Art Attack, has superseded all the limitations that come with being an LGBTI identifying individual especially in Africa. He, this week, released the video of his single titled SAME LOVE and as expected, it has tongues wagging.
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On 12th February 2016, Uganda Cares joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Condom Day under the theme “Wrap Your Love”. The event brought together more than 500 members from the key affected population groups i.e. male and female commercial sex workers, lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender persons.
A senior judge in Malawi has purportedly ordered the country’s anti-gay law back into force. The country’s government, which is heavily reliant on support from NGOs and Western aid money, had previously confirmed that it would no longer arrest people for same sex relations.
A Kenyan teacher in his 20’s has landed himself in hot soup after he made the grave mistake of using social media as a platform to find love.
The 33rd Annual Global Convention of the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association will be the first LGBT business conference of its kind on the African continent.
And Still We Rise is a moving documentary on resistance to the Anti-Homosexual Act (AHA) in Uganda. The film follows Richard Lusimbo, the researcher & documentation manager for Sexual Minorities Uganda, as he documents the struggle against the AHA. The story weaves together a history of the AHA, with personal stories recounting the widespread repression following passage of […]
Following the announcement that India’s Supreme Court will consider lifting the ban on gay sex, the Indian government has been urged to formally declare its support for the rights of LGBT people.
The US’s first ever special envoy for LGBT rights has said there are “seeds of hope” in Southern African countries for sexual and gender minorities. The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that Randy Berry made these remarks after a 10-day visit to Malawi, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.
A woman identified as Prose Namwebe was this week arrested by police in Bukomansimbi and charged with unnatural offences. Namwebe was arrested after being found with Madina Namusoke, a daughter to Hajji Ssekamate.
Children in the UK have been asked to describe their gender from a list of more than 20 different options in a new survey. Youngsters aged from 13 to 18 were asked to select from 25 choices, including “gender fluid”, “genderqueer” and “non-binary”.