Zimbabwe: The position of lesbian and bisexual women (commentary)

[Natasha]

Zimbabwe: The position of lesbian and bisexual women

http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/sexual/080131galz3.asp?sector=SEXUAL
6/13/2008

"Since 1995, discrimination against homosexuals in Zimbabwe has received widespread coverage and attention but specific forms of exclusion experienced by lesbians and bisexual women are often obscured by talk of the general oppression facing both sexes. Although homosexual men (including transgender men) are spurned by society, they still maintain the privileges that automatically accrue to them as biological males. By contrast, lesbian and bisexual women suffer multiple forms of oppression, some of which relate to their sexuality but most of which relate to the general position of women in society."