Zimbabwe - GlobalGayz

Contents:

• GAY ZIMBABWEANS FIGHT STIGMA, HARSH LAWS
• GAY ASSOCIATN ZIMBABWE HAS 400 MEMBERS
• GAY, NGOCHANI, ORDAA, GUMUTETE AND MWANA WAERIZA: 'GLOBALISED' AND 'LOLISED' INTY LABELS AMONG SAME-SEX ATTRACTED MEN HARARE, ZIMBABWE
• HOW GAY IENDLY IS ZIMBABWE? - VICTORIA FALLS FOM
• ZIMBABWEAN UPLE MAND GAY RIGHTS

GAY ZIMBABWEANS FIGHT STIGMA, HARSH LAWS

Mr Manyati is on one of his first viss to the drop- centre of Gays and Lbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) Mutare, eastern Zimbabwe. GALZ is a membership-based associatn that promot, reprents and protects the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people Zimbabwe.

While Mr Manyati may look out of place, beg at GALZ is the most “fortable” he has ever felt as a gay man livg Zimbabwe his 60 years.

Remarkable for someone who has grown up around pervasive homophobia. The kd of homophobia that, as recently as 2017, saw the former print scribe gay people as, “worse than dogs and pigs. GALZ matas that the hatred and fear ed by the late print’s particular brand of homophobia, “is still beg felt Zimbabwe today.

GAY ASSOCIATN ZIMBABWE HAS 400 MEMBERS

While same-sex marriage is legal and LGBTI rights are nstutnally enshred, beg gay is dangero.

In the first half of 2021, there has been a spate of murrs of young gay men and an outcry om the LGBTI muny for the ernment, media and public to take hate crim more serly. This helped to secure US$ 2 ln for programm that serve gay men and other men who have sex wh men, the largt vtment ever an HIV and sexual and reproductive health rponse for the muny. Zimbabwe’s recently posed print Robert Mugabe ma no secret of his loathg for gay men and lbians.

In 2015, he stood before the UN General Assembly and clared “we [Zimbabweans] are not gays”. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) groups are among those celebratg his parture.

GAY, NGOCHANI, ORDAA, GUMUTETE AND MWANA WAERIZA: 'GLOBALISED' AND 'LOLISED' INTY LABELS AMONG SAME-SEX ATTRACTED MEN HARARE, ZIMBABWE

This is bee there are two bs of legislatn that directly affect the LGBT muny: the first is that ’s illegal to be gay Zimbabwe. To promote, reprent and protect the rights and terts of lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr and tersex people through.

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HOW GAY IENDLY IS ZIMBABWE? - VICTORIA FALLS FOM

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ZIMBABWEAN UPLE MAND GAY RIGHTS

Homosexualy is hog discrimatn Zimbabwe? Same-sex adoptn Zimbabwe is sgle only Homosexualy is currently illegal. In 2008, at age 16, she was outed as beg gay to her fay by a iend.

“My mom was like, stg on the floor wh rat poison her hand, cryg and sayg, ‘I am gog to kill myself, sayg, I will not have a gay son, I am gog to kill myself' that's how I was outed, ” she said. “So they went and told my iend, ‘We don't want to see him this neighborhood, and the next day that we are gog to see him, we are gog to put wire on fire for three days and that's what we are gog to e to beat him up until the gay uld get out of him. Zimbabwe is one of the least acceptg untri the world for gay, lbian and transgenr people.

Homosexualy is outlawed 35 Ain untri and punishable by ath two untri, Mrania and Sudan, as well as areas of Somalia and Nigeria, acrdg to Amnty Internatnal U. Strict laws agast homosexualy are embraced by Zimbabwe's longtime head of state, the 92-year-old Robert Mugabe, who has pared gays to animals. General Assembly he lashed out at the world body for tryg to force gay rights reforms on Zimbabwe.

We are not gays, ” he said.

Gay rights advot Zimbabwe say the laws the untry prent somethg of a Catch-22 for the LGBT muny. While is not technilly illegal to be gay Zimbabwe, is illegal to act on . “There is no law that stat that one nnot be gay.

It only be a crime once you start mtg homosexual acts public, ” said Mojalifa Mokwele, a gay rights activist Zimbabwe.

“If you take a look at the nstutn Zimbabwe, is not a crime to stand the streets and publicly state that he or she is homosexual. It is not illegal to be gay Zimbabwe.