Media attention has recently focused on the Ugandan government’s consideration of legislation that would make homosexual behavior punishable by the death penalty. There are 31 countries that criminalize homosexual acts on the African continent.
For a wider look at the issue of gay rights in Africa, Daljit Dhaliwal interviews Michael Heflin, the director of the Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Intersex Rights Initiative at the Open Society Institute.
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Read our blogwatch: Gays in Africa face increasing homophobia.
03/11/2010 :: 11:30:19 AM
Fart Smeller Says:
Regarding the American Clergyman emigrating his business(?) to an already troubled nation:
Would it not be easier for a theif to take what he covets from you, if, HE is the one telling you to leave your doors open while you are gone?
Why kill the messenger? Why not? It would be a classic update of the tale where an innocent messanger is hated and killed for the news he is only meant to deliver.
Germans, queers, and blood… Oh-My… Dorothy; Look Toto! A talking scarecrow!
Why spend millions to make war, when a few strategically placed words are much cheaper to weild?