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Contents:
- GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
- IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
- GAY SOUTH AI
- A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
- OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
- DO THEY HI THEIR FAC? SEARCHG FOR GAY LIFE WT AI.
GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
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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. 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. 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.
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(photo right, gay uple Baba and Baidy had to flee Senegal after a lol newspaper prted their photo). ” 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. ” When he returned ne years later, “Dakar was gayer than ever” and nobody did have to shy about his homosexualy the cy.
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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.
While many still ed the Wolof term gor-digen, several men now referred to themselv as “homosexuèl” French. A nnectn between the Wolof gor-digen tradn and the ternatnal notn of “homosexualy” – a much wir fn often excludg the optn of marryg someone of the oppose genr – was slowly beg tablished. But still the mid-2000s, gay meetg pots were well known to Dakar habants and gay men relatively openly uld pick up equally oriented men terrass of the famo beach promena Corniche Out the centre at pla daylight.
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In Febary 2008, publitn of photographs om a same-sex mment ceremony set off a wave of arrts and an anti-gay media enzy and sent dozens of gay men to exile.
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In November 2009, Safatoul Amal, an anisatn charged wh the spirual protectn of the town of Touba, raid a man’s home and arrted him for formg a “work of homosexuals.
The arrts were acpanied by sensatnal media verage, strong homophobic statements om relig and polil lears, and vlence — cludg physil attacks and the exhumatn and secratn of the bodi of ceased people spected of beg gay. Remend further readg about the history of homosexualy Ai: “Boy-wiv and Female Hbands” eded by Stephen O Murray & Will Rose, New York 1998.