There is a dangerous assumption that the South African health department’s sex worker programmes are able to assist all sex workers. However, the reality is that while all sex workers experience tough challenges such as harassment, police brutality, and abuse from clients in their line of work, transgender sex workers face even greater challenges including discrimination from society as well as from fellow sex workers. By THUTHUKILE MBATHA.
Today is International Trans Day of Visibility. As trans people, we can feel lost and lonely at times especially if we don’t know other people who are like us. In our community, we rely heavily Read more…
Only two MPs voted against Uganda’s anti-LGBT bill, which passed this week. We talk to one of them, Fox Odoi-Oywelowo Fox Odoi-Oywelowo is one of only two Ugandan MPs who voted against the country’s controversial Read more…
Twenty-four people have been arrested in Burundi as part of a security crackdown on “homosexual practices,” a judicial source and an activist told AFP on Friday. NAIROBI — The arrests took place on February 23 Read more…
