Gay People Are Hunted Down and Beaten in a Country Once a Refuge
Additionally, the process in which investigations were completed exposed an individual's private life, irreparably damaging their relationships with family and friends. The effects rippled into local gay communities, limiting interaction among community members.There was fear of being outed by undercover investigators or by those who had been... See more
Executive Order 10450: Eisenhower and the Lavender Scare (U.S. National Park Service)
These communities were suppressed and erased by the British Empire and its harmful views on gender identity and sexuality. But the damage done by the legacy of homophobia and transphobia introduced by British colonialism doesn’t only live in the past. There are 64 countries around the world that still criminalise homosexuality, and many of them are
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Janjaweed militia in Darfur