Jessica Stern, researcher for Human Rights Watch Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program
Lesbians in South Africa face abuse and violence simply for not fitting social expectations of how women should look and act.
MUTHARIKA CRITICISES GAY MOVEMENT MALAWI – 29 April 2010: The homosexual movement in Malawi was dealt a heavy blow at the weekend when President Bingu wa Mutharika condemned the act, describing it as foreign and un-African. President Mutharika made the scathing remarks during the consecration of a Roman Catholic Bishop at Limbe Cathedral in Blantyre [more]
LGBT PROTEST AGAINST THE U.S. AND UGANDA SOUTH AFRICA – 23 April 2010: A protest march will take place in Pretoria on Freedom Day, April 27, to demand equality for lesbians and gays in both the U.S. and Uganda. Organised by Up & Out, the University of Pretoria's gay organisation, the protestors will march from the Ugandan Embassy to the U.S. Embassy. [more]
GOVT SOFTENS ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL UGANDA – 22 April 2010: A Cabinet committee has recommended changes to Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s anti-gay legislation that preclude the possibility of discarding it, Daily Monitor has learnt.
But the report, which is yet to be discussed by Cabinet, indicts Mr Bahati for not applying the kind of sophistication that would have anticipated the international condemnation that came after the draft legislation was tabled in Parliament last year. [more]
MAJORITY HAS NO RIGHT TO DO WRONG ASMAL ON SEXUAL MINORITIES SOUTH AFRICA - 22 April 2010: More still needs to be done to sensitize the media and service providers such as police to effectively handle issues of sexual minorities. Behind the Mask learnt this at a Sexual Minority Course held by the Good Governance Programme [more]
GAY TALK SHOW TURNS ONE SOUTH AFRICA – 22 April 2010: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people are part of a broader society, we may be different in sexual orientations but we are all people with the same needs and are affected by similar issues, Frank Malaba, co-host and content producer of Outspoken, a gay talk show said as the Radio Today talk show turned one on 19 April 2010. [more]
GAY INMATE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE IN MALAWIAN PRISON MALAWI – 21 April 2010: One of the two men detained for holding a same-sex engagement party, is in a critical condition at Chichiri Prison and gay rights activists say it is because of the situation at this facility, where inmates eat only twice a day, with fetid holding cells, no proper sanitation and medical care. [more]
UGANDAN MP TO BE BANNED FROM UK IF HIS GAY DEATH PENALTY BILL SUCCEEDS AFRICA ABROAD – 21 April 2010: The British government will ban a Ugandan MP from travelling to the UK if he is successful in passing a law that would impose the death penalty in Uganda for being gay. Civil servants in the Foreign Office, the Department for International [more]
MITHLY, MOROCCO’S FIRST MAGAZINE FOR GAYS MOROCCO - 20 April 2010: Launched on April 1, Mithly (gay, in Arabic) is the first openly gay Moroccan magazine. The publication, edited in Arabic, seeks to give a voice to "lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals, to express themselves." And this does not necessarily go down well with everyone. "A first in the Arab world!" Exclaims the pan-Arab daily Alarab online. [more]
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FAREWELL TO A COMMITTED ACTIVIST - GEORGES KANUMA
The LGBTI community in Burundi has lost one of its most committed activists and defender, Georges Kanuma who passed away in Bujumbura, on Wednesday 14 April after a kidney failure and malaria complications. Kanuma was an activist and founder of Association for Respect of Homosexuals’ Rights (ARDHO) in 2003, the first LGBTI organization in the country, which was latter renamed HUMURE. More...
Behind The Mask an online LGBTI news publication is looking for a fellow, interested in human rights issues, news writting and reasearch to join us at our offices in Johannesburg. People from African countries will recieve first preference. More...
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13TH HIGHWAY AFRICA RAMBLINGS This year’s 13th annual Highway Africa conference was what I will like to call a hub of relevant and useful Information Communication Technologies (ICT) gathering. Topics ranged from agriculture, gender, health amongst others and how ICT plays a pivotal role in each of these sectors. [more]
LAW FAILING LESBIANS ON “CORRECTIVE RAPE” SOUTH AFRICA – 11 September 2009: The 07-07-07 Campaign, named after the gruesome double murder of Salome Masooa and Sizakele Sigaza in 2007 seeks to end the targeting of lesbian women for their sexuality.
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Jessica Stern, researcher for Human Rights Watch Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program
