Africa

A judge in Uganda has granted a permanent injunction against an anti-gay tabloid that had published addresses and photographs of some of the 100 people it named as “Uganda’s top homos” back on October.

In the name of God, these thugs and theocrats are playing God with the lives of LGBT people across the globe. It is time civilized people stand up to such Bible-based barbarism before it is too late. A good place to start is at The National Prayer Breakfast.

A gay couple in Malawi sentenced to 14 years hard labor for holding the country’s first same-sex engagement were pardoned Saturday after a meeting between the president and the UN Secretary General. President Bingu wa Mutharika announced his pardon of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga after meeting with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, according to […]

A Malawi gay couple was sentenced Thursday to the maximum 14 years in prison with hard labour, after being convicted of sodomy for holding the country’s first same-sex wedding. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were arrested on December 28 after their symbolic wedding and accused of violating “the order of nature,” and were told by […]

A South African man has won the 2010 Mr. Gay World pageant, beating rivals from Australia, Hong Kong, China and Spain, the organizers announced Sunday. Charl Van den Berg, 28, who runs a restaurant in Cape Town, won after four days of competition […]

Kenya police on Friday arrested five suspected homosexuals in a coastal resort town after hundreds of residents protested over a planned gay wedding. A police official said two of the men had been found with wedding rings, attempting to get married, in the Kikambala beach resort, according to the BBC. The other three men were […]

President Barack Obama on Thursday sharply criticized the proposed anti-gay laws in Uganda that has drawn international condemnation for its severely penalties for homosexual behavior. “We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are — whether it’s here in the […]

U.S. lawmakers this week introduced resolutions in both the House and Senate, condemning an anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda’s parliament, calling it an attack on human rights and an obstacle to battling HIV/AIDS. The Ugandan bill, dubbed the “Kill the Gays” bill, would execute people for being gay if they have HIV/AIDS or were convicted of […]

Uganda’s leader has stated that the country’s anti-homosexuality bill, which proposed the death penalty for those found engaging in gay sex, is being re-worked and is a foreign policy issue. Speaking at a party conference Tuesday…

A new report from The New York Times links three American evangelical Christians — whose teachings about “curing” gays have been widely discredited in the U.S. — as influential in Uganda’s anti-gay legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by death. According to the Times, the three spoke at an event in Uganda last March, where […]