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TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX GROUPS FORM PAN-AFRICAN ALLIANCE

Three African transgender and intersex rights advocacy organizations have formed an alliance to enhance the trans and intersex movement on the continent. Read the rest of this entry »

GLOBAL LGBT LEADERS URGE WESTERN COUNTRIES NOT TO TALK DOWN TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS ON GAY RIGHTS

Western nations have been asked not to “talk down” to governments in the rest of the world on the issue of gay rights. Read the rest of this entry »

VISITING EVANGELIST ASSURES UGANDA’S LGBTI “NOT ALL AMERICAN CHRISTIAN PREACHERS ARE ANTI-GAY”

A visiting American evangelist, Pastor Joseph Tolton, has criticised Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill saying the conservative US evangelicals who backed the legislation “have lost the moral and cultural war.” Read the rest of this entry »

US GOVERNMENT TEAM TO DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS WITH UGANDA’S MUSEVENI

The US deputy Secretary of State Ambassador William Burns, is leading a high profile delegation to Uganda Friday to discuss human rights with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Read the rest of this entry »

JAMAICAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO RECEIVE DAVID KATO VISION AND VOICE AWARD 2011 IN LONDON

Jamaican gay rights activist, Maurice Tomlinson, will on January 29 receive the David Kato Voice and Vision Award 2011 in honour of his work defending Jamaican homosexuals. Read the rest of this entry »

LGBTI ACTIVISTS IN HEARTFELT TRIBUTE TO UGANDA’S DAVID KATO AT REMEMBRANCE MASS

Gay rights activists in Uganda on Thursday paid tribute to murdered gay rights defender, David Kato, one year after his murder. Read the rest of this entry »

UGANDAN CHRISTIAN GROUP BANS CLERGY FROM MARRYING GAY COUPLES

The umbrella organization of Ugandan evangelical Christians, the Born Again Faith Federation, has told its clerics to refrain from marrying gay couples should government drop the infamous Anti Homosexuality Bill. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW DATE SET FOR BIAS RULING IN UGANDA HOMOPHOBIC SMEAR CASE

February 20 is the date when a court in Uganda will rule on whether the magistrate handling the homophobic smear conspiracy case against three Christian anti–gay preachers is biased against the accused. Read the rest of this entry »

THABO MBEKI’S PRO-GAY STATEMENT BOOSTS GAY RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN UGANDA

Former South African president, Thabo Mbeki has criticized Uganda’s anti homosexuality bill, saying sex between consenting adults “is really not the matter of law.” Read the rest of this entry »

UGANDA GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATE CALLS FOR SCRAPPING OF ANTI-PROSTITUTION LAWS

A Ugandan advocate for sex workers and homosexual rights, Busingye Kabumba has said prostitution and anti-abortion laws should be repealed to encourage the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young women. Read the rest of this entry »

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