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Zimbabwe police move to shut down pro-LGBT group
GALZ website Police in Zimbabwe are seeking to shut down the gay-rights organization GALZ as an unregistered enterprise. The group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe disputed the police accusation, and did...
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GOP: 76 countries’ anti-gay laws are OK
The Republican Party wants the United States to stop pushing for repeal of 76 countries’ laws that make homosexuality a crime. In its newly unveiled 2012 party platform, the GOP criticizes the Obama...
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Zimbabwe LGBT group resists raids, arrests, harassment
GALZ website Continuing harassment from Zimbabwe police hasn’t succeeded in silencing the activist group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe. After repeated police raids, arrests of dozens of its members and...
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Activists: Zimbabwe media make up anti-gay stories
Did police in a suburb of the Zimbabwean city of Kadoma arrest a suspected gay couple on charges of sodomy? Zimbabwe’s official newspaper, The Herald, reported it. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe...
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Zimbabwe police vs. LGBT rights group
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) Police in Zimbabwe say they’re still investigating the group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, or GALZ, and have refused to return property...
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A night in hell, Zimbabwe style
GALZ compound in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 2009. (Photo courtesy of GlobalGayz.com) In this year-end recollection, Miles Tanhira of the activist group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) describes last...
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LGBTs worry as Zimbabwe moves to restrict rights
Zimbabwean LGBTI people are between a rock and a hard place. (Photo by Miles Rutendo Tanhira) The long-awaited Zimbabwean draft Constitution outlaws same-sex marriage, which has aroused concern in the...
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Zimbabwe activists are back in business
GALZ report on human rights report in Zimbabwe in 2011 The battle continues to assure basic human rights for LGBT people in Zimbabwe despite government harassment. The group Gays and Lesbians of...
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From Botox to gay rights
(The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle wrote this column for the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News about the creation of the Erasing 76 Crimes blog and the recent publication of the book From Wrongs to Gay...
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LGBT rights group cheers new Zimbabwe constitution
Chesterfield Samba, director of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) says its members welcome the recent overwhelming vote in favor of the country’s new constitution,...
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Zimbabwe activists reject call for anti-gay crackdown
Map of Zimbabwe shows locations of Bulawayo and Harare Zimbabwean LGBT activists have slammed a Bulawayo-based anti-gay political organisation that is calling on the country to ban local groups that...
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Attack on LGBT group in Zimbabwe; police to the rescue
GALZ website A group of young men, apparently acting as a youth militia for an unidentified anti-gay organization, attacked the offices of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) today, threatened staff...
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe seeks life in prison for homosexuals
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has resume his verbal attacks on LGBT people, promising that he will make the country a “hell”...
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Court rules for LGBT rights group in Zimbabwe
Attorney Tonderai Bhatasara (holding bag) and the GALZ team outside the court. (Photo courtesy of GALZ and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.) Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) today won a court...
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Zimbabwe: Two victories for GALZ
GALZ website Barely a month after winning a High Court battle with the police, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) scored another court victory this week, winning a case in which the organisation was...
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Zimbabwe police again raid LGBT rights meeting
Bronte Hotel in Harare Police in Zimbabwe today stormed a local hotel where human rights defenders were attending a media training workshop by Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ). They arrested two of...
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Zimbabwe: Preacher, don’t spew anti-gay bias
Emmanuel Makandiwa (Photo courtesy of the Sunday Mail) Activists in Zimbabwe are challenging a popular local preacher’s description of homosexuals as mentally ill, including homosexual “politicians,...
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35 injured in anti-gay attack in Zimbabwe
The New Zimbabwe newspaper reported today: GALZ logo Armed men left 35 people injured after they stormed a gay party and beat up guests in Harare over the weekend, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)...
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HIV-positive straight ally in Zimbabwe wins Kato Award
Martha Tholanah at a committee meeting. Zimbabwean women’s and LGBTI rights activist Martha Tholanah is the winner of this year’s David Kato Vision & Voice Award, which honors people working for...
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Buoyed by Supreme Court, will U.S. church help LGBT Africans?
U.S. Supreme Court building On the same day when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all states must recognize same-sex marriages, the progressive U.S.-based Episcopal Church is considering whether to...
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