ media advocacy GLAAD’s latest annual report, released on Thursday, found that 4.8% of the 895 regular characters in the 2016-2017 TV season (including broadcast and cable networks and streaming services) are […]