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Articles Football Kenya Lesbian LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

Kenya’s lesbian footballers fight for the right to play

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All Imani wanted to do was to play football. But Kenyan fans, gossiping about her sexuality, had other ideas. “That one is always with girls,” Imani overheard one man saying as she was in the middle of a match in the coastal city of Mombasa. “Jersey number four, she is a renowned lesbian.” There and then, Imani knew her game was over. She faked an injury and went straight home, worried for her safety in a country where discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is rife and can lead to abuse including…

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Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Pakistan

Pakistan’s digital ID card keeps millions locked out

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After three years of repeated attempts to get her digital national identity card, Rubina – a woman from the Pakistani city of Karachi – decided to take her battle to court, winning a landmark victory. Until then, Pakistanis had not been able to get the Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) unless they presented their father’s ID card – an impossibility for many people, including those like Rubina who were raised by single mothers. The card is vital to vote, access government benefits including public schools and healthcare, open a bank…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly social media

Are social media firms doing enough to protect LGBTQ+ users?

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Major social media companies are not doing enough to protect LGBTQ+ users from abuse and harassment on their platforms, an analysis by U.S. rights group GLAAD has found. The index analysed five leading platforms – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok – all of which were ranked as having “inadequate” measures to support and protect LGBTQ+ users. Each scored less than 50 out of 100. “Social media platforms and companies are prioritizing profit over LGBTQ safety and lives,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the president of GLAAD, in an introduction to…

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Abortion Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Roe v. Wade Trans

Facing abortion barriers, trans men warn of the risks

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It was getting an abortion after being raped as a teenager that drove transgender man Adri Perez to help set up an LGBTQ-inclusive fund in the U.S. state of Texas to support others wanting to end their pregnancies. The Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalised abortion in the United States has spotlighted global inequalities in access to the procedure, including for trans men, who face challenges from gendered abortion laws to economic marginalisation and discrimination. For Perez, co-founder of the Texas-based West Fund –…

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Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly Rwanda

Is Rwanda a safe place to send LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from the UK?

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LGBTQ+ rights groups are concerned that gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees could face persecution if they are sent to Rwanda under Britain’s policy to deport some asylum seekers to the East African nation. Britain says asylum seekers who enter the country illegally could be flown to Rwanda, where they will be allowed to seek asylum or ask to be returned to their home countries. The policy has been condemned by the U.N. refugee agency and rights groups, while the European Court of Human Rights intervened to stop the first plane…

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Articles health LGBTQ+ News Life Monkeypox News Openly

Europe’s monkeypox outbreak sparks fears of anti-LGBTQ+ backlash

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When Louis, a 29-year-old gay man, realised he had caught something “nasty”, the doctor initially thought it was herpes. His symptoms started with a rash, followed by a high temperature and blisters on his face. “I was warning any guys I’d had contact with, ‘Be careful – I’ve got something that’s weird’,” Louis, who asked not to use his real name to protect his identity, said by phone. “I called the doctor again and that time he said it was monkeypox.” Louis, who is French and lives in Berlin, is…

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Articles Cuba LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

Cuba marks Latin America’s first LGBTQ+ history month

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Cuba has become the first Latin American country to celebrate LGBTQ+ history month, with advocates hoping the milestone spurs other nations to mark old wins and prevent new discrimination. Dozens of events are scheduled throughout May, said founder Raul Perez Monzon, a historian and assistant professor at the University of Havana. Lectures, panel discussions, workshops and more will “promote inclusion” and “reflect on current issues in our country,” Perez said in an email. “LGBTQ+ History Month is intended to help eliminate many years of discrimination,” he added. “LGBTQ+ people have…

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Articles germany LGBTQ+ News Life News Openly

Haunted by sterilisations, trans Germans fight for compensation

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When Tsepo Bollwinkel’s wife gave birth to their first child, there was joy but also painful memories for the transgender German, who was forced to undergo sterilisation in order to change legal gender in the 1990s. At least 10,000 people were sterilised before the requirement was struck down in 2011, according to Germany’s Bundesverband Trans* (BvT) advocacy group, but several European nations still require trans sterilisation even as public rejection of the practice grows. “I would have liked to give birth to a child,” Bollwinkel, a 60-year-old life coach who…

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America Articles LGBTQ+ News Life Marriage News Openly Roe v. Wade Same-sex marriage Supreme Court

Roe v. Wade: Is same-sex marriage at risk after US Supreme Court leak?

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A leaked US Supreme Court opinion suggesting justices are poised to overturn abortion rights has left LGBTQ+ advocacy groups fearful that same-sex marriage could also be at risk. If finalized, the opinion would strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that established the right to abortion. LGBTQ+ advocates fear that it could open the door to legal challenges targeting gay marriage and other landmark civil rights rulings at the country’s top court, which holds a six-to-three conservative majority. Some expressed concerns that after decades of advances in civil…

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Articles Culture LGBTQ+ News Mark Ravenhill News Openly

My work puts art before politics, says LGBTQ+ playwright Mark Ravenhill

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LGBTQ+ theatre should put art before politics and stop pushing a social agenda, said top British playwright Mark Ravenhill ahead of his “queer reinvention” of Puccini’s opera “La Boheme”. Known globally for his 1990s megahit “Shopping and Fucking”, Ravenhill said LGBTQ+ arts must first and foremost entertain; he even rewrote the official website description of his new opera to reflect that priority. “I’m not particularly interested in art as an agent of social change,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview ahead of Thursday’s gala opening. “I…

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