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DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE
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In 2005, when Mikael Chwuma Owunna was 15 years old, he me out as gay on MySpace. But when he went home to Nigeria for the holidays as a teenager, a prits performed several forced exorcisms to "wash the 'gay vil' out, " he reunts now the preface for his new book, Limls Ains.
For years, he says, he felt as if his gay and Ain inti were at odds wh each other.
Jt last week, police Uganda arrted a group of 16 LGBTQ activists on spicn of homosexualy.
The ia was to show the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg how many gay men are livg quietly straight society. It backfired badly. * gay man in africa *
Her fay accepts her sexualy, which Owunna says challeng the assumptn that all Ain fai are homophobic or would reject their children for beg LGBTQ. On April 22, Them, an onle publitn, reported that four gay men had been murred South Ai ls than a month. Ngobe’s tweet received natnwi attentn not only bee revealed a ernment official’s unapologetic homophobia, but also bee was emblematic of the wispread and stubborn ristance to the tablishment of LGBTQ rights South Ai.
South Ai’s nstutn prohibs unfair discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn and guarante equaly for gay and lbian people. It is time for South Ai to rpond cisively to this growg problem by adoptg preventive measur agast homophobic hate speech and hate crim. The Gay and Lbian Alliance of South Ai has urged the parliament to pass a proposed hate crim law.
In Uganda, where LGBTQ people face wispread persecutn, Print Yoweri Meveni claimed that the protts agast his 35-year le were fund by “foreign homosexuals” January. In Ghana, church groups, policians and anti-gay rights anisatns held monstratns agast the openg of Ghana’s first LGBTQ muny centre Febary. The Ghana Mlim Missn, for example, attributed the COVID-19 panmic to “homosexualy, lbianism, transgenrism” a munique issued March 2020.