If you say beg gay is not Ain, you don’t know your history | Bisi Alimi | The Guardian

Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• UGANDA GAY ON MOVE
• IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
• GAY XHOSA MEN’S EXPERIENC OF ULWALO (TRADNAL MALE IATN)
• HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
• GATEKEEPERS: GAYS THE DAGARA TRIBE

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

While the former practice is often rid by many as 'humane' and the latter is often referred to as 'homosexual' behavur, the Sambia’s unrstandg and purpose behd the two procs differs om our nventnal unrstandg.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

UGANDA GAY ON MOVE

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

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.

GAY XHOSA MEN’S EXPERIENC OF ULWALO (TRADNAL MALE IATN)

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.

Of urse, should be noted that this versn of homosexualy uld not be farther removed—geographilly, practilly, and philosophilly—om the gay rights bate the Uned Stat and Europe. 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. Our knowledge of homosexualy prehistoric Ain cultur is limed by the late-Middle Age European views of Ains, of homosexualy, and of urse, the European reason for beg sub-Saharan Ai the first place – the slave tra.

While European proprieti ma such graphic scriptn of Ain homosexuali unmon their scriptns of Ai, there are enough referenc to to know that was ed prent, and even ed as a jtifitn for nsirg Ain cultur primive enough to jtify slavery. Among the last Ain cultur to be subjugated by Europeans, the Hsa peopl of northern Nigeria and the surroundg untri offer tertg exampl of homosexualy among Islmaized peopl of Ai.

HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED

Among other Ain trib, homosexual behavrs among premarriage adolcents is mon and is not even nsired to be sex, sce do not volve procreative potential. In Zimbabwe, a natn racked by recent homophobic pogroms stuted by s vicly homophobic dictator, Robert Mugabe, there has historilly been ltle known about homosexual behavr among peopl prent prr to European ntact. Some ethnographers have dishontly attempted to show that homosexual behavr is a recent novatn enuraged by Europeans to serve their pal terts, hog large numbers of male Ains together barracks to serve as labor the m.

The Bantu-speakg peopl of the plate untry were more circumspect, but have admted to ethnographers that homosexual ntact did occur, and was expected of pre-marriage adolcent mal. 5 percent reprented unwillg participants the crimal procs, the actual extent of homosexual behavr was certaly much greater, sce only those ught  flagrante licto, those prosecuted wh amic, or those acced by jilted lovers or others wh an axe to grd, reprent the crimal numbers we see the rerds. Contrary to Mugabe’s and other Aocentrists’ assertns, analysis of the lonial urt s show that the rat of prosecutn for homosexual behavrs was hight among the more digeno peopl (Shona, 17% and Nbele, 16%), and least among the “dtrialized migrants” om elsewhere (about 3% each for Xhosa, Basotho and Zulu).

”This is the same argument that Robert Mugabe ed to supprs the human rights of LGBT people Zimbabwe; that the former print of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, ed when he signed the most dangero law agast LGBT people the morn world; and that Print Yoweri Meveni ed a ceremonial signg of the anti-gay bill Uganda.

GATEKEEPERS: GAYS THE DAGARA TRIBE

This year Gambia’s print Yahya Jammeh lled for gay people’s throats to be I was appoted by Berl’s Humboldt Universy this year to teach the urse “Pre- and post-lonial sexual orientatn and sexual inty Ai”, I knew I had a huge task before me.