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

Contents:

• UGANDA GAY ON MOVE
• ‘GAY TRIB’ ON GRDR: WHY ’S TIME TO STOP TEGORISG EACH OTHER
• IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
• GAY XHOSA MEN’S EXPERIENC OF ULWALO (TRADNAL MALE IATN)
• A GAY THERAPIST DISCS GAY MEN AND TATTOOS: RUAL AND MEANG

UGANDA GAY ON MOVE

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. 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 TRIB’ ON GRDR: WHY ’S TIME TO STOP TEGORISG EACH OTHER

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.

We n see om such referenc, that homosexualy was prent Ai om at least the earlit of European ntact, and whout much doubt, om long before. 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.

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

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.

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

Two terms are mon, ‘yan dda, which is ually translated as “homosexual” or “transvte” and‘dan dda, which translat as a homosexual “wife. 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.

A GAY THERAPIST DISCS GAY MEN AND TATTOOS: RUAL AND MEANG

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). In Evans plays the betiful storyteller Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who provis the heart of the film (the greatt acplishment is that Adams keeps dienc' attentns rapt, even scen wh stars Adam Beach and Irene Bedard), now 46, reteamed wh Signals filmmaker Sherman Alexie 2002 to star the gay Native Amerin film The Bs of Fancydancg. Yet perhaps even more ridiculoly, a 'gay tribe' refers to a way of differentiatg between men on the gay datg app 'Grdr', and somethg which has found s way to our everyday disurse about gay men.

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