For Gay Men Zambia, Where Homosexualy Is Banned, Suici is a Common End

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.

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

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.

ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

” 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.