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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Bill in Georgia's parliament would ban Pride marches and rainbow flags

2 weeks 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 weeks 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

4 weeks 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.
Tally of nations with anti-gay laws edges back up to 66

4 weeks ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Trinidad and Tobago reinstates anti-gay laws that were overturned in 2018. By Colin Stewart and Rob SalernoThe slow, decades-long progress toward recognition of the human rights of LGBTQ people has encountered a setback with the March 25 decision by the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal to reinstate that Caribbean country’s laws against homosexuality.
AIDS fight hindered by US funding cuts, UN says

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Trump administration has eliminated key programs funding fight against HIV/AIDS At least 12,000 doctors and other health care staff at national anti-AIDS programs have been laid off because of the elimination of a large proportion of the United States’ foreign aid, according to a preliminary report from UNAIDS, the United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency.
Two women in danger after lesbian relationship discovered

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Threats underscore violence faced by Cameroon’s LGBT communityKnowledgeable members of Cameroon‘s LGBTI community recently told reporter Steeves Winner this account of a homophobic family that forced a lesbian couple to break up and has now led one woman to go into hiding for her own protection. This story fits a pattern of violence that the LGBT community in Cameroon faces both from the authorities and society at large. For the women’s safety, they are identified here with pseudonyms.
Prospects for reviving U.S. foreign aid grow even darker

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Judge says Trump can cancel future foreign aid contracts, but must pay past billsFormerly U.S.-supported programs to combat AIDS can be dropped by the Trump administration, but nearly $2 billion in past foreign aid owed to its humanitarian partners around the world must be paid, a U.S. district judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali ruled that “at some point” the government would have to spend $58 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress, but gave no deadline for doing so.
Bangladesh: New political party seeks reform but ousts member for being gay

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Human rights advocates condemn ‘hateful remarks’ about him and the LGBTQI+ communityBangladeshi students at the forefront of protests that last year ousted Sheikh Hasina as prime minister launched a political party last month, then promptly excluded an LGBTQ rights advocate who had protested side by side with them.
Ghana's harsh anti-LGBTQ bill is back

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

If enacted, Ghana bill proposes prison for every gay person. Although new Ghana’s new president, John Mahama, has said he wants his regime to come up with its own anti-LGBTQ bill, a group of homophobic members of parliament have reintroduced last year’s bill, which never was signed into law. If enacted, the bill would expand on Ghana’s current law that provides a three-year prison sentence for same-sex intimacy.
Supreme Court rejects Trump's foreign aid freeze, but the freeze continues

1 month ago | 76crimes.com | Colin Stewart

Foreign aid freeze puts millions at risk of starvation and HIV. The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to overturn a lower-court order that the Trump administration must release over $1.5 billion to $2 billion in frozen foreign aid payments. But that ruling doesn’t mean that the foreign aid will actually be disbursed.