NIGERIA: AIDS AGENCY REJECTS GAY LAW CONCERNS
Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has dismissed concerns that the country’s recently signed anti-gay law will impact on providing HIV services to men who have sex with men (MSM). “A perusal of the Same Sex Marriage Act 2013, makes clear that the provisions thereof do not have any negative effect on the […]
MOB ATTACKS GAY RIGHTS GROUP OFFICES
A group of around 200 people have attacked the offices of the Ivory Coast’s leading LGBT rights group. The mob broke windows and ransacked and robbed the headquarters of the Alternative Cote d’Ivoire organisation in Abidjan on Saturday. According to AP, trash was strewn around the premises and thugs placed signs on the walls that […]
MAMPHELA RAMPHELE IS DA’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
The upcoming national elections are shaping up to be a milestone event for South Africa. Mamphela Ramphele, the gay-affirming head of the Agang political party, has confirmed that she will stand as the DA’s Presidential Candidate for the 2014 elections. She, together with DA leader Helen Zille, made the announcement at a news conference in […]
UGANDAN PRESIDENT TO CONSULT SCIENTISTS ON GAYS
Earlier reports that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni had refused to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed by Parliament in December could be premature. He may still do so – if he can’t be given scientific proof that homosexuality is “normal”. According to the Ugandan media, Museveni is planning to consult scientists to prove to him that […]
EUROPE FINALLY FREE AS N. CYPRUS UNBANS GAY SEX
Northern Cyprus, the last part of Europe in which homosexuality remained illegal, has finally repealed its ban on gay sex. On Monday, lawmakers voted to abolish the criminalisation of homosexuality which carried a penalty of imprisonment for five years. “We can finally call Europe a continent completely free from laws criminalising homosexuality,” commented ILGA-Europe’s Executive Board Co-Chair Paulo Côrte-Real, […]
JOBURG “RAGES” AGAINST ANTI GAY LAWS
Activists staged a “day of rage” protest against anti-gay laws in India, Nigeria and Uganda in Johannesburg on Sunday. The demonstration was held outside the Indian Consulate and saw around 50 protesters voicing their anger at international state homophobia. The event was held to coincide with India’s Republic Day and highlighted that country’s recent Supreme […]
GROWING LGBT ANGER AT COKE’S HYPOCRISY
Anger at Coca-Cola’s cynical efforts to target the gay market while refusing to take a stand against Russian homophobia is spilling over within the global LGBT community. The company, which is one of the main sponsors of the Sochi Olympic Winter Games in Russia next month, has continued to reject calls by LGBT activists for […]
GALZ SLAMS ARREST OF TRANS WOMAN
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has expressed its outrage at the arrest and planned trial of Ricky Nathanson, a transgender woman in Bulawayo, for using a women’s toilet. On 16 January, a group of young men – described as Zanu PF youth – made a citizen’s arrests when Nathanson used the female bathroom at […]
REPORT: GAY NIGERIANS FLOOD EMBASSIES
Nigeria’s new extreme anti-gay law appears to be leading to panic within the country’s LGBT community. It’s being claimed that some foreign embassies in Lagos are being flooded by desperate gay and lesbian Nigerians seeking asylum. According to the CAJ News Agency, foreign embassies in the country’s largest city, particularly those of the US, UK, […]
TOP INDIAN PSYCHIATRIST: GAYS CAN BE CURED
A leading Indian psychiatrist has caused a stir after claiming that homosexuality is unnatural and can be cured. Dr Indira Sharma, a lecturer at Banaras Hindu University and the President of the Indian Psychiatric Society, made her outdated and widely discredited views known at the body’s recent annual meeting. She later repeated her statements to […]