According to Think Progress, in a draft of its platform, the Republican party is taking a stand on the point of the persecution of gays on the African continent. But it’s for the countries persecuting gays: Recently, the Republican National Convention accidentally leaked a draft of the party’s foreign policy platform. The subsection on foreign [...]

To hear of human rights abuses of Uganda’s LGBTQ population is not new, sadly. Gay activist David Kato was the father of the Uganda’s LGBTQ rights movement. To many of his fellow countrymen Kato was a dead man walking once his homosexuality became public. The country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill dubbed “Kill the Gays bill” criminalizes same-sex [...]