Wednesday, 16 May 2007

GAYS AND LESBIANS DECRY DISCRIMINATION

The only gay association in Africa held a conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Note that this is the only country in Africa that has enshrined the gay rights and issues in its constitution.

The conference attended by 60 gay people issued a report to the effect that they had been observing keenly the dangers that were as a result of public policies being passed by African governments making the acts illegal.

According to them, if laws that were accommodative to them were passed, people would understand them more.

This blogger’s two cents worth of advice to them is this: Do that in South Africa for if you try anywhere else in Africa, trust me, you will be ran out of town if not put in the coolers. Beyond that, do it in pitch darkness!

4 comments:

  1. I am not sure of the point your post is trying to make.

    Gay activists meet all the time in other African countries including Kenya. Kegale and Ishtar are very active and meet in the open.

    I may be gay but I am not an activist but your advise does not seem to apply to Kenya

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  2. By the way, just read through your entire blog( yap am a quick reader) and you do write very well and contemporary topical issues. I see very few comments though.

    It maybe because you dont respond to questions asked on acknowledge your visitors

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  3. ditto GNB!

    Need to add this: there are several gay associations in African, the conference u are talking about, however, was a first. Anyway, all over the world there is stigma against gays. The largest of these is Africa. Everyone has a right to association, Kenya's moral police need to be addressing real issues!

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  4. Thanks for your comments. Thanks for the compliments also. The gay meeting caught my attention i thought that i would give it a comment though. While its known that gays are everywhere even in Kenya, the response that they elicit from people is of disgust. Methinks if you want to partake the carnal pleasures anyway you like, do it with a consenting person and thats your business. But if the law catches up with you...... cant blame anyone, can you? It illeagal in Kenya remember.

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