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Moments we carry

Milestones of struggle, law and celebration across the continent. This timeline grows as the archive does.

  1. 1988

    GLOW is founded

    Simon Nkoli and others form the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand, linking queer liberation to the anti-apartheid struggle.

    JohannesburgSouthern Africa

  2. 1990

    First Pride march on the continent

    Several hundred people march through Johannesburg in what is widely recorded as Africa's first Pride.

    JohannesburgSouthern Africa

  3. 1996

    Equality, written down

    South Africa's constitution protects against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

    South AfricaSouthern Africa

  4. 2015

    Mozambique's new penal code

    A revised penal code takes effect without the colonial-era provisions used against same-sex relations.

    MozambiqueSouthern Africa

  5. 2019

    Botswana High Court ruling

    The court strikes down colonial-era laws criminalising consensual same-sex relations.

    GaboroneSouthern Africa

  6. 2020

    Gabon decriminalises

    Parliament reverses a 2019 law that had criminalised same-sex relations.

    LibrevilleCentral Africa