Tag Archives: AntiLGBTQ

Kazakhstan shelves anti-LGBTQ+ bill for additional study

Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstant (Photo courtesy of Expedia.com)

Kazakhstan Senate stalls bill that lower house approved unanimously. Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstant (Photo courtesy of Expedia.com) An anti-LGBTQ+ bill has stalled in Kazakhstan, but apparently not because Kazakh legislators are concerned about LGBTQ+ rights. The bill had unanimously passed the lower chamber of parliament on Nov. 12, but the Senate announced the bill had been postponed “indefinitely” …

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Ugandan anti-LGBTQ pastor uses Charlie Kirk murder to sell books

Pastor Martin Ssempa (Photo courtesy of the Monitor)

Ugandan homophobe Martin Ssempa echoes allegations of right-wing Americans. Pastor Martin Ssempa (Photo courtesy of the Monitor) Pastor Martin Ssempa, Uganda’s most prominent homophobic cleric, has been using the murder of American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk to promote Ssempa’s homophobia agenda and to seek buyers for Ssempa’s recently published anti-LGBTQ book. In a series of social media posts, Ssempa …

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Anti-LGBTQ laws hold back freedom, health, development

Two Tanzanian men with rainbow flags. (Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania)

LGBT Voice Tanzania calls on the state to protect all queer people Two Tanzanian men with rainbow flags. (Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania) A report from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group LGBT Voice Tanzania describes the destruction that systemic homophobia is wreaking on LGBTQ+ people in the East African state. Below is a summary of the report’s findings and calls …

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