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Gay in Ghana
From gay-bashings to AIDS. (6-24-04)

Study: MSM and HIV in Ghana
Researcher concludes you can't fight AIDS while ignoring gay and bisexual men. Complete study. (6-24-04)

Brazil's AIDS Model: A Global Blueprint?
Not as easy as it looks. (9-4-03)

Gay Rights Dawn in Ghana
Faced with prison or blackmail, queers begin to organize. (8-27-03)

Gay Bishop Roils Anglican Unity
Can a global schism be avoided? (8-14-03)

Nation-Razing in Liberia
Will Bush bite peace-keeping bullet? (7-3-03)

Creating Community in Exile
One Face of Gay Africa: Part 2. Cheikh Traoré talks about his life in London and his struggle to "invent this notion of being gay and African." (12-12-02)

Long Road Home
One Face of Gay Africa: Part 1. Cheikh Traoré is a 35 year-old AIDS educator working with African communities in London. He talks about his work, and what it was like growing up gay in West Africa. (12-4-02)

Nigerian Heros
Fed up with abject poverty in the midst of oil riches, Nigerian women stormed ChevronTexaco oil producing installations. (7-19-02)

The République's Tango
Arab and black French citizens make up about 10 percent of the country, but are represented in parliament by only one black member from mainland France. Post-Le Pen elections look no different. (6-10-02)

Justice for Gays in Egypt: Try, Try Again
Egyptian president Mubarak orders a new look at the cases of the 52 presumed gay men prosecuted in the "Queen Boat Trial." Why? (5-26-02)

Priests' Forgotten Victims
If the Catholic Church succeeds in defining predatory priests as a gay problem, it is partly because the public has forgotten last year's scandal: the abuse of African nuns. (5-1-02)

April's Fools
Denzel Washington descends into Zimbabwe's hornet's nest of post-election violence, and homophobic scandal bearing 2,500 solid chocolate Easter eggs. (4-5-02)

Butcher Boys and Zimbabwe
Paving the way for Mugabe's reelection, violence has becomes the de facto means of political expression in Zimbabwe. A graphic look at the consequences. (3-20-02)