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. ...
12/2/2000
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“REMOVE TRANSGENDERISM AS A MENTAL ILLNESS” ON IDAHO WORLD – 08 May 2009: As the gay community in the world prepares for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) on 17 May, Gender DynamiX and other trans and gay rights organisations are urging the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other states of the world to stop considering trans people as mentally disordered.
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Cathy Crimmins, author of How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization
