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Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS NAIROBI
• GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA
• THE GAY MEN PROJECT
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS NAIROBI
• THE SECRET LIFE OF GAY UGANDAN REFUGE NAIROBI
• ACTIVIST OUTED AS A 'TOP GAY' BY A KENYAN TABLOID ANSWERS YOUR QUTNS
• THE SECRET GAY LIFE OF NAIROBI
• ‘THE SKY DON’T LLAPSE.’ A FILMMAKER EXPLOR GAY LIFE KENYA.
• YOUNG, GAY AND VULNERABLE: THE AIN OUTSTS LIVG NSTANT DANGER
• I AM SAMUEL IS A TENR LOOK AT A GAY KENYAN UPLE’S LIV AND LOVE
• BEG GAY KENYA
• SEARCHG FOR LOVE WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS NAIROBI

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GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA

photo by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev TongBrian, his own words: “In a few words (beg gay) is liberatg, beg my own self, spirg,. Challeng, livg wh limed means, livg society largely homophobic and nservative, low self-teem which perpetually broke my spir.

THE GAY MEN PROJECT

(The gay muny Nairobi is) a muny of diverse and brilliant men and women wh a big, lovg and strong heart, achievg succs agast all odds.

I n say that is is unlike five years ago, where you would not fd an exclively openly gay clic. It ed to be hard before, but is still not easy bee when you have a stand alone clic people fear that you might also out them–if they’re found attendg the clic, people will know they are gay. And (one) might be discrimated on health, or gog to school–we have seen people kicked out of their ho by landowners or neighbors thkg that (you are gay).

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS NAIROBI

(People thk) You have traveled out of the untry, that is why you have brought (beg gay) to this untry.

THE SECRET LIFE OF GAY UGANDAN REFUGE NAIROBI

As we all know, South Ai at least (beg gay) is legal there, but we thought once South Ai legalized other untri would start replitg that. We found out they wanted even stronger laws that will crimalize homosexual acts, so ’s really difficult.

ACTIVIST OUTED AS A 'TOP GAY' BY A KENYAN TABLOID ANSWERS YOUR QUTNS

So when we start talkg about health issu, people know that if affects gay people might also affect the heterosexual muny.

THE SECRET GAY LIFE OF NAIROBI

The biggt health issue for gay men is if you are sick as related to how you have sex to another man, there is a lot of stigma wh the health re provirs. So we are tryg to bridge the gap and tryg to help that scenar and tryg to e up wh health promotn that says (gay men) are even more vulnerable, bee we don’t see that today.

‘THE SKY DON’T LLAPSE.’ A FILMMAKER EXPLOR GAY LIFE KENYA.

(The gay muny Nairobi) is thrivg and ’s diverse bee we fd that a culture of Nairobi is that people don’t re what you do. Bee what has been happeng before for the last five years was we had straight people workg a clic which is for gay men.

We go to clubs and we are kicked out, we brg money to people and they accept for one month and then they realize we are gay people and the next month they are kickg out. photo by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev TongPatrick, his own words: “What do beg gay mean to you? I jt assume that people assume that I’m gay and will always answer the affirmative if asked.

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YOUNG, GAY AND VULNERABLE: THE AIN OUTSTS LIVG NSTANT DANGER

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I AM SAMUEL IS A TENR LOOK AT A GAY KENYAN UPLE’S LIV AND LOVE

To fully appreciate Nairobi and the rt of Kenya, you need to book a Holiday Hoeboy, your gay iendly private tour gui. Remember a Holiday Hoeboy is your gay iendly tour gui who looks after your safety and welfare at all tim. An HIV-posive, gay refugee om Uganda stands outsi the hoe he shared wh dozens of other LGBT refuge on the outskirts of Nairobi.

One btlg afternoon Kenya's pal, Nairobi, three gay men om Uganda were walkg home om a sexual health center when they were stopped by a police officer. In , the police officer disvered pamphlets about gay rights, as well as ndoms and lubrints that he'd received jt moments earlier at the the officer, "that was the evince that we were gay and we had e to stroy Kenya wh our habs, " Nelson rells.

BEG GAY KENYA

) He says police took the three of them to jail, placg them a cell wh straight prisoners and announcg that "the are gay people—you don't know what they will do. The three gay Ugandans spent the night that cell, until reprentativ om the sexual health clic arrived the morng and persuad the police to let them go.

SEARCHG FOR LOVE WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME

For months, nearly two dozen gay, lbian and transgenr Ugandans had been livg a large hoe on the outskirts of Nairobi an area lled Rongai.

Long after a urt stck down Uganda's famo anti-gay law—dubbed the "Kill the Gays" bill for a ath penalty provisn an early draft—LGBT people Uganda were still beg disowned by their fai, hunted down by neighbors, jailed by police, even killed. One eveng last year, a transgenr refugee and two gay men were walkg to buy food when they were attacked by women the neighborhood, who acced the gay refuge of "stealg our men.