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31 May 2018 - NPWJ News Digest on on LGBTI rights
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Kenya: Movie banned over LGBT content
by Freemuse, 30 May 2018
On 27 April 2018, the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) banned Wanuri Kahiu’s film Rafiki (Friend)—the country’s first film to be nominated for an award at the Cannes Film Festival—over its LGBT content, reported the Globe and Mail. The film depicts a love story between two women.
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Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown
by PBS Newshour, 27 May 2018
BEIRUT — It took him more than two months to prepare, coming up with the concept, assembling his outfit and rehearsing. Then on the big night, a five-hour session putting on makeup. The very last step, he slid on the red lace gloves with 4-inch red fingernails that he had specially ordered from the United States.
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Egypt's LGBT Crackdown
by NPR, 26 May 2018
Ahmed Alaa describes hoisting a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo as the "best five minutes of his life." Now he faces years in prison and says his family and his life have been destroyed.
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