First black Ain nttants for Mr Gay World

Contents:

• ETHPIA’S FORMER MR GAY WORLD NTTANT ON BEG AN LGBTIQ ASYLUM SEEKER
• GAY PAGEANT DAZZL , AS FIRST BLACK AINS ENTER
• ETHPIAN MR GAY WORLD CONTTNAT MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY RETURNG HOME AFTER SHOW
• FIRST BLACK AIN NTTANTS FOR MR GAY WORLD
• MR. GAY WORLD TO BOAST FOUR AFRICAN FINALISTS
• FOR THE FIRST TIME, MR. GAY WORLD CROWNED IN AI

ETHPIA’S FORMER MR GAY WORLD NTTANT ON BEG AN LGBTIQ ASYLUM SEEKER

Robel Hailu, the man who reprented Ethpia the Mr Gay World ntt Johannburg 2012, has spoken out a vio about his stggl as an LGBTIQ asylum seeker. Hailu is also acknowledged as the first person to have publicly spoken about beg gay Ethpia.

Former Mr Gay World Ai Director, Coenie Kk, recently submted an affidav to immigratn lawyers the US to support Hailu’s se for asylum.

GAY PAGEANT DAZZL , AS FIRST BLACK AINS ENTER

Gay World 2012 petn Johannburg, due to the media attentn the petn attracts, to show his fellow gay untrymen that there are fact out and proud Ethpians and that there is hope – and to start a natnal bate on gay rights his home untry which was totally absent before.

ETHPIAN MR GAY WORLD CONTTNAT MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY RETURNG HOME AFTER SHOW

But for the first time, the nttants Mr Gay World me to Ai, a ntent where most untri still mata sodomy laws, sometim punishable by ath.

Trai Zhanje, the nttant om Zimbabwe where Print Robert Mugabe regularly brands gays as "worse than pigs and dogs", pulled out after ernment agents timidated his fay.

Gay rights are enshred the nstutn, and gays n legally marry and adopt.

FIRST BLACK AIN NTTANTS FOR MR GAY WORLD

He praised South Ai for supportg gay rights foms like the UN Human Rights Council, even the face of opposn om many other Ain untri. Many black gay South Ains still suffer discrimatn and attacks.

MR. GAY WORLD TO BOAST FOUR AFRICAN FINALISTS

Lbians particular are the target of "rrective rap" -- which their attackers claim the rape will "cure" their homosexualy. In some Ain untri, like Botswana and Malawi, younger gays are groupg together aid by the spread of cell phon and the Inter. "It's the search for a global (gay) ambassador who n reprent human rights, " he said.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, MR. GAY WORLD CROWNED IN AI

In Ethpia, Kk said, "there was never a talk or discsn or bate about (gay) issu before.