Tag Archives: Queer

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people in Ghana are targeted online by criminal gangs. A screen grab from a social media video allegedly showing a gay person who was attacked in Ghana. (Photo courtesy of The Guardian) The Guardian reports: By Carlotta Dotto and Kwaku Krobea Asante When a friend introduced Delali* to the dating app Grindr, she was wary. The 25-year-old …

Survey reveals a young, highly educated talent pool that is systematically shut out of job opportunities. First-of-its-kind data reveal an multitude of Nigerian LGBTQ+ job seekers who are young, highly educated, and systematically excluded from employment. With up to 94 percent of highly educated queer professionals preparing to emigrate, discrimination could cost Nigeria up to $31 billion in GDP over …

I’m a queer, gender non-conforming person in a relationship with a straight man. Our love doesn’t fit neatly into a category, but that doesn’t make it any less true. By Maverique Z On an unassuming day in October 2022, I met my current partner. At the time, I mistook him for someone else and called him the wrong name, yet …

Kenya’s ambitious new integration plan arouses hopes and worries Illustration combines the Kenyan flag and strands of rainbow colors. (Illustration by Rex Opara courtesy of Minority Africa) As Kenya launches an ambitious effort to turn refugee camps into open villages, LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, long targeted by violence, wonder whether the promise of safety, mobility, and legal status will finally reach …

Returning after 23 years, Jann Halexander considers what’s possible in Gabon Jann Halexander Gabonese-French singer, actor and director Jann Halexander wrote the following essay on his return to Gabon after a 23-year absence from his homeland. While he was away, Gabon passed a law against homosexual activity in 2019, then repealed it in 2020. Being Homosexual in Gabon Émèno ka …

New Cameroonian study documents social, legal, and financial obstacles to queer parenthood   At a meeting last month, Femmes Debout CRD presents its report on the desire of LGBTI Cameroonians to be parents. By Steeves Winner In Cameroon, having a child is perceived as a social obligation, a condition of acceptance and respectability. But for queer people, this universal desire …

Patrons were subjected to humiliation, violence, and degrading treatment Graphic from the Azerbaijan LGBTQ organization Qiy Vaar states, “Get Out of Our Lives.” Azerbaijan police raided an LGBTQ-friendly nightclub on Dec 27, detaining more than 100 patrons who reported physical violence, humiliation, and demands for bribes. Detainees allege hair cutting, broken teeth, and sexual violence, with one stating that police …

Queer spaces have always existed in Nigeria, but only on the margins Black queer figures dancing in an underground rave. (Illustration by Rex Opara courtesy of Minority Africa) Queer communities helped shape Lagos’s underground party scene. Now, as alté culture moves into the mainstream, the people who built it are being pushed to the margins – again.   In a …