Gay rights appear to have become a new frontier
in diplomatic relations between Western powers and African governments,
with the US and UK warning they would use foreign aid to push for
homosexuality to be decriminalised on the socially conservative
continent...
UK-based Justice for Gay Africans campaign group co-ordinator, Godwyns Onwuchekwa, told the BBC that with US Christian evangelical groups increasingly active in Africa, hostility toward gay people has worsened on the continent.
“The evangelical lobby is very powerful and we know that they lobbied Uganda’s parliament in 2009 to introduce anti-gay legislation,” he said, referring... read full article here
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