On Malawi: If they were most gay men people wouldn't care either

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On Malawi: If they were most gay men people wouldn't care either
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Alex Blaze
May 25, 2010 5:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/on_malawi_if_they_were_most_gay_men_people_wouldnt.php


The story of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, the couple in Malawi sentenced to 14 years hard labor last week, hasn't gotten much attention on Bilerico. The only post I remember - and that Google can find - is this Homotextual from this weekend that was just a quote from Madonna. That's it.

The focus of this blog is the US, even though we do at times post about happenings outside the US. File it under "you can't do everything well," and, with limited knowledge of foreign political systems, and non-Western thought systems, it's just not something that this crowd is likely to take on.

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Is the Malawi Couple Gay?
The Huffington Post
By Alex Blaze
Managing Editor, The Bilerico Project
Posted: May 27, 2010 01:14 PM


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-blaze/is-the-malawi-couple-gay_b_590639.html


By now I'm sure you've heard of the Malawi couple that was recently sentenced to 14 years hard labor because they publicly proposed to one another back in December. Personally, I haven't written about it since I know next to nothing about Malawi, but now coverage of the story has become a story in and of itself.

Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza are usually referred, in both the mainstream and LGBT media, as the "Malawi gay couple." That assumes that both Tiwonge and Steven are men, and that they see themselves as men in a relationship. But it's been fairly clear since the beginning that Tiwonge identifies as a woman: