In Tanzania and Kenya, LGBTQI+ environmental defenders encounter systemic oppression, legal barriers, and entrenched stigma in their struggle for justice.

In this podcast episode from Africa Uncensored, Abigail Arunga talks to Neo Musangi, a scholar and researcher of African sexualities and genders.

Discrimination, victimisation, and bullying towards LGBTQ+ people have escalated in the six months since Malawi’s Constitutional Court upheld penal codes criminalising homosexuality.

Living in Canada for several years now, Bradley and Alvin remember their home country Burundi with a nostalgia even though they were victims of homophobic oppression there. Despite protective laws in Canada, they warn LGBTQI+ newcomers from Burundi to remain cautious.

Denying trans people access to public toilets is not only discriminatory, it can also harm their physical health.

In this podcast episode from Purple Royale in Zimbabwe, Tindo, a Transman, narrates how he overcame addiction to become a top chess player.

Since its founding in 2015, Good Woman Association has empowered more than 85,000 sex workers and young girls across Nigeria in vocational skills.

People arrested under Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act face stigma, abuse and even rape in the nation’s prisons and police cells.

In 2020, three transgender Ugandan women established an interfaith and ecumenical ministry for LGBTIQA+ Ugandans in Kampala. Then came the Anti-Homosexuality Act.

Life took an unexpected and challenging turn when Siphosethu Mamba decided to come out as a transgender woman in Eswatini.