The movie “Moonlight” has inspired Zimbabwe’s LGBT community, especially in combination with the recent Rainbow Film Festival and training sessions for future movie-makers. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe politician: I would end LGBT persecution
In Zimbabwe, long-time opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says that if he becomes president, he “will not persecute or prosecute gays.” Such statements in Zimbabwe tend to provoke accusations that the speaker is gay or has been bribed by gay Westerners, so Tsvangirai stated in addition, “I am not gay. I don’t support gays.” As reported … Continue reading
Tally of LGBTI rights, wrongs in 29 sub-Saharan countries
Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made progress in recognizing the human rights of LGBTI people, but much work remains to be done in the region’s 29 countries that still have laws against same-sex intimacy. LGBTI rights in those African countries are the focus of the following excerpts from the 2015 edition of the U.S. … Continue reading
Archbishop to Mugabe: Anti-gay laws are wrong
Will the worldwide Anglican Communion stop supporting the homophobic Anglican Churches of Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, since those churches endorse their countries’ anti-gay laws? That’s what would happen if the world’s various Anglican churches — all of them originally descended from the Church of England — take Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, their spiritual leader, … Continue reading
Homophobic Zimbabwe obstructs anti-Aids workshop
Zimbabwe officials disrupted a workshop for people most at risk of HIV infections over the weekend, seizing documents at the Harare airport and tearing down an exhibition stand displaying materials they found offensive. The seizure is just the latest example of government obstruction of Aids fighters’ attempts to provide health information to sexual minorities, who … Continue reading
’10 Reasons Zimbabwe Is Super Gay’
Definitely worth a look: “Au Contraire, Robert Mugabe: Top 10 Reasons Zimbabwe Is Super Gay,” an amusing response from the online magazine Unicorn Booty to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s outburst on Sept. 28 at the United Nations. Some examples: Mugabe once proposed marriage to Barack Obama. This summer, Robert Mugabe proposed to President Obama! Sure, … Continue reading
Zimbabwe inches toward battling HIV among LGBT people
Zimbabwe may launch an anti-HIV program for LGBT people and sex workers, according to Dr. Owen Mugurungi, the Health Ministry’s leader for the fight against AIDS. The government is “considering” starting programs that will include the gay community, according to a New Zimbabwe article on Mugurungi’s remarks, made in mid-December at a Zimbabwe Lawyers for … Continue reading
Africa / Americas / Commentary
U.S. vs. ‘Dictators’ Club’ of anti-gay African strongmen
While African leaders meet this week at a trade summit in Washington, D.C., it’s important to recognize that some of Africa’s most repressive (and mostly anti-LGBTI) leaders are gaining strength from each other by providing mutual support, writes Alyssa Rickard, program associate for Africa Programs at democracy watchdog group Freedom House. She argues that the … Continue reading
Why African leaders attack gays; is gay genocide next?
In this chilling excerpt from a longer article, the Rev. Canon Kapya Kaoma, a human rights researcher and Anglican priest from Zambia, discusses the reasons for diatribes against LGBT people by African leaders such as Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe: Gay people are “worse than pigs and … Continue reading
Mugabe threatens gays; LGBT Zimbabweans respond
LGBT persons in Zimbabwe have once again been reminded that they have a long way to go to win justice and fair play in their native land. Thousands who gathered today in a Harare stadium and elsewhere to mark 34 years since the country’s independence from Britain once again heard vociferous homophobic rhetoric from the … Continue reading
