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Title: Mob Tries To Lynch Men Awaiting Sentencing For Homosexuality
Post by: LostInTime on August 27, 2007, 09:49:30 AM
Post by: LostInTime on August 27, 2007, 09:49:30 AM
365 Gay (http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/08/082607nigeria.htm)
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Sentences for the 18 were to have been handed down last week by a Sharia court in the Moslem state of Bauchi.
They were arrested wearing women's clothing at a hotel where police say they had gathered for the wedding "of two men". An attorney for the men said they were at the hotel for a "graduation party".
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Sentences for the 18 were to have been handed down last week by a Sharia court in the Moslem state of Bauchi.
They were arrested wearing women's clothing at a hotel where police say they had gathered for the wedding "of two men". An attorney for the men said they were at the hotel for a "graduation party".
Title: Re: Mob Tries To Lynch Men Awaiting Sentencing For Homosexuality
Post by: Hypatia on August 28, 2007, 07:20:06 AM
Post by: Hypatia on August 28, 2007, 07:20:06 AM
What is it with Africa and homophobia? I really would like to understand. Homophobia exists worldwide, but reading the news it seems to me again and again that the most aggressive, hateful, virulent examples (http://www.thegully.com/essays/africa/010327gay_na.html) of it occur more often in Africa.
Black gay blog The Republic of T (http://www.republicoft.com/2007/01/25/africa-homophobia-colonized-minds/) looked at this issue. One of the comments offered this analysis: "Of course, in African countries where decolonization is poor/incomplete, it certainly stands to reason that there would be this kind of "othering" going on. It is a repetition of the same assertation of difference which was used to justify their colonization in the first place. In so many ways it is like a family cycle of abuse that does not end."
And yet South Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_South_Africa) is a world leader in gay rights, so one must not generalize too much.
Black gay blog The Republic of T (http://www.republicoft.com/2007/01/25/africa-homophobia-colonized-minds/) looked at this issue. One of the comments offered this analysis: "Of course, in African countries where decolonization is poor/incomplete, it certainly stands to reason that there would be this kind of "othering" going on. It is a repetition of the same assertation of difference which was used to justify their colonization in the first place. In so many ways it is like a family cycle of abuse that does not end."
And yet South Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_South_Africa) is a world leader in gay rights, so one must not generalize too much.