Taboo on homosexuality

• Youth activists in James Town, Accra, Ghana, try to stop a marriage between two women (JHR, March 11)

• Students attacked after hanging out at a holebi party in Leuven, Belgium (Vandaag.be, February 25)

• Four men arrested for killing Ihsane Jarfi when he left a holebibar in Liège, Belgium (De Morgen, May 4)

• Despite tough anti-gay bill of 2009, which proposed the death penalty for sexual minorities, Uganda’s gays see some progress in public opinion war (Washington Post, March 20)

More:

• Gay rights in Uganda (PBS, February 24)
• 'Hang them': Uganda paper publishes photos of gays (NWOR)

17th of May, international day against homophobia:

• Homophobia Day 2012
• Dag tegen homofobie (Franky's blog, in Dutch)
• Vimeo
• Shortfilm 'Homophobia' by  Gregor Schmidinger (Vangardist)

Update:

• The Poltics of Being Gay (Farah Momen at JHR Ghana on June 6, 2012)
• “Pedophiles or other sexual deviants are not welcome in Ghana.” (Noah Wernikowski at JHR Ghana on June 18, 2012)
• Nigerian lawmakers have approved a bill banning same-sex marriage, setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders. (BBC on May 30, 2013)