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Last month, Namibia’s Supreme Court ruled in favour of granting legal recognition to same-sex marriages contracted abroad. In February, Kenya’s Supreme Court held that advocacy for the rights of sexual minorities was constitutionally protected and that groups involved in that could not be denied registration as NGOs. In November 2021, Botswana’s highest court decriminalised same-sex sexual relations.

This is far from the unified picture that the partisans in Africa’s emerging theatre of political culture wars would have us to believe.

A recent Ipsos survey found that nearly 9 per cent of adults self-identify as LGBTQ in 30 countries across the world, CNN reported.

The same-sex marriage issue in India has been a bone of contention between the government and the marginalised LGBTQ community, for quite some time now. Last month, in a path-breaking development, 18 couples from the community petitioned the Supreme Court of India asking for same-sex rights to marriage citing their status as equal citizens of a free country.

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Delhi Police to provide protection to a same-sex interfaith couple