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Two men marry in symbolic Malawian gay wedding
Two Malawian men became the first gay couple in their country to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday, risking arrest in the conservative southern African state where...
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Malawi gay couple arrested following weekend wedding
A gay couple in Malawi who held a public wedding ceremony have been arrested and charged with “gross indecency,” police officials said Tuesday. According to Reuters: Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven...
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Kenya police arrest 5 suspected homosexuals in raid on gay wedding
Kenya police on Friday arrested five suspected homosexuals in a coastal resort town after hundreds of residents protested over a planned gay wedding. A police official said two of the men had been...
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Malawi gay couple gets 14 years hard labor for violating ‘order of nature’
A Malawi gay couple was sentenced Thursday to the maximum 14 years in prison with hard labour, after being convicted of sodomy for holding the country’s first same-sex wedding. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and...
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Malawi president pardons gay couple
A gay couple in Malawi sentenced to 14 years hard labor for holding the country’s first same-sex engagement were pardoned Saturday after a meeting between the president and the UN Secretary General....
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Ghanaian Regional Minister orders witch hunt of suspected homosexuals
Though LGBT people are already deemed criminals in the West African nation of Ghana, it seems that persecution of gays and lesbians is only slated to get worse, as police services in the western...
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Nigeria Senate approves wide-ranging anti-gay marriage bill
Nigeria's Senate has passed an "anti-gay marriage" bill, extending its scope by also criminalizing gay clubs and organizations, and making public displays of affection between gays punishable with 10...
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Fundamentalist backing Romney has questionable ties to Africa’s anti-gay...
Mitt Romney on Wednesday proudly announced Kris Kobach’s endorsement of his presidential campaign. Kobach is the Kansas Secretary of State and a far-right conservative who was the architect of SB 1070,...
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UN Secretary General urges African nations to respect gay rights
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, in an unusually outspoken declaration Sunday, told African leaders assembled at the African Union summit that they must respect...
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Liberian anti-gay group distributes ‘hit list’ on country’s LGBT people
MONROVIA, Liberia -- An extremist anti-gay group in the west African nation of Liberia distributed fliers this past weekend with a hit list of people who support gay rights, and said that those...
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Zimbabwe: Minister urges eviction of people who support gays
HARARA, Zimbabwe -- Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo has urged traditional chiefs to banish "people who support homosexuality" from their communities and take away their land.
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Police in Uganda raid workshop on gay rights, arrest LGBT activists
Police in Kampala, Uganda on Monday raided a gay rights meeting and arrested several LGBT activists gathered at the Essela Hotel in Najjeera, a Kampala suburb, accusing the participants of “propagating...
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Murder suspect arrested in brutal slaying of LGBT volunteer in South Africa
A suspect has been arrested in the brutal murder of Thapelo Makuthle in Kuruman, near Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.
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Report: U.S. Christian Right lobbies to implement anti-gay laws in Africa
SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Conservative U.S. Christian "family values" and religious organizations are setting up fronts in Africa to fight for anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation to promote their...
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Malawi official backtracks on possible suspension of anti-gay laws
LILILONGWE, Malawi -- Malawian Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara on Thursday backtracked on statements regarding possible suspension of arrests of LGBT persons in this small landlocked country in...
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Uganda promises anti-homosexuality bill will pass as ‘Christmas gift’ to nation
KAMPALA — Uganda’s speaker of parliament has promised that the controversial anti-homosexuality bill, dubbed the "Kill the Gays Bill," will pass by the end of the year, calling it a "Christmas gift" to...
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U.S. envoy meets Ugandan leaders over anti-gay bill
The top U.S. diplomat in Africa met over the weekend with leaders in Uganda to express concerns about an anti-gay bill pending before the country’s parliament that could be headed for a vote as soon as...
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Cameroon court upholds 3-year prison term for gay text message
An appeals court in the African nation of Cameroon on Monday upheld a three-year sentence against a man found guilty of homosexual conduct for sending a text message to another that contained a photo...
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Report that gay Somalian teen stoned to death in doubt due to fraudulent photos
Reports by an LGBT activist group in Africa that a gay Somalian teenager was stoned to death last week as a punishment for the crime of homosexuality, and widely reported by LGBT bloggers on Wednesday,...
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Still no justice for murdered South African lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza
Wednesday marks the two year anniversary of the brutal death of Noxolo Nogwaza, a South African lesbian and LGBT rights activist. In 2011, 24-year-old Noxolo, organizer of the Ekurhuleni Pride...
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