Gay
Muslim Marriage in Tanzania
Homosexuality
is illegal in Tanzania, as indeed it is on most of the
continent, bar the republic of South Africa where gay
rights are enshrined in the constitution. This, however,
was no bar to two gay Tanzanian Muslims, Mohammed Issa
and Abdulrahman Juma who exchanged rings and were married
in public ceremony, covered by the local media in March.
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Traditions
An
old Tanzanian tradition in which women may marry women,
alarms Aids workers - but not because the 'married'
women have sex. Rayner Ngonji reported in the Johannesburg-based
Mail and Guardian on November 3, 1997 MORE
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Deported
for being gay
In 1998 Simon Barne
was deported
from Tanzania for being gay. As a
teacher at a college in the small coastal
town of Bagamoyo he had expected to
be celibate, but met a younger
Tanzanian man with whom he started
an affair. Read his account on what
followed as well as an outsiders view
on homosexuality in Tanzania.
http://www.ilga.org/Information/Africa/
tanzania__deported_for_being_gay.htm
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