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After the coming out of Brenda Biya, the president of Cameroon's daughter, one lesbian in the country opens up about being “afraid for my life every day."
Military leaders did not reveal the extent of the ban — whether it is against LGBTQ+ identity broadly or specifically those in same-sex relationships, nor what the sentences will entail.
Biya said her mother and brother have both urged her to delete the recent Instagram post revealing her relationship with a Brazilian model.
LGBTQ+ relationships are criminalized in Cameroon, carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison.
Reps. Mark Takano and Joyce Beatty have led the effort to introduce a resolution to condemn Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, "one of the harshest anti-LGBTQI+ laws the world has seen."
Forty-four-year-old Manuel Guerrero Aviña was detained in February after being entrapped by law enforcement through a fake Grindr profile, his family says.
"If you really want to go there, you need to respect the laws and religion of these countries and play the game.”
From actors to activists, TIME is honoring some of the LGBTQ+ people who have changed the world.
"What I really want the world to know is that [queer Ghanaians] have no life, they have no voice,” Mr. B, who was recently granted asylum, told The Advocate.
Manuel Guerrero, 44, is banned from leaving the country and is about to run out of antiretroviral medication, his brother Enrique tells The Advocate.
X reportedly received between $10 and $2,500 to promote a post calling for LGBTQ+ people to receive the death penalty.
A Houthi court sentenced 32 men on charges of "sodomy" earlier this year, a Human Rights Watch investigation has found.
Ghanaian pastor and musician Sonnie Badu says that even gospel music isn't safe from the evil gays.
Officials warned President Akufo-Addo that signing the draconian anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law would have grave consequences.
The family of 44-year-old Manuel Guerrero say that Qatari authorities have subjected him to torture by depriving him of his HIV medication.
While recognition of gender identity has increased significantly in the past two decades, so has the criminalization of transgender people, a new study shows.
Johnson gave legal advice to Exodus International, a leader in the so-called "ex-gay" movement.
The new policy is meant to provide a framework for the agency to create inclusive programming.
A Ugandan bill expands existing criminalization of same-sex conduct to create a legal framework for systematic persecution and social exclusion based on sexual orientation and gender identity. What will the Pope do?
