Africa Watch – Gay News Headlines

Filed Under Headlines | February 1st, 2010 

Africa Watch – Gay News Headlines: Updates, News and Opinions from and about Africa – Especially Uganda.

Gay African News- Africa News — SADC NGO’s pressure Malawi on gay couple — About thirty-five Southern African non-governmental organizations want arrested gay couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza released without condition.

- GayUganda Blogger: Knock on the Door — Today, early in the morning, as I hold my love, a phone call. Guy is inside his house, police is outside, and they are going to arrest him. A heads up.

- IPS News — RIGHTS-UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country — Every morning Pepe Julian Onziema wakes up not knowing if she will live to see another rising sun. Onziema is transgender and she lives in fear for her life because of a national campaign against gay people.

- Dr. Paul Semugoma: Puritanism is Deadly Policy: US Fed Homophobia in Uganda Must Stop.

- All Africa — Uganda: Continent’s Govts Watch Anti-Gay Bill Debate.

- HuffPo/Jim Luce — U.S. Congressmember Carolyn Maloney on Abhorrent Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda.

- Irish Times — Why Africa is no place to be gay.