Prison for consensual gay sex: the last 175 prisoner was only released from prison in 2004 after serving a ten-year sentence. Manuel Izdebski on an incredible story and the insanity of criminalisation.
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6,000 people in front of the Brandenburg Gate to commemorate the victims of Orlando, show solidarity with their families and set an example against homophobia and transphobia - Margot Schlönzke and Ryan Stecken are to thank for this moving action last Saturday, 17 June 2016.
Mahmoud flees the Syrian civil war and eventually ends up in Germany. As a well-known gay activist, he is quickly granted asylum. Here he explains why he felt more helpless in the Berlin refugee centre than in Assad's secret prison.
As if the risky, often weeks-long flight was not stressful enough, gay refugees in particular are repeatedly subjected to homophobic hostility or even violent attacks by their flatmates in the collective accommodation centres.
They are persecuted and discriminated against in their home country because of their homosexuality and now hope to find protection in Germany. However, the authorities do not make it easy for many LGBT refugees.
The Syrian is going to Islamise the West, the asylum seeker who is being ripped off even has a smartphone, and Germans should only help Germans - on Facebook, these kinds of right-wing ideology are also posted by gays. High time for a clear edge.
According to a report by Human Rights Watch, there were 231 acts of violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trans* people (LGBTs) in Jamaica between 2009 and 2012. Together with the anti-gay laws, this is fuelling the HIV epidemic on the island.
In his novel "We Propagandists", Gabriel Wolkenfeld provides a very personal insight into Russian living conditions at the time of the "homo-propaganda" law.
"I admire their courage," says Bertho Makso from Proud Lebanon, referring to gay refugees who have fled to Lebanon from Syria in particular, but also from Palestine, Sudan and Iraq.
n the first part of the report, Kojobesia talked about his youth as a gay man in Ghana. Here he also had experiences with sex work. This is how Kojobesia came to human rights work.
