A Gay Whe Teen Stggl To Exist In Apartheid South Ai In 'Moffie' : NPR

Contents:

• OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
• A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
• GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• AIN GAYS AND LBIANS BAT BIAS
• WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
• A GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO CAPE TOWN
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY

OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE

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.

A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'

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. However, some untri such as France, where this is not legally punishable, homosexuals live and feel for the most part the same fate as their unterparts Ai. After listeng to our prev episos about beg homosexual Dakar, Senegal, today, we are gog to have a nversatn about toxic masculy and homophobia wh two LGBTIQ+ rights activists who unrstand the Ain ntext, as well as the European one Sheba Akpokli jos om Lomé, the pal of Togo Wt Ai and Yosef Belghmaidi is Aubervilliers France.

GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA

Now, listeners, if you have not yet had episos on the Góor-Jigéen Senegal or the origs and harshns of homophobia the Wt Ain untry, we ve you to listen to them by visg our webse at In addn to listeng to this nversatn now, is te that there was a time when the LGBTQ+ muny was not persecuted Senegal? Now, I have a qutn for both of you, we are lookg at homophobia and masculy and the prev episos about homophobia Senegal, we have learned that homosexual men there are targeted wh the slur Góor-jigéen - a pejorative term, which lerally means man or woman the Wolof language and is ed to beltle their masculy.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

As for French, there is pédé, which is pretty much a translatn of fag, and 's ed to pot out the fact that homosexualy is ferr to heterosexualy, polilly speakg.

Khopotso Bodibe: Now, both your experienc om both the environments that you are speakg of right now, the terms are aimed at beltlg the masculy of homosexual men. This stigma really happens when you actually ci to transform your homosexualy or your queerns as an actual inty, that that n actually, like, challenge the lol and natnal social stctur. Now, as we wrap up this nversatn, the prev episos of Cry Like a Boy, we learned the story of Junr, a young Senegale man who is forced to live wh the secret of beg gay, bee Senegal, if you e out of the closet, you not only risk beg persecuted and harassed, but you n end up jail.

AIN GAYS AND LBIANS BAT BIAS

I wanted to start meangful nversatns around genr norms and masculy that speak specifilly to our reali as gay men wh a culture that is poisonoly patriarchal and eply homophobic. Agast a backdrop of adly anti-gay vlence, A Nasty Boy dared to be a haven for gay men Nigeria and, no time, received ternatnal attentn through CNN, BBC, The Guardian, The Enomist, Vogue, and others. And yet, even this gome attack pal parison to the fatal btaly many Nigerian gay men have too often experienced the form of lynchgs or pillory wh tir before they’re set on fire and burnt alive—not for terrorism or worse, but for beg gay, for beg human, a sperately homophobic untry.

WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?

A 2017 survey by The Iniative for Equal Rights (TIERS), a Nigerian-based human rights anizatn, showed 90% of Nigerians support the ntued enforcement of Nigeria’s anti-gay laws. The btal and mmerizg new film tak place South Ai 1981, where 16-year-old Nicholas is g to grips wh his homosexualy an environment that uldn't be more hostile to .

Later the story, Dylan vanish whout explanatn, and Nicholas fears that he's been sent to the notor Ward 22, where gay men are mored to be sent for aversn approach another soldier who's been to Ward 22 and asks if he's heard anythg about Dylan.

A GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO CAPE TOWN

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) I hope for his sake that he's "Moffie" was directed and -wrten by Oliver Herman, a gay, biracial filmmaker who has ma several dramas about vlence and reprsn South Ain society, though this is his first film set durg apartheid. He's said terviews that while he was ially reluctant to tell a story about this era om the perspective of whe men, he saw an opportuny to nont apartheid's culture of hypermasculy and s vastatg impact on gay South Ains. Herman is also well aware of the latent homoeroticism this thlsly homophobic culture, and he floods "Moffie" wh feverishly betiful imagery of mcular young men at work and at play.

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.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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.