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LGBT activists may be raising concern over Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, who a leading candidate to replace Pope Benedict XVI, as he’s voiced his support for anti-gay bills in Africa.

The hactivist group Anonymous hacked into and defaced the Ugandan government’s websites because of the African nation’s ongoing official homophobia.

A British theater producer just missed spending two years in a Ugandan jail after a court dismissed charges against him for staging a play about gay life in the homophobic East African country.

After vowing to pass Uganda’s controversial anti-gay law, the country’s Parliament speaker was blessed by Pope Benedict XVI when she went to Rome to attend a human rights conference.

Uganda parliament says that the East African country’s controversial "kill the gays" bill could be passed before Christmas as government officials are set to debate the measure any day.

Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo of the African nation of Uganda said it would ban nearly 40 non-governmental programs because they ’promoted homosexuality’ as part of an internal war against its LGBT citizens.

Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, spoke about the plight of LGBT people in the East African country at Georgetown University on Monday.

In a joint interview with Tony Blair, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize winner, voiced her support for an anti-gay law.

Anti-gay activists, Scott Lively, was recently sued by a Ugandan gay rights group for violating international law by promoting a proposed legislation that could sentence Ugandan gays to death.

Hoping to draw attention to what they describe as The Fellowship’s global anti-LGBT agenda, roughly two dozen members of GetEQUAL and other groups protested outside the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., earlier on Thursday.