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LGBT History Month profile: South African activist Simon Nkoli
Simon Nkoli was a South African anti-apartheid, gay rights and AIDS activist. He is recognized as the founder of South Africa’s black gay movement.
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LGBT History Month profile: South African activist Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat is a South African activist whose work has focused on people living with HIV/AIDS, the gay community and combating apartheid. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and a recipient of the Desmond Tutu Leadership Award and the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.
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Gambia president to United Nations: Homosexuality top global threat
UNITED NATIONS — The president of Gambia is using his address to the United Nations General Assembly to attack gays and lesbians, calling homosexuality one of the three “biggest threats to human existence.”
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Scott Lively’s war on gays spans the U.S. to Uganda, Russia and beyond
Ask any LGBT rights activist to name the one person that they would pick as the community’s arch-nemesis, and the likely answer would be Scott Lively, a Springfield, Mass., evangelical pastor and part-time coffeehouse barista.
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Nigerian student claims he’s discovered ‘scientific proof’ gay marriage is wrong
A post-graduate student at the University of Lagos in Nigeria claims he has made a scientific “breakthrough” by proving that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are wrong.
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Senegal Justice Minister: Law criminalizing homosexuality here to stay
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s new Justice Minister says the country’s law criminalizing homosexuality is here to remain, despite previously leading a campaign for LGBT rights.
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South Africa to consider legislation to criminalize anti-LGBT hate crimes
PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa is planning to introduce hate crime legislation, which would include laws to prosecute physical and verbal attacks on foreigners and LGBT people.
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Cameroon rally targets suspected gay bars amid rise in anti-LGBT tensions
DOUALA, Cameroon — More than 100 young men and women in Cameroon’s capital posted anti-gay signs on bars suspected of being gay-friendly during a rally organized amid mounting threats and acts of violence targeting the country’s sexual minorities.
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Uganda archbishop: Gay bishops are ‘spiritual cancer’ that ‘infected’ Anglican church
KAMPALA, Uganda — Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, the head Uganda’s Anglican Church of Uganda, said that gay bishops are a “spiritual cancer” and do not belong in the Church.
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Judge allows landmark case against anti-gay religious leader to proceed
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a crime against humanity and that the fundamental human rights of LGBTI people are protected under international law.