KENYA: HOPES FOR CALM YET CLERICS STOKE HATRED

In the aftermath of the attempted anti-gay pogrom in Mtwapa, Kenya, the Daily Nation reports that the government’s attempts to calm the situation are being rebuffed by clerics. The government has set up a committee which aims to educate the public on the operations of the Kenya Medical Research...

February 22nd, 2010 | Highlights, International | Read More

FIVE GAY MEN ARRESTED IN MOMBASSA – MOB CALLS FOR DEATH BY FIRE

Six gay men arrested allegedly to protect them from a rampaging mob in Mombasa, Kenya are to be charged with ‘having unnatural sex against the order of nature’ and subjected to medical examinations. A riot started on Friday following a report in Kenya’s newspaper The Daily Nation,...

February 16th, 2010 | Highlights, International | Read More

KENYAN POLICE SAVE MEN FROM “OPERATION GAYS OUT”

Police in a Kenyan town had to rescue three men from a mob of hundreds who threatened to attack them after claiming they were gay. Residents of Mtwapa accused the men of being “notorious homosexuals” who were spreading homosexuality in the town. Sheikh Hussein Ali from the Council of Imams...

February 12th, 2010 | International | Read More

38 OUT OF 53 AFRICAN COUNTRIES CRIMINALISED GAY SEX

Today’s Telegraph reports on how African governments are clamping down on homosexuality. Thirty eight out of fifty three of the continent’s nations have criminalised consensual gay sex. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says anti-gay policies are being used by politicians as a way of bringing together...

January 11th, 2010 | International | Read More

UGANDA: PEPSI SPONSORS CONCERT FEATURING BEENIE MAN

Are Pepsi’s marketing department living on the Moon? Possibly. Why? Because recently the soft drinks company have sponsored a concert in Uganda (a country soon set to pass an anti-gay bill) featuring Beenie Man – the controversial gay hate dancehall artist. According to reports in Uganda’s...

December 7th, 2009 | Interviews, News | Read More

TATCHELL’S LETTER TO COMMONWEALTH LEADER

Copy of Peter Tatchell’s letter to the Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma Commonwealth Secretary-General Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX 020 7747 6500 secretary-general@commonwealth.int 19 November 2009 Your Excellency, I am writing to inquire what the Commonwealth is...

November 26th, 2009 | International, News | Read More

STONEWALL HONOUR BOYZONE

Boyzone have been named entertainers of the year at the 2009 Stonewall Awards held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The judges said that Stephen Gately’s coming out at the height of the band’s success contributed to raise awareness. Gately died last month while on holiday in Majorca...

November 5th, 2009 | Music, News, Theatre | Read More

COMMENT: FROM JAMAICA, WITH HATE

Last year, Bounty Killer – one of the hearty proponents of Jamaican Murder Music – performed some of his homicidal hoedowns at the Stratford Rex, with the full blessing of the London Met Police Force. This July, Buju Banton (he of ‘Boom Bye Bye’ fame) did the same at the Hammersmith Apollo....

October 21st, 2009 | International, Music, News | Read More