January 17, 2025
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Africa

Black pastors launch African tour to counteract Rick Warren’s anti-gay movement

Steve Lee, Editor04 mins

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Spearheaded by The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (“TFAM”), its founder and presiding Bishop Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder and executive director, Bishop-Elect, Pastor Joseph Tolton, the organization’s international outreach ministry, The Fellowship Global (“TFG”), has launched a month long tour of key African nations where LGBTI communities continue to experience extreme discrimination and persecution. These countries…

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San Diego, plant seeds in Kenya: DIG fundraiser March 29

Steve Lee, Editor04 mins

Sunday, March 29, the San Diego community is invited to Bamboo Lounge for a fundraising event that will support the important efforts of Development in Gardening (DIG). The nonprofit organization, DIG, was founded in San Diego over nine years ago and works with HIV-affected and at-risk populations throughout Africa to improve their health and wellbeing…

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Thirteen human rights organizations urge Obama administration to take action against Gambian government

Steve Lee, Editor05 mins

Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) joined 13 other human rights groups in urging the Obama Administration to take additional action against Gambian leaders following the regime’s ongoing crackdown and persecution of LGBT citizens, and called on it to demand that the Gambian government provide more information about the health and safety of individuals who…

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The state of LGBT equality in Africa

Steve Lee, Editor018 mins

Months after Uganda’s Constitutional Court overturned its Anti-Homosexuality Act, which prescribed life in prison for many instances of gay sex, nearly identical legislation returned — this time in the Gambia, reports Thom Senzee for The Advocate. In October, Chad took up a sweeping bill that calls for 20-year prison sentences for those percieved to be…

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‘America’ editorial chastises Catholics for support of draconian anti-gay laws

Steve Lee, Editor04 mins

A group of Jesuits from the New York-based magazine America:  The National Catholic Review have written an editorial calling out Catholics who promote, agree with or turn a blind eye to punishing new laws being enacted throughout Africa. “Gay and lesbian people in these countries are living under a sword of Damocles, constantly afraid that…

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Kenyan author ‘comes out’ in protest over Nigerian anti-gay law

Steve Lee, Editor24 mins

Novelist, short story writer, author and journalist Binyavanga Wainaina declared his homosexuality this past week in a short story entitled I am A Homosexual, Mum to protest the passage of anti-gay laws in Nigeria. Wainaina, the founder of the Nairobi-based literary network Kwani, writes, “”I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a…

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Nelson Mandela Memorial service: a ‘giant of history’ is laid to rest

Steve Lee, Editor05 mins

SOUTH AFRICA – Nelson Mandela was lauded as a “giant of history” and “one of the greatest leaders of our time” as tens of thousands cheered and almost 100 world leaders paid tribute to the anti-apartheid icon at a memorial service today. President Barack Obama, addressing the 95,000 capacity crowd in the  First National Bank…

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