Gay Zambia - GlobalGayz

Contents:

• GAY ZAMBIA
• FOR GAY MEN ZAMBIA, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS BANNED, SUICI IS A COMMON END
• ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

GAY ZAMBIA

Those of who are black and gay approach Ai wh eply nflicted feelgs. Homosexualy is illegal nearly 40 Ain untri, and the harsht natns — cludg Sudan and parts of Nigeria — remas punishable by ath.

Beg gay isn’t illegal, but homosexual acts between men are outlawed unr the Zambian nstutn. The day I arrived, a headle the Zambia Daily Mail screamed “No Gay Rights. ” The article ma clear that gay rights would NOT be cludg a new draft of the untry’s nstutn.

FOR GAY MEN ZAMBIA, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS BANNED, SUICI IS A COMMON END

Lundu offered an timate look at what ’s like to be a gay man — out gay man — Zambia.

After his father died 2006, his fay turned to tradnal healers, “medice men” of sorts, to drive the homosexualy out of him. The untry has a virtual blackout of discsn of HIV among gay and bisexual men. The untry has no HIV preventn strategy for gay and bisexual men.

Too many Zambians believe that “muzungu” (the Zambian equivalent of grgo) brought this gay ms to Ai. LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — Chanda is lm as he reunts his battl agast homophobia.

ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

It’s a crime to be a homosexual here. Many people Zambia’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, who face potential imprisonment acrdg to lol law, say ’s a stggle to pe wh the emotnal trma that wh livg a place where one’s most personal practic or inty is regularly attacked. Chanda, a gay man.

There are no official statistics about the mental health of Zambia’s LGBT muny bee the ernment don’t legally regnize s existence, but Robertson’s experience match the data culled om other untri, even plac where ’s not illegal to be gay. Chanda says he first attempted suici when he was 15 years old, when he disvered that he was gay but uldn’t talk wh anyone about . Three years later, after hearg a prit preach hate and nmnatn for gay people, Chanda began to pray fervently that his sexual orientatn would change.

The last attempt was at universy, he says, after his room was nearly set on fire at night by stunts who disvered that he was gay. He asked that GPJ not publish the name of his anizatn bee he worri that will be targeted by anti-gay activists. REUTERS/Lus Jackson/File PhotoLUSAKA (Rters) - Zambia’s print has pardoned a gay uple sentenced to 15 years prison November unr lonial-era sodomy laws a se that ed a diplomatic row wh the Uned Chataba, 39, and Steven Sambo, 31, were among nearly 3, 000 mat pardoned by Print Edgar Lungu last Friday to memorate Ai Freedom Day, acrdg to the ernment gazette.