No Place to Call Home: Increasing Homophobic & Transphobic Laws in the U.S. & Africa

A network of Christian evangelical organizations has spent nearly two decades and tens of millions of dollars fueling a storm of anti-LGBTI+ legislation across Africa. That same network now drafts and bankrolls a parallel wave of anti-LGBTI legislation including anti-trans bills sweeping through American statehouses. Meanwhile, new and expanding U.S. immigration laws increasingly restrict access to refuge for endangered migrants and regularly return those who found safety back to the danger they fled. Together, these trends form a closed circuit of violence and oppression that prevents Black LGBTI+ migrants from finding safety, community, and home on either side of the Atlantic.   Africa’s Widening Net  In recent years, many African countries have criminalized same-sex relations for the […] The post No Place to Call Home: Increasing Homophobic & Transphobic Laws in the U.S. & Africa appeared first on African Arguments.