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Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
News

Burkina Faso's military junta: 'Homosexuality will be punished by the law'

Military leaders did not reveal the extent of the ban — whether it is against LGBTQ+ identity broadly or specifically those in same-sex relationships, nor what the sentences will entail.

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World

Awkward in Africa

In the second half of his African tale, out Peace Corps volunteer Philippe Gosselin meets the gay underground in Senegal and deals with an unwitting flirt in Burkina Faso

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World

Into Africa and the closet Part I

Out Peace Corps volunteer Philippe Gosselin finds himself reluctantly hiding his sexual identity when he arrives in Burkina Faso. Then the questions about why he's single begin. What's a gay man to do?

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UN Gay Rights are Human Rights

Gay Pride celebration and parade at North Beach
Voices

We need to reclaim pan-Africanism through love—for everyone

African LGBTQ+ people face violence, discrimination, and denial of their rights in the name of "African values." But love is a pan-African issue, writes Human Rights Watch's Larissa Kojoué.

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Art

Artist Thomas Allen Harris on Black Gay Identity