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afrol News / Gender Links, 19 June - The arrest of three Ugandan activists protesting the exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities from HIV/AIDS prevention efforts sparked hot debate among the 1,700 global participants of the HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting held in Kampala earlier this month.

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» 26.05.2008 - IGLHRC tackles Gambian leader
» 10.04.2008 - Tutu condemns gay persecution
» 27.02.2008 - Activists petition Morocco
» 25.02.2008 - Senegalese homosexuals flee
» 18.02.2008 - Senegalese anti-gay protesters teargased
» 13.02.2008 - Senegal urged to legalise gay
» 07.02.2008 - 'Stop criminalizing HIV'
» 29.11.2007 - Somali gay bloggers receive death threats
» 19.11.2007 - Somalis launch public gay site
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 10.10.2007 - Joburg Pride magnetises thousands
» 22.08.2007 - Ugandans defend gay sex ban
» 10.08.2007 - 18 gay Nigerians remanded
» 05.03.2007 - Homophobia in Africa "accelerates AIDS spread"
» 30.11.2006 - Gay marriage now legal in South Africa
» 24.11.2006 - Homosexuality now debated all over Africa
» 14.11.2006 - South Africa legalises same-sex weddings
» 01.11.2006 - Mozambique discovers its gay minority
» 20.10.2006 - Marriage bill frustrates SA's same-sex couples
» 11.10.2006 - UN condemns anti-gay laws of Cameroon
» 05.09.2006 - Ghana turns down homosexuals' bid for recognition
» 24.03.2006 - Nigeria urged not to "criminalise gay rights"
» 20.03.2006 - Uganda's gays left out of HIV/AIDS strategy
» 24.02.2006 - Tutu defends resistance against racism, homophobia, oppression
» 02.12.2005 - Church, ANC welcome same-sex marriage ruling
» 01.12.2005 - Same-sex marriage approved in South Africa
» 25.07.2005 - 17 homosexuals face charges in Cameroon
» 11.07.2005 - Fears of enhanced gay repression in Uganda
» 08.07.2005 - Death sentence for homosexual act in Nigeria
» 28.01.2005 - Zimbabwe gay group wins international award
» 13.01.2005 - Sierra Leone lesbian activist murder "not a hate crime"
» 22.12.2004 - South Africa govt to appeal gay marriage ruling
» 01.12.2004 - South African court legalises gay marriage
» 21.10.2004 - South Africans disapprove of homosexuals, abortion
» 19.08.2004 - Ghana's gays organise to fight British criminal law
» 07.07.2004 - Desmond Tutu: "Homophobia equals apartheid"
» 27.04.2004 - Zanzibar threatened with tourism boycott
» 04.02.2004 - Inquiry documents ill-treatment of SA gays in prison
» 05.01.2004 - Congolese Anglican Church condemns homosexuality
» 09.12.2003 - Botswana's Church leaders denounce gay Bishop
» 02.12.2003 - South African AIDS activists nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
» 03.06.2003 - Church of Nigeria breaks with pro-gay churches
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