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Articles on LGBTIQ Africa
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On at Cape Town Pride, Melanie Chait’s documentary is about her life partner Nancy Diuguid.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
The activist is today the subject of songs, sculptures, an annual lecture and even a new musical.
A small but vocal lobby – some aided by US conservatives – have drawn battle lines around unisex bathrooms and gender pronouns.
Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.
Kenya’s LGBTI community continues to face the deadly consequences of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
LGBTI refugees from other countries expect Kenya to be safer but are quickly disillusioned.
Discussions about the films on social media and online forums show that African queer lives are complex and don’t tell a single story.
Aliens arrive in Lagos in Nnedi Okorafor’s celebrated sci-fi novel Lagoon – and with them they bring a future free of restrictive gender norms.
A celebration of life, love and resilience, The Rise and Fall of Saint George is a restorative experience.
It wasn’t just the film Rafiki - a joyful lesbian love story - but also the experience of going to watch it after it was unbanned that created a new kind of freedom.
Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
The artist’s body of work, through its very public focus on queer masculinity, offers alternative ways of thinking about what being a man is.
Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.
Desmond Tutu is by far the most high-profile African, if not global, religious leader to support lesbian and gay rights, and he has done so since the 1970s.
The recent ruling to decriminalize same sex behaviour in Botswana may have a positive impact on the rest of southern Africa.
The High Court’s ruling goes against the trend of greater liberalisation in a number of African countries.
Morocco’s law combines with a strongly conservative society to create a real sense of danger among LGBTIQ people.
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Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of Political Studies, Rhodes University
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Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine & SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research & Therapy, University of Pretoria
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