Human rights lawyer says life is getting worse for gay people in Cameroon
Cameroonian human rights lawyer Alice Nkom says life has become even harder for Cameroon’s gay population following the murder of LGBT rights campaigner Eric Ohena Lembembe. The body of Mr Lembemb was...
View ArticleHome of Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseyev raided by police
Police in Moscow have reportedly searched the home of the Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseyev. On Tuesday, in a series of tweets, he said: “RT! Police in Moscow is trying to break into the flat of...
View ArticleIreland: Gay senator cuts off 40-year-old beard for charity
Irish Senator David Norris shaved his beard – and his head – for the first time in 40 years on Tuesday to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society. Mr Norris took part in the stunt as part of Today...
View ArticleLGBT campaigner and Holocaust survivor Sharley McLean dies aged 90
Tributes are being paid to the radical lesbian feminist and campaigner Sharley McLean, who died at the weekend. Born Lotte Reyersbach in Germany in 1923, her socialist father and Jewish mother both...
View ArticleRussia’s highest court rules gay ‘propaganda’ law does not breach constitution
Russia’s highest court has ruled that a law banning gay “propaganda” is not in breach of the country’s constitution. On Wednesday it was revealed that the Constitutional Court had dismissed a complaint...
View ArticleHuman rights campaigners pay tribute to Nelson Mandela
Tributes are pouring in for Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, who along with pioneering today’s era of racial integration for his country also presided over the establishment of gay...
View ArticleJamaica: Gay rights activist shot dead outside home
Tributes have been paid to gay rights campaigner Kenrick Stephenson, who was murdered outside his home in Jamaica last month. Mr Stephenson, popularly known as Bebe, was an openly gay activist for the...
View ArticleGay activist hopes to unseat Tory MP who warned of ‘aggressive homosexuals’
An LGBT rights campaigner is running to become a selected Labour candidate in a seat occupied by a Conservative MP who previously warned of the “aggressive homosexual community”. Former defence...
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