Complex anxieties are at play in the wave of homophobia that’s currently sweeping over the continent, writes <b>Mark Gevisser</b>.
Ellen Chademana and Ignatius Muhambi hid their faces as they emerged from a Harare court late on Wednesday, hiding from two photographers.
The UN’s top human rights official has condemned the sentencing of two gay men in Malawi as "blatantly discriminatory".
A Malawi court has sentenced a gay couple to the maximum 14 years in prison for unnatural acts and gross indecency.
A gay couple in Malawi was found guilty on Tuesday of unnatural acts and gross indecency after a trial that drew worldwide condemnation.
A Ugandan parliamentary panel said on Friday there is little backing for the country’s widely condemned anti-gay Bill.
Malawi church leaders say that homosexuality is "sinful" and urge Western nations to withdraw threats to halt aid to the Southern Africa country.
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/ 5 February 2010
US President Barack Obama has denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that has drawn international condemnation.
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/ 19 January 2010
Malawi on Tuesday defended the country’s first trial of a newly wed gay couple charged with "gross indecency".
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/ 14 January 2010
Uganda has indicated it will bow to international pressure and amend draconian anti-homosexual legislation.
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/ 4 December 2009
As a gay Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers, hate messages on his phone, police harassment and being outed in a tabloid.
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/ 2 December 2009
Life imprisonment is minimum punishment under anti-homosexuality Bill currently before the country’s Parliament.
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/ 16 October 2009
Human rights groups have blasted Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty.
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/ 12 October 2009
Barrack Obama reaffirmed an "unwavering" commitment to end discrimination against gay people, including the ban on openly serving in the military.
Forty years ago we demanded liberation. Now we only settle for equality, says veteran activist
Dakar’s court of appeal on Monday overturned jail convictions for homosexuality against nine Senegalese nationals and ordered their immediate release.
Could cellphone text messages encourage safer sex among homosexual men in Tanzania, where consensual sex among men remains illegal?
Gay men and women in Britain are being offered treatments to reverse their homosexuality, despite there being no proof that therapies are effective.
Positive images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual students in university brochures and on websites influence students’ choice of institution.
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/ 13 January 2009
SA refused to support a declaration by the UN General Assembly on Human Rights Day, December 18, calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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/ 26 November 2008
Silence about sexuality is a luxury that straight people take for granted. Gay people necessarily, explicitly wear their sexuality on their sleeves.
Let people be ashamed of their choice to not know, rather than their non-choice to be born homosexual or physically disabled or any shade of off-white.
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/ 11 September 2008
The Moreleta Park NG Kerk in Pretoria has apologised to a gay music teacher that it fired over his homosexuality.
A Pretoria NG Kerk unfairly discriminated against gay music teacher Johan Strydom when it fired him three years ago, a court ruled on Thursday.
After weeks of peacemaking over homosexuality, Rowan Williams points the finger of blame at North American churches.
Though advocacy groups and helplines in recent years have given homosexuals a voice and some solace, they are still largely a hidden community.
Gay men and heterosexual women have similar shaped brains, says new study.