Although sexual minorities in Africa continue to face harsh penalties for same-sex
relationships, strong anti-homophobic resistance exists across the continent. This book …

Understandings of African lesbian sexualities have been affected by silence, repression,
and uncertainty. The subject of lesbian experiences and sexualities in Africa constitutes an …

The colonialist and Cold War consolidation of area studies and African studies in the United
States has been well documented, although alternative origin stories of the rise of African …

Research on political homophobia in contemporary African nations tends to focus on the
legal, political and social consequences of such homophobia. However, this work remains …

The tickets promised a 9 pm start, but as the hour approached midnight guests were still
filing into the villa in Abidjan's Deux Plateaux neighborhood. There were boys who'd paired …

Throughout the 2000s, donor organizations successfully argued for the inclusion of men
who have sex with men (msm) in the global response to HIV/AIDS. These efforts have had …

African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face
various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and …

African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) organizing has become
transnational in scope, partly due to the efforts of activists who use digital strategies to bring …

Among sexual and gender minorities in Côte d'Ivoire, travestis are defined as individuals
born anatomically male who live as women on a full-or part-time basis. Travestis encounter …

In the fight against concentrated HIV epidemics, men who have sex with men (MSM) are
often framed as a homogeneous population, with little attention paid to sexual and gender …