Tag "Anti Gay Crime"
There’s a rising global tide of crackdowns on LGBT communities
By Max Bearak and originally published on washingtonpost.com This week, a government journal in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan announced that the country’s interior ministry had compiled a registry
Mass Arrests Amid LGBT Media Blackout in Egypt
The Egyptian government has intensified its campaign against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their supporters, arresting dozens of people in less than two weeks, as reported by
This Is A Red Flag From ICARH
A short while ago, the International Centre for Advocacy on Rights to Health (ICARH) recorded a case of robbery and attempted murder on a community member living in Gishiri, Abuja.
Chechnya’s president vows to eliminate all gay men by the end of May
Chechnya’s president has vowed to ‘eliminate’ all gay men by the end of May. Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, threatened to rid the area of homosexuality ‘by Ramadan’.
RED AS BLOOD, BLACK AS DARKNESS
People often say that coming to Lagos can be a life-changing experience. This proved very true for me after I was posted to Lagos for my NYSC. I’d finished from
HIS KITO STORY (EDITION 25)
An idle mind, they say, is the devil’s workshop. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I had just completed my service year and was waiting for admission for my
Kito Alert: The Face Of A Wicked Man
Yesterday, I got mentioned on the Facebook post below, an alert to someone (who turned out to be on my friend list) who had basically named and shamed a gay
RANTINGS OF A RANDOM (Gay) NIGERIAN (Entry 63)
I woke up one morning and Twitter was buzzing. It appeared that Pink News, which is a foremost LGBT newspaper in the UK, had awarded David Cameron the title of
KITO ALERT! VI
For whomever it may concern:
K’osidim n’obi (Entry 2)
So this actually happened a few weeks ago. It was one of my lazy evenings; I was trying to sew up a skirt for a friend before burying myself in
