The LGBTQIA+ community in Africa faces significant challenges and systemic discrimination, rooted in historical colonial legacies and reinforced by cultural norms and religious beliefs. In seeking foreign aid to safeguard our rights, the LGBTQIA+ community isn’t surrendering to neocolonialism but rather engaging in an anti-colonial struggle for justice and equality.
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“From the Filipino Indigenous community’s babaylan spiritual protectors, who interact with or are a blend of feminine and masculine spirits, to ogbanje individuals in Nigeria, diversity in sexual orientations and gender identities has existed everywhere throughout recorded history.”*
Webtalk and Workshop with the Yogyakarta Alliance and activists from Namibia and Rwanda, April 18, 2024
Three years ago, on March 3, 2021, the German government’s LGBTI inclusion strategy for Foreign Policy and Development Cooperation was adopted. The concept references colonialism and missionary history as important aspects. The concept and this reference are a result of years of advocacy by LSVD, Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation and the Yogyakarta Alliance.
Introduction
In the heart of Africa, a storm is brewing within the hallowed halls of legislative chambers, and the tempest is named the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023.
Nestled within the intricate legal deliberations of the Constitutional Court of Uganda, the recently enacted legislation whose constitutionality is set to be determined by a court in Uganda has stirred widespread controversy
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We live in a world in which there is an unspoken assumption that human rights apply only to heterosexual people. This glaring gap in the protection of human rights also applies to the freedom of religion and belief. It means that the human rights of queer people – lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTIQ+) people ‒ are denied or restricted in the name of religion. It means that religion is instrumentalized for purposes of power, and that LGBTIQ+ people are systematically prevented from living their faith. How to change this situation was the focus of “We believe in change”, a project by the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation. Here are the project’s main results, summarized in ten theses:
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Schriften der Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung hier
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The Solution is Discourse: The places we have to go to see our different human experiences
South African author Siya Khumalo was this year’s final guest speaker at the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation’s “We believe in change” project.
“You have to be gay to know god”– a writer´s account on faith and the human rights of queer people
Siya Khumalo wuchs in einem Township in Durban auf, wo eine einzige Predigt einen Lynchmob gegen alle, die als anders gelten, auf den Plan rufen konnte. Ausgehend von persönlichen Erfahrungen — seiner Kindheit, dem Leben in der Armee, dem Besuch der Kirche und der Teilnahme an Wettbewerben — erforscht Khumalo das LGBTQI+-Sein im heutigen Südafrika.
In March 2023, a group of Ugandan parents of LGBTIQ+ children published an open letter to Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, imploring him not to sign into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which had been tabled in the country’s parliament.
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Conference report (deutsch)
Invitation and Program
Intervention by X., activist from Uganda at the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung conference “We believe in change” at Kunsthalle Osnabrück on 7 Sep 2023