“At a point I put my hands up and gradually I started to accept myself, sounds easy but there were and are still moments I fall back because of homophobic comments and all that stuff but I always come back stronger after I look within.”
Meet Our Speakers! – African Rainbow Family Annual Conference, Manchester. 11/08/2018 The #MeToo unreported world of LGBTIQ people seeking asylum and refuge in the UK is real! On Saturday, 11/8/2018, our amazing ‘Experts by Experience’ whom are members of African Rainbow Family (Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds branches) will share their personal realities of …
African Rainbow Family celebrates Stonewall Uprising in style!
Our response to the APPG LGBT report on UK stance on breaches of LGBT rights globally
Press Release 06/02/2016 ACT UP! FIGHT BACK! FIGHT AIDS! UNTIL THERE IS AN HIV / AIDS CURE FOR ALL! In a ‘SILENCE = 40’ CAMPAIGN LAUNCH held in London on 5th Feb. 2016 by our friend ACT UP London in collaboration with African Rainbow Family and other coalition of social justice movements such as musicians, activists, lawyers and politicians from …
A Case for HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Decriminalising Homosexuality Read More »
“The role that UK parliamentarians can play in championing LGBT rights worldwide and responding when such rights are threatened with particular respect to UK Asylum Seekers” – DOWNLOAD African Rainbow Family’s Submission to APPG LGBT on Global LGBT rights. The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global LGBT Rights recently (Tuesday 20 July 2015) announced …
ARF Submitted Evidence to UK All Party Parliamentary Party Group (LGBT) Read More »
On Wednesday, 30th September 2015, Aderonke Apata, a Nigerian lesbian, global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) equality advocate, feminist and human rights activist was joined by many LGBTI activists in a rally to deliver petition signatures of over 70,000 demanding the repeal of Nigeria Anti Gay Laws to the Nigeria High Commission in London. …
Petition with over 70,000 signatures demands LGBTI equality in Nigeria Over 100 people joined Aderonke Apata, founder, African Rainbow Family rallied outside the Nigerian High Commission in London on 30 September. They handed in a petition with over 70,000 signatures, urging Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to repeal of all Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI laws. The embassy refused to …
African Rainbow Family London Rally Demands Repeal Nigeria Anti-Gay Law Read More »
Rally to demand repeal of Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI laws Stand in solidarity with Nigerian LGBTI people next Wednesday Wednesday 30 September, 1-2pm. Rally outside the Nigerian High Commission, 9 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BX (nearest tube stations Charing Cross and Embankment). Map: https://goo.gl/EA5cDl Put pressure on the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to uphold LGBTI human rights. …
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There is no pride in criminalising love. Love is not a crime, repeal Nigeria anti-gay law.
