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.

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.

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

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. 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.

ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

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 .