A U.S. government employee, who was also the editor of an LGBT magazine in Bangladesh, was hacked to death Monday in the capital of Dhaka, officials said. A group of assailants stormed the home of Xulhaz Mannan, a staffer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, stabbing him and a friend to death. Mannan was a senior editor of Roopbaan, the first gay rights magazine in the country.
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Corro Allegro a Boston based LGBT Choir together with Spectrum Uganda and Refuge Point has organized a fundraiser dinner for Ugandan LGBTI refugees in Kenya. The dinner to be held on Saturday May 14th 2016 is set to begin at 7pm at Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St, Boston Massachusetts.
The Vice President of Shams Association, an LGBTI organization based in Tunisia has penned a statement calling for the international community and government to intervene in the smear campaign against the country’s sexual and gender minority population.
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) last week launched their latest publication titled ‘And That’s how I survived being Killed’ a booklet put together with the help of their partners ICE Breakers Uganda, Spectrum Uganda and Rainbow Health Foundation Mbarara.
South Africa’s health system has welcomed the much-anticipated launch of a publication that responds to the urgent need to address HIV among transgender people.
The document, entitled ‘Implementing comprehensive HIV and STI programmes with Transgender people’, represents an international collaboration between donor groups, policy makers and implementing organisations.
Chris Mubiru, who was last year in September sentenced to ten years imprisonment for haing ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature’ was yesterday released after Justice Wilson Musalu Munene cleared him of all charges on grounds that the video on which his conviction was based had not been tendered to court.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be looking at the history of the world’s LGBTI movement down to how international events led to the start of all the global movements as they are known to date. However, to fully understand how the movement was established, it is essential to also focus on the other aspects that greatly contributed to its growth ie culture, society and literature, religion and art.
“If I stand here in my true authentic self, it means I stand here and am able to talk about race without having to leave my gender at the door. I stand here and talk about gender without having to leave my sexual orientation at the door. I stand here being a lesbian – part of the lesbian gay bisexual queer and intersex (LGBTQI) family – without having to leave a hidden disability at the door.
Dr Stella Nyanzi, a renowned researcher at Makerere University, earlier today shocked the nation as she undressed and bore all while protesting unfair treatment and being thrown out of her office by the Director Makerere Institute of Social Research Mahmood Mamdani.