The U.S. Agency for International Development and other bilateral donors announced last week a new commitment to infuse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights into their development agendas. The move, however, left some activists and civil society leaders to wonder: Where does the world’s largest multilateral donor stand on LGBTI rights? The World Bank …
In the early days AIDS was a male disease. Long-distance truck drivers, miners, and other migrant workers got it in the cities; gay men contracted it before they knew how it was spread; and people who use drugs found it in their blood after they had shared needles. It seemed that the risks that men …
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Bisi Alimi, the first open gay rights activist from Lagos Nigeria, tells us the story of his friend Ibrahim – his best friend who died of AIDS in a country ruled by religion and extreme conservatism. His mission is to …
DAR ES SALAAM – Just over 20 years ago, South African photographer Kevin Carter shocked the world with a controversial photograph of a famished young Sudanese child being watched by a vulture during a famine. Critics slammed the shot as “disaster porn,” calling it yet another example of how the international media sensationalize African problems. …
AROUND THE WORLD, IT CAN BE VERY HARD TO LIVE AS AN OPENLY HAY MAN. HOST MICHEL MARTIN LEARNS MORE FROM TWO LGBT ACTIVISTS: JAMACIAN MAURICE TOMLINSON AND NIGERIAN BISI ALIMI. Listen To Interview > TRANSCRIPT MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: To a related story now. In the seven years that we've been on the air, we've …