Today, Easter Sunday, a group of Ugandan Christian leaders organized an anti-homosexuality parade near the home of the mother of slain LGBT activist David Kato. According to Pepe Julian Onziema, who was at the rally, one of the pastors used gay porn to demonstrate how homosexuals have sex. A man in the crowd shouted, “How … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
No Easter peace for Ugandan LGBTs
An anti-gay protest has broken the calm of Easter Sunday in Uganda. The producers of the film “Call Me Kuchu” reported earlier today on the protest at the grave site of Ugandan LGBT leader David Kato, who was murdered in 2011: Right now two anti-gay pastors (including the pastor who denounced David as evil at … Continue reading
Cameroon LGBT groups learning to be businesslike
Governance, paperwork, management techniques, human resources, financial conflicts of interest — those are some of the training modules discussed in workshops held Jan. 22 to 25 for nine representatives of three community-based organizations serving the community of men who have sex with men (MSM). “This training was needed because most of these young associations have … Continue reading
Gay sex tourism in anti-gay Gambia
Gambia’s strong-man president, Yahya Jammeh, devoted his recent speech at the opening session of parliament to railing against homosexuality along with the nation’s growing murder rate, police corruption and European countries’ deportation of Gambian citizens. At much the same time, the United States-based Gambian website Freedom Newspaper published a harsh depiction of life in the … Continue reading
African anti-gay backlash is a sign of LGBT progress?
“Gay Rights in Africa Move Slowly, Cautiously Forward,” states the headline of a Voice of America article. Believing that requires a leap of faith, since anti-LGBT legislation is under discussion or nearing approval in Uganda, Nigeria and Liberia, while Zimbabwe just voted for a new constitution that prohibits same-sex marriages. But the idea has some … Continue reading
Two gay men freed into ‘living hell’ in Cameroon
After three days in police custody in Cameroon, two gay men were released yesterday, but their daily life remains a nightmare. “I’m upset and depressed. Because of what has happened to us [an attack by a gay-bashing crowd, death threats, police detention], I am more and more stressed. I fear that tomorrow morning our lifeless … Continue reading
LGBTs in Cameroon: Attacked, arrested, freed again
Police in Cameroon have released two gay men whom they had held in custody for three days starting shortly after the men were attacked by a gay-bashing crowd on March 24. Cameroonian journalist Eric Lembembe interviewed the two men, Jonas Singa Kumie and Franky Djome, after their release. He has written an updated article on … Continue reading
Anti-gay movie heading for gay-obsessed Nigeria
No good seems likely to come from this: A Nigerian movie called “Law 58” reportedly will be released soon, at least on DVD, with the aim of “throw[ing] light on gay practices in the country and its devastating effects on the society at large,” in the words of Naija.com. The film, reportedly shot several years … Continue reading
Cameroon police re-arrest 2 gay men whom court freed
Two gay men, released from a Cameroon prison in January, have again been arrested. They have been held in police custody for the past two days, since shortly after they were attacked in a local marketplace on Sunday, March 24. The incident began when Jonas Singa Kumie and Franky Djome (Franky Ndome), variously described as … Continue reading
Gay recruiters in Uganda? A missed chance for truth
A Danish official on a visit to Uganda missed a chance last week to counteract the widespread but mistaken belief by Ugandan politicians, journalists and religious leaders that LGBT rights groups recruit people to become homosexuals. Christian Friis Bach, Danish minister of development cooperation, was asked about that issue in an interview with Uganda’s Daily … Continue reading
