Byavanga Waaa, the award-wng Kenyan wrer who challenged stereotyp of Ai wh bg satire and took on prejudice by documentg his life as an openly gay man, has died aged 48.
Contents:
- A BOOK ON AND BY GAYS KENYA
- KENYAN CELEBRI WHO HAVE BEEN RUMOURED TO BE GAY
- GAY KENYAN WRER A STIR WH SA WEDDG PLANS
- BOOK NEWS: KENYAN WRER COM OUT IN DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAWS
A BOOK ON AND BY GAYS KENYA
The thor found a platform for young Kenyan thors and me out as gay a place where homosexualy has long been illegal. "Byavanga was unbound his imagg," said a iend and lleague. * gay kenyan writer *
A founr of the Nairobi-based lerary work Kwani?, Waaa had e out as gay a untry where homosexualy was illegal.
KENYAN CELEBRI WHO HAVE BEEN RUMOURED TO BE GAY
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The Kenyan wrer me out as gay 2014 an say he lled a "lost chapter" om a memoir he had wrten a few years earlier. The work, lled "I Am a Homosexual, Mum, " was no small feat for an thor livg Kenya, where same-sex relatnships have long been illegal. In a bter twist of fate, the untry's hight urt is expected to hand down a lg jt days after Waaa's ath — on Friday — on whether to crimalize homosexualy.
"I was fdg reasons and exc [not to wre about beg gay] for a long time, but I thk sometim you're jt ready, " Waaa told NPR 2014, referrg to anti-homosexualy laws that had recently passed Nigeria as another reason why he wrote .
GAY KENYAN WRER A STIR WH SA WEDDG PLANS
Byavanga Waaa ma the announcement an onle say on his 43rd birthday. He says the recent anti-gay legislatn Uganda and Nigeria fluenced his cisn to speak out now. * gay kenyan writer *
"In December 2012, his iend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired pretense — got sick. Still, spe his ailments and the prevailg anti-gay laws of his home untry, Waaa found love: He announced last year that he would be gettg married.
Kenyan celebri and personali who are Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual, pansexual and kks (LGBTIQIAPK) have the past few years been bold enough to e out. The once profilic news anchor Louis Otieno has a son, Silas Miami who is gay. The late award-wng and profilic wrer Byavanga Waaa was openly gay.
BOOK NEWS: KENYAN WRER COM OUT IN DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAWS
He me out 2014 when there were a flurry of attacks on the gay muny several parts of Ai. He wrote a memoir tled, “I am a Homosexual, Mum” and then went on to tweet, “I am, for anybody nfed or doubt, a homosexual.