• Sarah Ladipo Manyika

The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.

• Jonathan Duncan

Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.

• T.J. Tallie

What happens when a corporate model of Pride is used to homogenize and silence those without privilege and power?

• Chantal Zabus

Both in and outside of Africa, there is an argumentative frenzy around the instability of gender and sex and non-conforming performances of gender.

• Elliot Ross

An insight into the openly racist and homophobic atmosphere that passed for public life in Margaret Thatcher's England.

• Elliot Ross

The writer, Chimamanda Adichie, lines up the homophobic arguments against rights for gay people and knocks them down one by one.

• Dan Moshenberg

There is no evidence that Nigeria is under attack from gays and lesbians or the nation's "culture" being eroded from within by "waves of sexual marauders."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

When Binyavanga Wainaina, came out as gay recently, he wanted that news to appear in African-owned media and not be misrepresented in Euro-American media.

• Binyavanga Wainaina

The writer imagines coming out to his late mother.

• Bukola Afolayan

Nigeria's governing class declares its disdain for any form or likeness of homosexuality or the rights of gay people.

• Jonathan Duncan

The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.

• Brett Davidson

The plague of evangelical Christianity and its role in fueling homophobia in African countries like Uganda.

• Africa Is a Country

On Linda Ikeji's blog it's all good fun until the gay-baiting begins.

• Melissa Levin

Canadian immigration - while discouraging Roma from applying for refugee status - welcomes the worst of Apartheid South Africa's perpetrators.

• Dan Moshenberg

Alice Nkom, the brave, activist lawyer, harassed and imprisoned by Cameroon's repressive regime on the government's actions: "Threats like these show us that the fight must continue.”

• T.J. Tallie
• Alice de Vries

In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa - where political and economic power are at odds - what happens in gay spaces?

• Brett Davidson

The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.

• Dan Moshenberg

• T.J. Tallie

How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?

• T.J. Tallie
• Alice de Vries

The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.