Posts tagged Nigeria

Three men in Nigeria have been sentenced to death by stoning for being gay.  A Sharia Court in Ningi handed down the sentence after hearing …

Controversial and homophobic Nigerian pastor, Temitope Balogun Joshua has been ‘excommunicated’ as it were from YouTube, following numerous times in which he had claim though …

Bolu Okupe, the son of openly homophobic former Nigerian Presidential spokesperson Dr Doyin Okupe, has defiantly come out as “Gay AF,” causing his farther to lament …

Dozens of attendees at a party in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, have been arrested by local authorities after a raid on a hotel room where an …

Kicking off tonight (Thursday, 28 November) and running tomorrow and all weekend, TILDE, Melbourne’s trans and gender diverse film festival is taking place at the …

Australia is the 17th safest country for LGBT travellers according to new research, ahead of the United States but behind Canada, the United Kingdom and …

A petition has been launched to free two gay Saudi journalists, who have been detained in Australia after seeking asylum in the country. Brian Greig …

The UK Home Office has refused at least 3,100 asylum claims from people identifying as LGBTIQ, from countries where same-sex acts are criminalised, it has …

As we look ahead to 2015, the Star Observer reflects — in no particular order — on some of the highs and lows of gay and lesbian news in 2014, and what had people around Australia talking.

THE Ethiopian government is preparing to further strengthen its anti-gay laws this week, with a bill to make homosexual acts a non-pardonable offence. The country’s Council …