Comments on: 9 Convicted of homosexuality in Senegal

By: Karl Rosenqvist

Karl Rosenqvist — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:57:19 +0000

I wouldn’t write off the possibility of change in Africa to easily. After all, Poland and Kazakstan are coming along nicely, Russia and Turkey has to bend to the EU if they wanna join up and even Spain has come around 180 degrees. Even China is feeling the pressure.
It takes some time for change to happen ofcourse but it happens quicker after it’s happened somewhere else. Here in Sweden we’ve worked for over 50 years and we’re at the point where politicians check with us just to get things right.
With South Africa and the support of the United Nations I think we might be looking at great improvement all round in as little as 20 years, 10 if we put our backs into it.

By: Priscilla Anne Rose

Priscilla Anne Rose — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:17:38 +0000

Why should I, my last post was totally ignored; why should this or any future one be any different.!You people can’t accept the truth and just bury your heads in the sand. I am Gay and proud; at least I admit it.

By: Trace

Trace — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:38:33 +0000

ABQkevin, spoken like someone that has never visited the “American South.”

Ya know, there are quite a few fine redneck gay and lesbian folk out there.

By: Larry in Tucson

Larry in Tucson — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:49:59 +0000

ABQKevin,

I’m with you. These same countries have those conservative Anglican communions that are now sponsoring the US Episcopalian congregations that want to go back to the old days of no women/gays in the clergy. There’s no talking sense to these types. They have made up their minds and don’t care to be confused with facts.

By: ABQkevin

ABQkevin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:16:59 +0000

Of course you express an enlightened, liberal view, dear coxygru paris. But there’s not much chance of “educating” African populations and their leaders anytime soon on the necessity to support western-style human rights for everyone. They’re stuck in primitive ideologies (just like other third world nations and the American South), and there’s not much gay people can do to change that.

By: c.e.

c.e. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:05:13 +0000

ditto for me abqkevin. i wonder when obama’s “whistle stop tour” thru all of these bigoted african nations is going to take place.after he’s done kissing rick warren’s rear end,he will start kissing up to their’s. he needs to be loved more than bill clinton and it appears he needs more love from bigots than the worldwide bglt community and their supporters.

By: coxygru paris

coxygru paris — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:01:26 +0000

GLBT people, dear ABQkevin, should not boycott African nations. For their own safety, they should steer clear of them! Instead, they should form/join/sponsor groups dedicated to educating African populations and their leaders about the realities of basic human sexuality (same-sex behavior is as old as humankind) and the AIDS health crisis. Their crisis is the entire world’s crisis. We’re all intertwined.

By: ABQkevin

ABQkevin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:46:52 +0000

No surprise here. With the exception of South Africa, EVERY country in Africa is viciously anti-gay.

GLBT tourists should boycott these nations and refuse to provide any financial support for their hateful societies.