Fear and Loathing

Egypt: Human Rights and solidarity in Egypt’s LGBTQ crisis

It’s a sick and repellent paradox that the Egyptian state media smears Egyptian LGBTQ people as tools of foreign influences, while they’ve been largely abandoned by their absentee, self-styled friends in northern LGBTQ groups. 

Azerbaijani: Gay men and trans women were suddenly rounded up in Azerbaijan. Here’s why.

Early in September, an investigative journalism coalition called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) released a report on something called the Azerbaijani Laundromat, apparently a slush fund that for two years laundered $2.9 billion in cash that helped Azerbaijani elites and officials buy luxury goods and that paid European lobbyists and politicians to support Azerbaijan. 

U.N. Officials Condemn Arrests of Gays in Azerbaijan, Egypt and Indonesia

United Nations officials on Friday condemned the recent mass arrests of gay and transgender people in Azerbaijan, Egypt and Indonesia, saying that the authorities in those countries had violated international law by detaining, mistreating and torturing them.

South Africa: LGBT inclusion for better African economies

Kholekile Mnisi is a marketing communications specialist, blogger, writer and gender activist.

Modern African states are neglecting the economic costs of homophobia at their own peril.