Tweeting for Sweden: Trucks, Coffee, Breasts and Cats

Hanna Fange has been sending out her personal tweets on Sweden’s official twitter account as part of a program to let a different Swedish citizen take over the account each week.

Malaysia’s anti-gay camp

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A camp set up to ‘correct the effeminate behavior’ of Muslim schoolboys violates the law and should be abolished, says Malaysia’s women’s minister. 66 schoolboys identified by teachers as ‘effeminate’ began counseling this week to ‘discourage them from being gay’. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to the BBC’s Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur. Download MP3

Uganda gay rights activist killed

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Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato has been beaten to death, activists say. Last year Kato sued a local newspaper which had outed him as homosexual. The newspaper published the photographs of several people it said were gay next to a headline reading “Hang them”. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda. Marco Werman speaks with reporter Dennis Porter about the killing. Download MP3
Gay Uganda blog

A pitch for the pink dollar in Nepal

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Nepal’s tourism industry took a major hit during the decade of Maoist insurgency. Now Nepalese officials want to make 2011 the year of tourism. And they’re billing Nepal as a destination for gay and lesbian visitors. Habiba Nosheen has more.Download MP3

Being gay in Uganda

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A Ugandan government minister has said that a proposed law which includes the death penalty for some homosexual acts is “not necessary”. The bill submitted last October sparked international condemnation. Homosexual acts are punishable by up to 14 years in jail in Uganda. Jeb Sharp talks with Maria Burnett, Uganda researcher for Human Rights Watch, about the anti-gay bill. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• Internat’l Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission