FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 22/DECEMBER/2014 Bombastic Magazine Press ReleaseView Online EditionDownload Now (PDF – 7 MB) Uganda’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) community launches Bombastic Magazine, the symbol of our ‘Reclaiming the Media’ Campaign today. Bombastic Magazine is a compilation of stories, testimonies and opinions by LGBTI Ugandans. The objective of this campaign is […]
December 2014
It is an all familiar situation where more than 75% of African countries’ laws and/or people’s attitudes prohibit, frown upon and criminalise same-sex relations and activity – Zambia not excluded. Despite the common denial trend in many African countries about the existence of gays and lesbians, the fact remains that they exist and remain part […]
She was my first best friend and while we have now grown apart due to circumstances (read growing up and responsibilities); she remains a very special part of my life. Everything I know about friendship, she taught me. Her name is Crystal (not real name) and we were inseparable. We met when I was about […]
I’m George Barasa (Jojibaro)24, openly HIV+Gay artist and activist based in Nairobi Kenya. Being a KUCHU a’ve had to go through what I can only term as “full gay cycle” I’ve gone through rejection from family and friends, outed by the media, dropped out of school and self educating myself, laid off at work, my […]
الحريات المدنية السبت 20 ديسمبر 2014 انتقدت المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية اليوم الملابسات والظروف الإجراءات المتعلقة بقيام إدارة مكافحة جرائم الآداب العامة في السابع من ديسمبر 2014 بإلقاء القبض على ٢٦ شخصًا داخل أحد الحمَّامات العامة في حي رمسيس بالقاهرة بتهمة ممارسة “الشذوذ” ودعت الى محاكمة عادلة في القضية التي يبدأ نظرها في أحد محاكم […]
When I left Uganda in February of 2014, for a speaking engagement in one of the most progressive states in the USA and home to Scott Lively the American Evangelical who sowed seeds of hate in Uganda, I didn’t know what was a two week visit was to become an indefinite stay. Today am protected […]
By Michael.S Africa was considered to be a dark continent by the early explorers and the missionaries; this was because of the skin colors of its occupants and the cultural practices which were considered inhuman and rigid (some). In Africa culture and beliefs come first and this has been the cause of misery to millions […]
Amnesty International is calling the current draft of a promised and now-delivered gender-recognition bill in Ireland a missed opportunity to truly affirm the genders and human rights of trans Irish people, reports Pink News. “This is a missed opportunity to enshrine the rights of all transgender people in Irish law,” Denis Krivosheev of Amnesty told the […]
“Words of Hope” is a campaign spearheaded by Just Detention International that aims to remind survivors of prison rape that they are not alone or forgotten. Contributing to “Words of Hope” is easy — and completely virtual. The Huffington Post chatted with Just Detention International Communication Director Jesse Lerner-Kinglake about “Words of Hope” this week […]
By country correspondent: Although the many achievements and success of the on-going and previous LGBTQI movements and organizations in the West, and Europe the LGBTQI communities in other parts such as Africa still deprived of basic human and social rights. Intolerance and discrimination towards homosexuality is especially in conservative religious countries, such as Sudan […]