Gay Datg South Ai - AllMale

Contents:

• GAY DATG SOUTH AI
• GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
• GHANA TOPS GAY LIST AI
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

GAY DATG SOUTH AI

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.

For example, while many of might brand the young men and boys “homosexuals” the sense that they have a lastg sire for men whout the need or sire for a woman, once they have passed their re of passage to manhood, they marry women and bee fathers.

GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA

In addn, the sexual attachment associated wh our nventnal unrstandg of homosexualy is no there. In lonial tim, Senegal’s metropolis Dakar was famo for s open and tolerated homosexual prostutn market, and as late as the 1970s, as many as 17 percent of Senegale men admted havg had homosexual experienc.

Now, Dakar is Wt Ai’s centre of gay opprsn. The ernment of Senegal has ma clear that homosexualy is un-Ain. Sce 1965, same-sex activy has been punishable by up to five years imprisonment, but only durg the last five years, Dakar’s former visible gay muny has had to go unrground, riskg punishment.

History: Homosexualy is Not Un-Ain. Dakar’s gay history is the bt example monstratg that homosexualy is not un-Ain.

GHANA TOPS GAY LIST AI

Ined, homosexualy has been a visible and well-known part of Wolof tradns, and only moralist opns of the lonialists, later adopted by an creasgly domant Mlim clergy, led to the supprsn of this culture. (photo right, gay uple Baba and Baidy had to flee Senegal after a lol newspaper prted their photo).

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

The old Wolof name for homosexual men is gor-digen, or men-women. ” Dr Corre referred to the Wolofs’ appete for “morbid eroticism” his cril report; the olst known wrten rerds of homosexualy Senegal. Mr Gorer tertgly not that the openly gay men “do not suffer any way socially, though the Mohammedans refe them relig burial.

“The elrs and fahful Mlims nmn men for this, ” Mr Crowr noted, th documentg a slowly growg tolerance towards homosexualy om the lol clergy. Brish traveller Michael Davidson scribed Dakar 1949 as “the ‘gay’ cy of Wt Ai. ” When he returned ne years later, “Dakar was gayer than ever” and nobody did have to shy about his homosexualy the cy.

And by 1958, he rells, homosexualy was not nfed to the French domated centre of Dakar, but to the nightlife the “native quarters” and shantytowns surroundg the pal. 4 percent of femal said they had had homosexual experienc. The rearcher also noted the big visibily of homosexualy Dakar.