Erasing 76 Crimes

The "Erasing 76 Crimes" blog highlights the impact of anti-LGBTI laws in over 76 countries and aims to raise awareness about the efforts to overturn these laws. It sheds light on the human suffering caused by these regulations and the ongoing fight for equality.

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Report: Attacks on queer Bangladeshis have skyrocketed

1 week ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

JusticeMakers Bangladesh analyzes LGBTQ rights violations in 2024. This is a modestly edited version of the report on LGBTQI+ rights violations in Bangladesh during 2024, as described by the LGBTQI+ rights advocacy group JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF). Paris-based human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) has officially published its 2024 Annual LGBTQ+ Rights Report of Bangladesh.
Russian court fines Apple $130,000 for 'LGBT content'

2 weeks ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Apple penalized for refusing to censor so-called ‘LGBT propaganda’Apple fined $130k by Russian court for so-called extremist ‘LGBT content’By Donald PadgettApple was fined over 10 million rubles ($130,000) by a court in Russia for extremist ‘LGBT propaganda’ and refusing to censor content, the Russian-language Mediazona reports. Judge Alexandra Anokhina of Moscow’s Tagansky District Court presided over the hearing on Monday.
Two Cameroon lesbians forced to remain in prison due to unjust fines

2 weeks ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Project Not Alone aims to free imprisoned queer Cameroonians by raising money for their finesBy Steeves WinnerFleur and Wanda (both pseudonyms) are a Cameroonian lesbian couple who have been imprisoned for homosexuality in the notorious Bertoua Prison in eastern Cameroon. This site’s Project Not Alone is seeking donations to set them free. The two women, who had been in a relationship for some time before their arrest, were deeply in love.
Peru's LGBTQ activists give Pope Leo a thumbs up; others are wary

3 weeks ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

‘A courageous figure willing to listen when others remained silent’Most LGBTQ rights activists in the Global South have adopted a wait-and-see attitude toward Leo XIV, the new Pope. But activists in Peru, where he served as a bishop for many years, are optimistic that he will at least match Pope Francis’s record of loving acceptance of LGBTQ people, even though Francis made no radical change in church doctrine.
We have freed 46 LGBTQ prisoners. We need help to free 12 more

3 weeks ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Readers’ donations will make a huge difference in 12 LGBTQ prisoners’ lives. Ten gay men and two lesbians deserve to be set free in Cameroon and Nigeria, where they are locked up for whom they love. Your donation can help open the prison doors and let them out.
U.S. dismantles USAID memorial honoring Bangladeshi LGBTQ rights activist

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Xulhaz Mannan was one of 99 USAID workers killed in the line of dutyIn addition to shutting down the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID, the Trump administration has now dismantled that agency’s memorial wall honoring 99 of its workers who died in the line of duty. The USAID honorees are a mix of famine relief workers, public health officers and advisors promoting American-style democracy in countries where the U.S. was at war, including most prominently Vietnam and Afghanistan.
LGBTQ rights activists mourn and praise Pope Francis

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Pope was accepting and expressed compassion for LGBTQ people, but considered them disordered. Several LGBTQ+ rights activists praised Pope Francis after he passed away Sunday night at age 88. As the leader of the Catholic Church, he broke from church traditions by being compassionate and accepting of LGBTQ+ people, but did not renounce Catholic doctrine that categorized gay sex and trans identities as disorders. He famously said “Who am I to judge?” when asked about gays in the church.
Bill in Georgia's parliament would ban Pride marches and rainbow flags

2 months ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Russian homophobes are role models for Georgia’s ruling party. The increasingly Russia-imitating government of the nation of Georgia has introduced a bill to ban LGBT Pride marches and symbols. The proposal comes in the wake of draconian anti-LGBT “propaganda” legislation that passed last year. In recent years, the ruling party in the nation at the edge of Eastern Europe and Western Asia has adopted policies that are modeled after those of Russia, the nation’s huge northern neighbor.
Bangladesh activists demand justice after two queer men are attacked

2 months ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Attacks fit a pattern of ongoing violence against queer peopleLGBTQI+ Bangladeshis face the threat of ongoing violence and extortion, simply for being who they are in this deeply conservative Muslim country. Two recent violent assaults against queer men in different cities illustrate this danger. One was in Rangpur in northern Bangladesh. The other was in Narayanganj, outside the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka.
How Trinidad lost the right to gay sex

2 months ago | 76crimes.com | Rob Salerno

LGBTQ rights activist filed the suit that legalized gay sex. Now he vows to appealBelow, LGBTQ rights journalist Rob Salerno, an editor for Erasing 76 Crimes, analyzes the court ruling that revived the anti-sodomy law of the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.