• For #LGBThistorymonth in the #UK, @pink_news is putting the spotlight on remarkable activists, artists and change-makers like the legendary @ladyphyll, co-founder of @ukblackpride. . . . As a trade unionist, a working class girl, and an out black #African lesbian, I want to stand by my principles and values. I don't believe in empire. I don't believe in, and actively resist, #colonialism and its toxic and enduring legacy in the Commonwealth, where - among many other injustices - #LGBTQI people are still being persecuted, tortured and even killed because of sodomy laws… that were put in place by British imperialists. . . . #blackhistorymonth #blackexcellence #solidarity #blackfuturemonth #standup4humanrights #blacklivesmatter #lgbtlivesmatter #blackhistorymonth2019 #LGBTHM19 #lgbtpride🌈 #qpoc #resist #BlackPride
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    For #LGBThistorymonth in the #UK, @pink_news is putting the spotlight on remarkable activists, artists and change-makers like the legendary @ladyphyll, co-founder of @ukblackpride. . . . As a trade unionist, a working class girl, and an out black #African lesbian, I want to stand by my principles and values. I don't believe in empire. I don't believe in, and actively resist, #colonialism and its toxic and enduring legacy in the Commonwealth, where - among many other injustices - #LGBTQI people are still being persecuted, tortured and even killed because of sodomy laws… that were put in place by British imperialists. . . . #blackhistorymonth #blackexcellence #solidarity #blackfuturemonth #standup4humanrights #blacklivesmatter #lgbtlivesmatter #blackhistorymonth2019 #LGBTHM19 #lgbtpride🌈 #qpoc #resist #BlackPride
  • After fleeing #transphobic violence in #Uganda, trans women are surviving in Kenya as #poultry #farmers. The women are among a bold and vibrant presence of LGBTQ folks across the #African continent whose voices are often muted by repressive local laws dating back to European colonial rule and sustained by deeply conservative religious forces. . . Read the full story in @GayCityNews: https://www.gaycitynews.nyc/stories/2019/4/kenyafarm-humanrights-2019-02-15-gcn.html #decriminalizelgbt #lgbtafrica #whereloveisillegal #transisbeautiful #wontbeerased #lgbtq🌈 #transrightsarehumanrights #refugeeswelcome #kenyalgbt #visibility #courage #radicalfarming #queerfarmers #farming #farmhousechic #translivesmatter #lgbtuganda
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    After fleeing #transphobic violence in #Uganda, trans women are surviving in Kenya as #poultry #farmers. The women are among a bold and vibrant presence of LGBTQ folks across the #African continent whose voices are often muted by repressive local laws dating back to European colonial rule and sustained by deeply conservative religious forces. . . Read the full story in @GayCityNews: https://www.gaycitynews.nyc/stories/2019/4/kenyafarm-humanrights-2019-02-15-gcn.html #decriminalizelgbt #lgbtafrica #whereloveisillegal #transisbeautiful #wontbeerased #lgbtq🌈 #transrightsarehumanrights #refugeeswelcome #kenyalgbt #visibility #courage #radicalfarming #queerfarmers #farming #farmhousechic #translivesmatter #lgbtuganda
  • #LGBTQmuslims: Shout out to the @thequeermuslimproject! Creating a safe and intersectional space for LGBTQI Muslims on Facebook and IG. #inspiring #courage #visibility . . Created by artist and activist Rafiul Alom Rahman. He was motivated to “undo years of guilt most Muslim queer people like him grow up with. That is why he wanted to build a safe space for queer #Muslims in #India, both online as well as offline. “For a long time, I couldn’t come to terms with my own desires. I always felt there was something abnormal about it. I remember, long back, when I was 14 or 15, I approached a maulana and told him about how I feel, that I don’t know what this is. He said. ‘You’re very young. Otherwise, I would’ve advised you to marry a woman. But since you’re young what you can do is offer prayers and fast. And each time such thoughts cross your mind, just take cold showers.’ So I grew up with this very skewed idea about sexuality,” says Rafiul. Scroll through the #photography. More on the Queer Muslim Project Here: https://www.inuth.com/beyond-the-headlines/the-queer-muslim-project-is-here-to-build-a-safe-intersectional-space-for-lgbtq-youth/ #LGBTrigthsarehumanrights #DecriminalizeLGBT #2019queermuslimgoals #queermuslimsunplugged #queermuslims #lgbtmuslims #rolemodels #queerart #gay #lesbian #trans #bisexual #instagay #inspiration #qtpoc #whereloveisillegal #humanrights #muslimartists #visibility #unity #standup4humanrights #BlackHistoryMonth #drag
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    #LGBTQmuslims: Shout out to the @thequeermuslimproject! Creating a safe and intersectional space for LGBTQI Muslims on Facebook and IG. #inspiring #courage #visibility . . Created by artist and activist Rafiul Alom Rahman. He was motivated to “undo years of guilt most Muslim queer people like him grow up with. That is why he wanted to build a safe space for queer #Muslims in #India, both online as well as offline. “For a long time, I couldn’t come to terms with my own desires. I always felt there was something abnormal about it. I remember, long back, when I was 14 or 15, I approached a maulana and told him about how I feel, that I don’t know what this is. He said. ‘You’re very young. Otherwise, I would’ve advised you to marry a woman. But since you’re young what you can do is offer prayers and fast. And each time such thoughts cross your mind, just take cold showers.’ So I grew up with this very skewed idea about sexuality,” says Rafiul. Scroll through the #photography. More on the Queer Muslim Project Here: https://www.inuth.com/beyond-the-headlines/the-queer-muslim-project-is-here-to-build-a-safe-intersectional-space-for-lgbtq-youth/ #LGBTrigthsarehumanrights #DecriminalizeLGBT #2019queermuslimgoals #queermuslimsunplugged #queermuslims #lgbtmuslims #rolemodels #queerart #gay #lesbian #trans #bisexual #instagay #inspiration #qtpoc #whereloveisillegal #humanrights #muslimartists #visibility #unity #standup4humanrights #BlackHistoryMonth #drag
  • #LegalizeLGBT: Hopes are high that #Botswana and #Kenya will be the next two countries to overturn their anti-gay laws, if court challenges in both countries are successful. “The Botswana High Court scheduled a hearing for March 15, 2019, on the constitutionality of Botswana’s laws that make same-sex intimacy a crime. The Kenyan High Court in Nairobi set Feb. 22, 2019, as the date when it will announce whether it will overturn the law condemning people convicted of consensual gay sex to as much as 14 years in prison. The court challenge in Kenya came from the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), an independent human rights organization. The challenge in Botswana was filed by a gay man identified only as LM, who is supported by the local LGBT rights group @legabibo. Similar constitutional challenges to the anti-gay laws of #Barbados, #Jamaica, #Lebanon, #Malawi, and #Singapore are also on the horizon. Other challenges to anti-gay laws are reportedly in the works in #Cameroon, #Morocco, and #Tunisia. #LGBT rights #activists won major #victories in court in 2018. #Trinidad’s High Court ruled in April that that nation’s anti-gay law was unconstitutional. #India’s Supreme Court made a similar ruling in September. Via Rights Africa: https://rightsafrica.com/2018/12/11/2019-goal-eliminate-two-more-countries-anti-gay-laws/ #lgbtafrica #whereloveisillegal #queerafrica #decriminalizelgbt #decolonize #standup4humanrights #refugeeswelcome #africanrights #lovewins #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtlivesmatter #humanrights #lgbtrightsarehumanrights
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    #LegalizeLGBT: Hopes are high that #Botswana and #Kenya will be the next two countries to overturn their anti-gay laws, if court challenges in both countries are successful. “The Botswana High Court scheduled a hearing for March 15, 2019, on the constitutionality of Botswana’s laws that make same-sex intimacy a crime. The Kenyan High Court in Nairobi set Feb. 22, 2019, as the date when it will announce whether it will overturn the law condemning people convicted of consensual gay sex to as much as 14 years in prison. The court challenge in Kenya came from the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), an independent human rights organization. The challenge in Botswana was filed by a gay man identified only as LM, who is supported by the local LGBT rights group @legabibo. Similar constitutional challenges to the anti-gay laws of #Barbados, #Jamaica, #Lebanon, #Malawi, and #Singapore are also on the horizon. Other challenges to anti-gay laws are reportedly in the works in #Cameroon, #Morocco, and #Tunisia. #LGBT rights #activists won major #victories in court in 2018. #Trinidad’s High Court ruled in April that that nation’s anti-gay law was unconstitutional. #India’s Supreme Court made a similar ruling in September. Via Rights Africa: https://rightsafrica.com/2018/12/11/2019-goal-eliminate-two-more-countries-anti-gay-laws/ #lgbtafrica #whereloveisillegal #queerafrica #decriminalizelgbt #decolonize #standup4humanrights #refugeeswelcome #africanrights #lovewins #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtlivesmatter #humanrights #lgbtrightsarehumanrights
  • Lifting up queerness in #BlackHistoryMonth. Tonight our executive director @kimahli_powell joined an incredible line-up of speakers and shared his story at Raising Our Voices: Sharing Black Canadian Stories. Thank you @historicacanada for the opportunity. #CelebrateBlackHistoryTO #lgbtq🌈 #blackexcellence #blackfuture #refugeeswelcome #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #lgbtlivesmatter #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #freelgbt #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth2019 #savelives
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    Lifting up queerness in #BlackHistoryMonth. Tonight our executive director @kimahli_powell joined an incredible line-up of speakers and shared his story at Raising Our Voices: Sharing Black Canadian Stories. Thank you @historicacanada for the opportunity. #CelebrateBlackHistoryTO #lgbtq🌈 #blackexcellence #blackfuture #refugeeswelcome #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #lgbtlivesmatter #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #freelgbt #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth2019 #savelives
  • #FlashbackFriday That time the leader of #Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov told the BBC that there are no gays in Chechnya. . . . In early 2017, the eyes of the world turned to Kadyrov, calling Chechnya a hotbed of severe atrocities against its #LGBT community. At that time, there were horrifying stories of mass detentions, torture and murders erupted, followed by mass evacuation of LGBT community members and global outrage. Novaya Gazeta’s lead reporter Elena Milashina, who broke the original story, says the first crisis never ended. “Nothing has really indicated that the 2017 crisis stopped,” Milashina says. “There was the first wave, and there were lots of people who got detained and tortured. And throughout the past two years the attacks were continuing, the numbers of those affected just got lower. Nobody cancelled the order for the [gay] cleansing.” https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/tamara-grigoryeva/chechnya-lgbt-crisis-20-what-questions-you-need-to-be-asking #EyesOnChechnya #decriminalizelgbt #lgbtq🌈 #humanrights #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #refugeeswelcome #freelgbt #whereloveisillegal #loveislove #standwithlgbt #standup4humanrights #legalizegay #lgbtlivesmatter @rusalgbt @novayagazeta
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    #FlashbackFriday That time the leader of #Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov told the BBC that there are no gays in Chechnya. . . . In early 2017, the eyes of the world turned to Kadyrov, calling Chechnya a hotbed of severe atrocities against its #LGBT community. At that time, there were horrifying stories of mass detentions, torture and murders erupted, followed by mass evacuation of LGBT community members and global outrage. Novaya Gazeta’s lead reporter Elena Milashina, who broke the original story, says the first crisis never ended. “Nothing has really indicated that the 2017 crisis stopped,” Milashina says. “There was the first wave, and there were lots of people who got detained and tortured. And throughout the past two years the attacks were continuing, the numbers of those affected just got lower. Nobody cancelled the order for the [gay] cleansing.” https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/tamara-grigoryeva/chechnya-lgbt-crisis-20-what-questions-you-need-to-be-asking #EyesOnChechnya #decriminalizelgbt #lgbtq🌈 #humanrights #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #refugeeswelcome #freelgbt #whereloveisillegal #loveislove #standwithlgbt #standup4humanrights #legalizegay #lgbtlivesmatter @rusalgbt @novayagazeta
  • Photos from the glorious first #MumbaiPride since #India repealed their colonial-era anti-sodomy law in 2018. In past years, #LGBTQ people attending Mumbai Pride would conceal their identities with masks in fear of arrest. Photos via @pink_news @gaystarnews @hindustantimes @hornet #decriminalizelgbt #mumbai #prideparade #pride🌈 #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #ready4repeal #repeal377a #standup4humanrights #lgbtindia #gayindian #lgbtmumbai #indiapride #humanrights #lgbtlivesmatter
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    Photos from the glorious first #MumbaiPride since #India repealed their colonial-era anti-sodomy law in 2018. In past years, #LGBTQ people attending Mumbai Pride would conceal their identities with masks in fear of arrest. Photos via @pink_news @gaystarnews @hindustantimes @hornet #decriminalizelgbt #mumbai #prideparade #pride🌈 #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #ready4repeal #repeal377a #standup4humanrights #lgbtindia #gayindian #lgbtmumbai #indiapride #humanrights #lgbtlivesmatter
  • #Ready4Repeal! Shout out to #LGBTQI activists and allies in #Singapore campaigning for the repeal of the colonial anti-gay law. #Section377, the anti-sodomy law, has the same British colonial roots as the law struck down in #India last year. #LGBTQI activists in Singapore hope to replicate that victory in 2019. #Decriminalizelgbt #whereloveisillegal #lgbtq🌈 #humanrights #dignity #justice #pinkdot #lgbtsingapore #lgbtasia #repeal377a #decolonize #legalizelove #lovewins #outinsingapore #repeal377 #lgbtactivism #solidarity @pinkdotsg @pinkdothk #lgbthongkong
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    #Ready4Repeal! Shout out to #LGBTQI activists and allies in #Singapore campaigning for the repeal of the colonial anti-gay law. #Section377, the anti-sodomy law, has the same British colonial roots as the law struck down in #India last year. #LGBTQI activists in Singapore hope to replicate that victory in 2019. #Decriminalizelgbt #whereloveisillegal #lgbtq🌈 #humanrights #dignity #justice #pinkdot #lgbtsingapore #lgbtasia #repeal377a #decolonize #legalizelove #lovewins #outinsingapore #repeal377 #lgbtactivism #solidarity @pinkdotsg @pinkdothk #lgbthongkong
  • It’s #BlackHistoryMonth! We celebrate and honour Black #LGBTQI trailblazers who fought for rights, resisted oppression and helped build a global movement. Scroll through these 10 photos beginning with #DavidKato, from #Uganda. Considered the father of Uganda's gay rights movement and described as Uganda's first openly gay man. Founder of @smug2004. He was bludgeoned to death in 2011 after he was outed in a newspaper that instructed readers to kill. His murder lit the flame for an international movement. #MarshaPJohnson, American trans woman and liberation activist, who was a key voice at the #Stonewall riots. #BayardRustin, American civil rights leader and advisor to #MartinLutherKing. He was instrumental in organizing the March on Washington. Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a Ugandan LGBTI rights activist. She is the founder and executive director of the LGBT rights organization @faruginfo and LGBT media @kuchutimes. James Baldwin, American author, writer and social critic, who brought visibility to the world, perhaps for the first time, of a black gay man. Bisi Alimi is a Nigerian gay rights and HIV activist, who risked everything when he came out on national television. @bisialimi Frank Mugisha from Uganda is a global champion of LGBTQI rights and has been a key voice in sounding the alarm on the American Christian evangelicals influencing laws in Africa. @frankmugisha American writer and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde, dedicated her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, homophobia, sexism, classism, and poverty. Her work continues to inspire and empower activists around the world. Angela Davis, a lifelong activist, prison abolitionist, lesbian and intersectional feminist, and civil rights activist. Mariella Franco, a Brazilian politician, out and proud lesbian from the flavelas of Rio de Janeiro, who was murdered last year. #BlackHistoryMonth2019 #BlackHistory #LGBTQHistory #lgbtq🌈 #blackandgay #decriminalizelgbt #gayrights #lgbtbrazil #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #lgbtqhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #lgbtlivesmatter #blacklgbtlivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights #wontbeerased #queerhistory
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    It’s #BlackHistoryMonth! We celebrate and honour Black #LGBTQI trailblazers who fought for rights, resisted oppression and helped build a global movement. Scroll through these 10 photos beginning with #DavidKato, from #Uganda. Considered the father of Uganda's gay rights movement and described as Uganda's first openly gay man. Founder of @smug2004. He was bludgeoned to death in 2011 after he was outed in a newspaper that instructed readers to kill. His murder lit the flame for an international movement. #MarshaPJohnson, American trans woman and liberation activist, who was a key voice at the #Stonewall riots. #BayardRustin, American civil rights leader and advisor to #MartinLutherKing. He was instrumental in organizing the March on Washington. Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a Ugandan LGBTI rights activist. She is the founder and executive director of the LGBT rights organization @faruginfo and LGBT media @kuchutimes. James Baldwin, American author, writer and social critic, who brought visibility to the world, perhaps for the first time, of a black gay man. Bisi Alimi is a Nigerian gay rights and HIV activist, who risked everything when he came out on national television. @bisialimi Frank Mugisha from Uganda is a global champion of LGBTQI rights and has been a key voice in sounding the alarm on the American Christian evangelicals influencing laws in Africa. @frankmugisha American writer and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde, dedicated her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, homophobia, sexism, classism, and poverty. Her work continues to inspire and empower activists around the world. Angela Davis, a lifelong activist, prison abolitionist, lesbian and intersectional feminist, and civil rights activist. Mariella Franco, a Brazilian politician, out and proud lesbian from the flavelas of Rio de Janeiro, who was murdered last year. #BlackHistoryMonth2019 #BlackHistory #LGBTQHistory #lgbtq🌈 #blackandgay #decriminalizelgbt #gayrights #lgbtbrazil #lgbtrightsarehumanrights #lgbtqhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #lgbtlivesmatter #blacklgbtlivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights #wontbeerased #queerhistory