Listen to the stories of queer Africa

None On Record is an audio documentary project collecting the stories of queer, lesbian, gay, bi and transgender Africans:

QLGBT Africans are everywherewithin the neighborhoods of Dakar, Toronto, Nairobi, New York City and London and in the small towns and villages of African countries.

In 2004, FannyAnn Eddy, an LGBT activist from Sierra Leone, West Africa was murdered in the offices of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association. The news of her murder circulated around the world and was a turning point for Selly Thiam, a Senegalese lesbian living in the United States. To honor the African QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) spirit that Fanny Ann embodied, she began collecting the oral histories of QLGBT Africans from the African Continent and in the Diaspora.

The archives are wonderfully diverse -- just on the current first page we've got people from South Africa, Sierra Leone (now in Canada), Kenya (now in USA) and Lesotho (now in USA).

The site also has a blog, though it's only got one post, and that's from February. Good post though!

Relevant things I've written:
* Rest In Peace, Pitseng Vilakati (at CarnalNation)
* Colonized Libidos (at CarnalNation)

[Yet another hat tip to MetaFilter, which also links to an interview with the founder]