Latest from the frontline
In April 2017, Nthabiseng Mokanyane’s close childhood friend Nonkie Smous was raped and murdered because she was a lesbian. Now Nthabiseng, 25, is calling for religious and government leaders to respond to escalating threats against the lesbian community in Kroonstad, South Africa....
4 min read | 19 Nov 2017
My name is Jessica Albert. I wasn't born with that name, but that is what I am now called. Being born in Nigeria, this was a big problem as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) are often rejected by their families, churches and schools....
2 min read | 13 Oct 2017
At the age of 14 Tinashe told his grandmother that he was gay and was kicked out of the house when his grandfather found out. In 2016, age 17, he had to flee his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in fear of his life....
3 min read | 06 Jun 2017
Superintendent Horace Chabuka, Blantyre’s community policing coordinator, used to think that gay people should not be accepted. But thanks to a small, but ambitious, community organisation in Malawi he has become a key ally in the fight for the protection of sexual minorities....
4 min read | 19 Mar 2017
Imagine finding out your mother took part in a protest – against who you are. That’s what happened to 29-year-old transgender woman Shy Amanda, from Blanytre, Malawi....
3 min read | 19 Feb 2017
“I feel I can’t believe I’m this person because I thought my life had really ended with what happened when I was 12.”...
4 min read | 23 Aug 2016
For HIV positive women, giving birth is dangerous. A community mapping...
2 min read | 17 Jul 2014
