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

Contents:

• FOR GAY MEN ZAMBIA, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS BANNED, SUICI IS A COMMON END
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) TRAVEL TO ZAMBIA
• THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF GAY PEOPLE IN ZAMBIA

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

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. 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 .

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) TRAVEL TO ZAMBIA

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 CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF GAY PEOPLE IN ZAMBIA

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.