gay animals

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says that gays and lesbians are less than animals. But new scientific research shows evidence of homosexual behaviour amongst orangutans.

Primates also homosexual
January 28th - The fact that homo-sexuality occurs not only among humans but also in the animal kingdom is nothing new. Up to now, however, there hadn't been such a clear example of homosexuality amongst primates living in the wild as now.

Researcher Elizabeth Fox of the Wild Life Conservation Society has been researching this phenomenon for the past four years.
The group of Orangutans that she has been observing lives in the jungle of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is in the nature of these primates to go through life alone.

Only when a female is on heat will a male court her and spend some time with her. Fox observed similar rituals between males who embarked on a short-term homosexual relationship.

Through ritual dances they courted each other, after which a relationship of one or more days emerged. With the older primates, this relationship usually lasted only one day, while the younger Orangutans usually stayed together for a longer period and satisfied each other sexually more often.

According to the prestigious American Journal of Primatology, it has now been shown that alongside dolphins, gorillas, kangaroos, sheep, whales, albatross and chimpanzees, homosexual behaviour also occurs amongst Orangutans living in the wild. They do however also conclude that the "phenomenon" occurs less frequently than amongst humans.

Mugabe bashes 'Blair's gays' in blistering attack

by SAPA-AFP

Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has threatened to punish gays, saying Britain is angry at him for his stance against homosexuality.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair should "expose" his cabinet as full of gays before critising Zimbabwe, Mugabe said on Saturday, 2 Feb. 02.

"I have people who are married in my cabinet. Blair has homosexuals," Mugabe told thousands of people at an election rally in the rural district of Wedza.
"We are saying they do not know biology because even dogs and pigs know biology. We can form clubs, but we will never have homosexual clubs. In fact we punish them".

Attacks on Britain are staples of Mugabe's speeches, especially as the former colonial power has moved towards imposing sanctions on his regime over his increasingly autocratic rule ahead of the March 9 - 10 presidential election.
The president, who has ruled since independence in 1980, is struggling for his political survival against a tough challenge from former labour leader Morgan Tsvangirai. ©

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lesbianism rife at school

Sunday News Correspondent

LESBIANISM has become so rife at a girl's school in Bulawayo that many pupils are openly known to have "spouses", Sunday News learnt this week.

Although the school head strenuously denied the allegations, former boarders at the school told this newspaper that homosexual affairs were common, especially among boarders.
They said some senior students coerced juniors to be their partners. Some juniors willingly engaged in the relationship, many of them involving prefects.

Students at the school said the relationships have been going on for a long time, and that the authorities were aware of the matter. They said two students were expelled after being found engaging in a "homosexual act" at the hostels.
But the school head denied that any students were expelled over the practice.

A teacher corroborated the girls' allegations. He said the school administration dealt with anaverage of three such cases a term.©