New US-sponsored LGBTI teacher-training curriculum

By Wanda Hennig. Homophobia is a grim reality in much of Africa. Not only are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex – LGBTI – rights nonexistent in many countries, but penalties (including death and imprisonment) and more intense crack-downs (in Nigeria and Uganda, for example) are a harsh fact of life.
In South Africa, while the Constitution was the first in Africa to explicitly recognise the rights of gay and lesbian individuals, many who self-identify as LGBTI or are assumed to be LGBTI continue to be denied rights and citizenship through forms of homophobia. Read more...