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18 May 2012- African homosexuals who flee persecution in their own countries are abducted, beaten and raped in the places where they seek asylum, a study of Kenya and Uganda has found.
Read more: Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya
18 May 2012- Malawi's new president says she will repeal the country's ban on homosexual acts.
18 May 2012- Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has refused to make a public stand on the gay rights debate, insisting he would only make his views known once ongoing constitutional reforms have been completed.
Read more: Zimbabwe's deputy prime minister ducks gay question
17 May 2012- Uganda- Ugandan gay activists have urged President Yoweri Museveni's government to repeal the penal code that outlaws homosexuality in the East African country.
Read more: Ugandan gay activists seek repeal of anti-homosexual penal code
17 May 2012- Tehran, Iran- Tehran’s latest attacks on its gays remind the rest of us that our differences with the regime extend far beyond the nuclear issue.