AFRICA
LGBTQ
WHAT DOES LGBTQIA MEAN?
LGBTQ RELATED TOPICS
LGBT RIGHTS IN AFRICA
SEXUALITY AND CULTURE
IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA
LGBTQ+ RIGHTS AFRICA
AFRICA LGBTQ LINKS
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SECTION 1
WHAT DOES
LGBTQIA
MEAN?
LGB
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL
LGBT
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL
TRANSGENDER
LGBTQ
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL
TRANSGENDER QUEER/QUESTIONING
LGBTIQ
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL
TRANSGENDER INTERSEX QUESTIONING
GLBT
GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL
TRANSGENDER
GLBTQ
GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL
TRANSGENDER QUEER/QUESTIONING
Lesbian
A female- identified person who is attracted romantically, physically,
or emotionally to another female-identified person.
Gay
A person, mainly a male-identified person, who is attracted romantically,
physically, or emotionally to another a person of the same sex.
Bisexual
A person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to both
men and women.
Transgender
A person who is a member of a gender other than that expected based on
anatomical sex.
Queer
An umbrella term which embraces a variety of sexual preferences, orientations,
and habits of those who do not adhere to the heterosexual and cisgender majority.
The term queer includes, but is not exclusive to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals,
transpeople, and intersex persons, traditionally, this term is derogatory and
hurtful, however, many people who do not adhere to sexual and/or gender norms
use it to self-identify in a positive way.
Intersex
Someone who’s physical sex characteristics are not categorized as exclusively
male or exclusively female.
Asexual
A person who does not have a sexual orientation. A person that does not experience
a sexual attraction but can experience a romantic, emotional, or aesthetic attraction
to another person.
Ally
A person who does not identify as LGBTQIA, but supports the rights and safety of
those who do.
What Does LGBTQIA mean?
http://tahoesafealliance.org/for-lgbqtia/what-does-lgbtqia-mean/
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SECTION 2
LGBTQ
RELATED
TOPICS
LGBT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT
HOMOSEXUALITY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality
Gay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay
Lesbian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian
Bisexuality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality
Transgender
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender
Category:Transgender
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transgender
Same-sex relationship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_relationship
Homophobia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia
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LGBT
RIGHTS
IN
AFRICA
With the exception of South Africa and Cape Verde, lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) rights in Africa are limited in comparison to Western
Europe and much of the Americas and Oceania.
LGBT rights in Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Africa
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SEXUALITY
AND
CULTURE
IN
POSTCOLONIAL
AFRICA
In Africa, there is a contradiction in attitude towards sex and sexuality.
Many people on the continent shy away from discussing sex. In most African
cities and villages, overt public display of affection is not too common.
Yet, African music, dance and other art forms exude eroticism and sexuality.
Although the same may be said of Western music and dance, sexuality in the
West is not a thing of shame or concealment as in most parts of Africa.
In most African societies, religion, including traditional African religions,
Christianity and Islam continue to influence sexual thoughts, perceptions and
acts. In other words, religion shapes the cultural perception of sexuality,
and if fashion is one of those means through which culture is expressed, it
is right to say that religion is also a factor in the genderisation of fashion
and sexuality.
Sexuality and Culture
in Postcolonial Africa
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/79780/sexuality-and-culture-postcolonial-africa
Africa:
The Limits of Imagining Pleasure
Writing the History of African Sex
https://allafrica.com/stories/201806080626.html
How African elders
stopped talking to
the youth about sex
https://thisisafrica.me/african-identities/african-elders-stopped-talking-youth-sex/
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LGBTQ+
RIGHTS
AFRICA
LGBTQ+ Rights Are Changing Across Africa. But It's a Thorny Process.
Of Africa's 54 countries, 34 maintain laws criminalising homosexuality.
That number includes the continent's largest, Nigeria – where anti-gay
laws justify violence and intimidation, and where people are quick to
dismiss any support for LGBTQ rights.
LGBTQ+ Rights Are
Changing Across Africa
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/d3akxv/lgbtqia-rights-law-africa-homosexuality-nigeria-angola-botswana
Did Homosexuality
Exist In Africa
Before Colonialism
& Is It UnAfrican?
https://www.afrikaiswoke.com/2019/10/25/is-homosexuality-unafrican/
Out Right, Africa
LGBTIQ, human rights
https://outrightinternational.org/region/africa
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Queer folks existed in
pre-colonial Africa and
y'all can stay mad
http://blackyouthproject.com/queer-folks-existed-in-pre-colonial-africa-and-yall-can-stay-mad/
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AFRICA
LGBTQ
LINKS
Africa LGBT rights
https://www.hrw.org/tag/africa-lgbt-rights
African sexuality and the
legacy of imported homophobia
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/african-sexuality-and-legacy-imported-homophobia
Africa’s quiet
LGBT revolution
https://qz.com/1291306/africas-quiet-lgbt-revolution/
Coalition of
African Lesbians
http://www.cal.org.za
Gender Variation and Same-Sex
Relations in Precolonial Times
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201707/gender-variation-and-same-sex-relations-in-precolonial-times
Homosexuality is
not un-African
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/homosexuality-africamuseveniugandanigeriaethiopia.html
If you say being gay
is not African, you
don't know your history
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/being-gay-african-history-homosexuality-christianity
Let’s Talk about Sex
(and Race and Colonialism)
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/06/09/lets-talk-about-sex-and-race-and-colonialism/
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LGBT Health and Rights
in East Africa: A Snapshot of
Successes and Challenges
for the Advocacy Community
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/lgbt-health-and-rights-east-africa-snapshot-successes-and-challenges-advocacy-community
LGBT rights + Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/lgbt-rights+africa
LGBT rights in Africa
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c8nq32jwjp0t/lgbt-rights-in-africa
LGBT Rights in
South Africa
https://www.equaldex.com/region/south-africa
Mapping anti-gay
laws in Africa
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/lgbti-lgbt-gay-human-rights-law-africa-uganda-kenya-nigeria-cameroon
The myth of
“heterosexual Africa”
https://isreview.org/issue/71/myth-heterosexual-africa
Progress for gay
rights in Africa
still isn't inevitable
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/africa/africa-lgbtq-equality-analysis-intl/index.html
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Queering History,
Queering Africa
https://www.albany.edu/faculty/jhobson/middle_passages/queerafrica/essay.html
Same-sex relationships
in pre-colonial times
www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-march-2013/sex-in-the-archives-same-sex-relationships-in-pre-colonial-times
Sexuality and Culture
in Postcolonial Africa
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/79780/sexuality-and-culture-postcolonial-africa
'Un-African'? Photos
Challenge Notions
Of LGBTQ Identity In
The African Diaspora
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/02/774039009/un-african-photos-challenge-notions-of-lgbtq-identity-in-the-african-diaspora
The Unfulfilled Promise of
LGBTQ Rights in South Africa
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/southafrica-lgbtq-rights/593050/
Unmasking the Colonial
Silence: Sexuality in Africa
in the Post Colonial Context
https://africafaith.org.za/unmasking-the-colonial-silence-sexuality-in-africa-in-the-post-colonial-context/
What are the LGBT
laws in Africa?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-48875683/what-are-the-lgbt-laws-in-africa
Why is homosexuality still taboo
in many African countries?
https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-homosexuality-still-taboo-in-many-african-countries/a-51528737
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400
YEARS OF
INEQUALITY
http://www.400yearsofinequality.org/
Celebrating
African American
Culture & History
Black History Month
http://guides.hmcpl.org/c.php?g=790427&p=5657381
Racial Equity
Resource Guide
http://www.racialequityresourceguide.org/organizations/organizations/sectionFilter/Racial%20Healing
Understanding
Prejudice
https://secure.understandingprejudice.org/
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Equal Justice
Initiative
https://eji.org/
The Collective
Black People Movement
(CBPM)
http://cbpm.org/index.html
TRIP DOWN
MEMORY LANE
https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/
A Gathering
of Readers
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~gathread/index.html
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Malawi
Project
http://www.malawiproject.org/
Afro Kids
http://www.afrokids.com/
THE FREEMAN
INSTITUTE
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/
Africa
Resource
http://www.africaresource.com/
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Real History
World Wide
http://www.realhistoryww.com/
Quatr.us
http://quatr.us/
African-American
Resources
http://www.ushistory.org/more/african-american.htm
African American
Studies Library
Research Guide
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/aframer.htm
African Music
Encyclopedia
http://africanmusic.org/
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AFROPEDEA
http://www.afropedia.org
World Afropedia
http://worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page
African
Indigenous Science
and Knowledge Systems
http://www.africahistory.net/
Natives Wiki
http://tribalspedia.wikia.com/wiki/Natives_Wiki
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Islamic Wiki
http://islam.wikia.com/
Sexism
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/
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