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latest news & developmentsTeen suicides are a clarion call to protect queer children
Many South African schools are still sites of queerphobia, and slow cultural change means that activists may not be alive to see the changes they are fighting for
A poetic, resonant nightmare about LGBT rights and climate change
Alistair Mackay’s debut novel It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way is an important contribution to queer, developing-world cli-fi.
Hate speech and LGBTI rights: perspectives from the Jon Qwelane case
South Africa has an obligation to prohibit hate speech under international law, including against LGBTI persons. But now the Constitutional Court has to decide whether the hate…
Covid-19 deepens the educational divide
With the closure of schools, learning has moved to online platforms across the world, but a UNESCO report said only 12% of households in the least-developed countries have…
EDITORIAL: Nigerian law is the criminal, not gay people
Social mores and prejudices forged in Lagos are echoed in the intimate spaces of people all over the continent
MPs must kill the anti-gay Bill in Uganda
Proposed legislation imposes the death penalty for gay sex or ‘recruitment’. But love is not a crime
A very African queerness
Love Falls On Us by Robbie Corey-Boulet explores queer spaces across Africa
Shining a light on lesbian experiences in Nigeria
Pamela Adie’s LGBTQIA+ documentary ‘Under the Rainbow’, celebrates resilience and the pursuit of happiness and delivers its message as a love letter
Folau ‘anti-gay’ crowdfunding campaign shut down
Folau, a purportedly devout Christian, was fired last month after a Rugby Australia tribunal found him guilty of "high-level" misconduct
Kenya high court will not repeal anti-LGBT law
The three-judge bench ruled that the laws do not in any way violate the rights of LGBT Kenyans
Binyavanga Wainaina dies, aged 48
The Kenyan writer and activist died on Tuesday night after suffering a stroke
Explosively queer in biased areas
Artist and curator Claudio Bueno revisits the misery of a homophobic district with new queer energy
The Muslims who will not choose between their god and being gay
Cape Town’s gay men won’t abandon Islam, despite the censure they sometimes face
Be your queer black self in Brazil
A monthly party sees crowds of up to 50 000 letting their hair down in São Paulo and other cities
No truth for Gambia’s queer people
Despite the demise of a dictator and a reparations process, no one will speak out