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Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…recently vowed to deport foreigners who “campaign for homosexuality.” Pan Africa ILGA strongly denounced the arrests as part of a pattern of arbitrariness and abuse of power in Tanzania and other African countries. Indonesia: Government rejects most UN recommendations; ban on unmarried sex could snare tourists Human Rights Watch criticized the Indonesian government for accepting two vague pro-human-rights recommendations made by the UN Human Righ…

To the Editor: It Took a Village to Change Rick Warren’s Mind

By Abby Scher

…aders here and abroad, and Victor Mukasa, a SMUG member living in exile in South Africa, was blogging about it and speaking out through his position with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Box Turtle Bulletin stayed on that story for months (and is still on the story), through every permutation of the antigay bill, alerting LGBT communities about what was happening and creating a handy resource once the mainstream…

Addressing Homophobic Rhetoric, and Not Just the Anti-Gay Initiatives in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…arren’s point man for his P.E.A.C.E. Plan in Rwanda, which is supposed to “promote reconciliation” and “equip leaders.” The proposed criminalization laws are a manifestation of this homophobia. Even without criminalization laws, LGBT people suffer discrimination and violence, including the verbal violence of religious leaders that Warren continues to promote. In a way, you can understand Ssempa’s bewilderment: why is he cut off, but not Akinola or…

Does Religion Drive Evolution? And Other Questions from the Cutting Edge of Biohistory

By Arri Eisen

…tually going faster, up to a hundred times faster, than before humans left Africa. Why faster? Well, the scientists reason, not only have we dramatically changed environments from Africa to all corners of Earth, but there’s also vastly more of us, vastly more organisms on which evolution can work. Ten thousand years ago Earth hosted 10 million people; now it holds almost seven billion. So, the odds of any particular mutation occurring by chance is…

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…e hit musical they felt furthered harmful racial stereotypes of Africa and Africans. This is no small ask. Anyone familiar with The Book of Mormon is likely familiar with its capacity for rudeness. The cartoonish world of the show’s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone paints white Mormonism and Black Africa with brushes so broad they blend both the ludicrous and the actual. Broadway audiences have sometimes had a hard time telling these apart. Som…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…philanthropy. It’s complex motivations like these that lead many to believe that they’re just one more example of Western organizations using African problems as a prop to promote their own interests….

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…major step forward in the fight for LGBTI safety, respect, and justice in Africa. Many conservative lawmakers and faith leaders in Africa—urged on by their U.S.-based conservative benefactors—will undoubtedly argue that this resolution is part of some imagined international “gay agenda” to create new, special rights for LGBTI people. But the ACHPR has simply affirmed that the application of existing human rights standards should also apply to tho…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ng the Bishop of trying to get Western countries to use their influence in Africa to help accomplish the “acceptance of homosexuality in Africa.” The IRD, bankrolled by conservative funders like the reclusive Howard Ahmanson, has, since the early 1980s, made it its mission to cause splits and dissension in Protestant denominations. According to Jim Naughton of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who conducted an extensive study of the IRD: The IR…

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

…rge. With the exception of some significant Greek communities in Egypt and South Africa (who are decidedly not in the market for a new Russian bishop), the relatively few African convert communities on the continent are neither financially affluent nor politically powerful—yet. Modern Russia also has designs on Africa, where it seeks to compete with China and the Western powers for influence on a continent of natural resources and growing markets….

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s the continent. Essa challenges those who suggest homosexuality is an “un-African” western concept, saying that “to suggest that Africa has no place for homosexuals is to imagine the continent’s history as beginning when prude missionaries brought Bibles, long skirts and umbrellas as a marker of civilization.” The construction of sin and categorical notions of sexuality over the past four centuries on the continent are inextricably linked to colo…