Queer folks find a home online
LGBTQIA+ people have created new communities online to fight the isolation of lockdown, holding balls and collecting stories that create a safe space to gather and connect.
LGBTQIA+ people
Women’s shelters struggle for funding
South Africa has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence, but its shelters are battling to stay afloat – and government departments have been slow to explain why.
‘They told me homosexuals have no place in this world’
After fleeing Uganda to escape persecution, a transgender asylum seeker ended up in a Kenyan refugee camp – only to be targeted by groups there.