“Uganda is the new Zimbabwe”
"President Yoweri Museveni is the Robert Mugabe of Uganda, a homophobic tyrant who tramples on democracy and human rights, said Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
gay men liable to jail for life in zanzibar March 25, 2004: A moral panic over homosexuality in Zanzibar has prompted the island's government to draft a law imposing life imprisonment for men convicted of gay sex....
25/3/2004
no boat after all May 26, 2003: Doubt has arisen over the existence of a boat carrying US gay tourists whose supposed arrival sparked huge protests in the capital of Tanzania and later in the Kenyan port of Mombasa....
26/5/2003
protest targets gay tourists March 10, 2003: A noisy protest is scheduled to greet gay American tourists as they arrive in the
Tanzanian capital this week, 365Gay.com reports ...
10/3/2003
homosexuality in tanzania 1998: In Swahili there is traditionally no word for "male homosexual". (If one has been coined recently, it is not generally known.) There is a term for "lesbian": msagaji, literally, one who grinds....
12/12/2000
deported for being gay 1998: I am a British gay man. In 1990 I went to Tanzania as a volunteer, to teach at a college in the small coastal town of Bagamoyo. I had expected to be celibate, but I met a younger, Tanzanian man,...
12/12/2000
the gay muslim marriage in tanzania Undated: Two gay Tanzanian Muslims, Mohammed Issa and Abdulrahman Juma exchanged rings and were married in public ceremony. ...
12/12/2000
traditions November 3, 1997: An old Tanzanian tradition in which women may marry women, alarm Aids workers - but not because the 'married' women have sex. ...
3/11/2000
lgbt group opens in dar es salaam November 2000: Community Peer Support Services (CPSS) is an LGBT movement started by a few queer activists three years ago to advocate for the rights of LGBT people in Tanzania. ...
2/11/2000
letter to east african October 17, 1997: A contributor from Dar es Salaam wrote in homophobic terms that male homosexuality is alien to African culture....
17/10/2000
'nasty' cardinal prompts gay wedding May 6, 2000: A religious leader's condemnation of homosexuality in Tanzania has provoked a sharp response from gays and human rights activists....
6/5/2000
amri ya muungu 1998: In a letter written to his friend Oskar Baumann - an Austrian explorer, in 1899, M. Haberlandt discusses occurrence of homosexuality in Zanzibar. ...
a subtle struggle in africa August 29, 2004: gays gaining some ground, but many still persecuted, Young pastors use ugandan church to teach tolerance [more]
“Uganda is the new Zimbabwe”
