Beg gay Ai n pose culturally specific challeng which the domant, heterosexual culture may fd difficult to accept.
Contents:
- IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
- UGANDA GAY ON MOVE
- TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS AI AND THE MIDDLE EAST
IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
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Other Ain lears, pl several other people on the ntent have shared his view, and this has eliced homophobia, persecutn and anti-gay laws untri like Uganda, Tanzania, Moroc, Nigeria and Kenya. 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. 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.
UGANDA GAY ON MOVE
One school of thought vehemently stat that homosexual relatns is un-Ain, satanic and perpetuated by evil spirs, even see as a way through which the wt ntu her lonial fluence on the ntent. Christiany and Islam own on homosexual relatns and as such, s troductn and subsequent entrenchment has ma heterosexual relatnship the norm while homosexualy is viewed as the vice. Acrdg to anthropologists Stephen Murray and Will Rose the “Expand Crimalisatn of Homosexualy Uganda: A Flawed Narrative / Empiril evince and strategic alternativ om an Ain perspective, ” they were of the opn that Numero reports also dited that the highly sex-segregated societi of Ai, homosexual behavur and relatnships were not unmon among peers, both male and female, pecially the years before heterosexual marriage.
They went further to state unapologetilly that what the lonisers imposed on Ai was not homosexualy “but rather tolerance of — and systems of surveillance and regulatn for supprsg . Pro Ain homosexualy school of thought believ that sce pre-lonial Ai had no anized means of archivg her history, much of might have been lost through time and time. The alarmg news reports that appear wh creasg regulary about extreme exprsns of homophobia some Ain untri ( recent tim most notably Nigeria and Uganda) dite that same-sex sexual relatns are ed part of the Ain sexual landspe.
In ntrast, there are also supportive news reports, such as the recent tradnal Ain gay weddg the town of KwaDuza (the birthplace of Nobel Lreate, Albert Luthuli), South Ai where Tshepo Modisane and Thoba Shole married each other a public ceremony to nfirm as Modisane says their public exprsn as “a sign that black gay men n m and build a fay through a happy and lovg marriage” (). The nference was a llaborative iative between a number of anisatns, cludg AMSHeR (Ain Men for Sexual Health and Rights, South Ai), Behd the Mask (South Ai), GALCK (Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya; Kenya), Genr DynamiX (South Ai), HIV Center for Clil and Behavral Studi (USA), Hivos (Netherlands), Human Scienc Rearch Council (HSRC; South Ai), Humure (Bundi), the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (IGLHRC; South Ai), UNDP (Southern & Eastern Ai), and Gay and Lbian Memory Actn (GALA; South Ai) qutn uld be raised whether there is somethg specific about Ain same-sex sexuali that warrants special attentn. In acknowledgg this uniquens, we do not, however, suggt that there is one uniform and homogeneo exprsn of same-sex sexualy across the Ain ntent.
TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS AI AND THE MIDDLE EAST
However, spe all legal chang that promote equaly of gay, lbian and bisexual persons, there are still issu to be addrsed South Ai, such as the unequal age of nsent regardg heterosexual and same-sex sexual relatns, and vlence agast Black lbians particular (Mkhize et al. The illegaly and the lack of social acceptance of same-sex sexualy make lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) persons particularly vulnerable to crim of blackmail and extortn (Thoron and Cook 2011). This is evinced by the book tl of two semal publitns about Ain same-sex sexuali: Tommy boys, lbian men, and anctral wiv: female same-sex practic Ai (Man and Wierga 2005) and Boy-wiv and female hbands: studi Ain homosexuali (Murray and Rose 1998).
In the first of the, Dramé, Pezmeier, Lop, Ndaw, Sow, Duf and Baral summarise what has been learned Wt Ai about HIV preventn, treatment, and re servic for gay men and other men who have sex wh men. The paper argu for creased attentn for the health needs of lbians livg wh HIV, and for HIV preventn that addrs the needs of women who have sex wh women more on -pth terviews that foreground HIV and other sexual health needs of male sex workers Nigeria the third paper, by Okanlawon, Anene, Abowale, and Tilayo monstrate how male sex workers manage their liv a ntext which the prohibn of homosexualy and sex work exacerbate their risk of discrimatn and vlatns. Surprisgly, Geofn matas that the Ghanaian ntext, where the ia and ncept of homosexualy is only recently gag attentn, the activi are not exprsns of same-sex sexualy.
The thors argue turn for attentn to the specific emotnal and rmatnal support needs intified the dited prevly, the pervasivens of relign the liv of many Ain people, cludg persons who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual nnot be overemphasised the Ain ntext. Based on dividual and group terviews and stctured qutnnair, the thor explor the extent to which gay men livg wh HIV feel ee to exprs and enjoy their fah while simultaneoly acknowledgg their sexualy a ntext which most fah-based anisatns are vehemently opposed to homosexualy. At the same time, relig attus ma some men feel forced to make choic between their sexualy and their relign; they ma spirual fulfilment for the men more problematic, whholdg an important source of support and the men’s efforts to pe wh their HIV the fal ntributn, McAllister explor what Wtern globalised gay inty ncepts and cultur might mean for emergg sexual mory muni low and middle e untri.