Gay rights in Africa and the Caribbean: ‘We have to change mindsets too’ It's LGBTQ+ History Month. LeahMahon_ looks at whether African and the Caribbean are truly making progress in the fight for gay rights.
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Leah Mahon looks at whether African and the Caribbean are truly making progress in the fight for gay rightsON A roadside in Eldoret, Kenya, the lifeless body of an LGBT activist lay stuffed inside a metal box with his eyes gouged out and sock stuff inside his mouth as a court case remains underway in the fight for justice over his brutal killing.
In some countries, to be gay means a prison sentence and in others such as Mauritius, Somalia, South Sudan and parts of Nigeria where sharia law is practised, to be gay is punishable by death.South Africa remains the one and only African country to legalise same-sex marriage. that the effect of constitutional change for gay people living in Africa was hard to gauge as the country grapples with ongoing homophobic violence.
Some Bajans recently marked the death of Darcy Dear, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist and founder of the United Gays and Lesbians Association of Barbados .have all made constitutional history by banishing their archaic laws around same-sex relations. “I heard some people just walking on the beach and there were some queer people. And then one of them said we could hold hands now,” she tells“So, there is this joke that we are now included. I don’t think it will happen overnight, because it takes some time to sink into the psyche of people.”The increased exposure to technology during the Covid-19 pandemic and the influx of digital nomads, Donnya believes, is changing the landscape of Barbados and the kind of people that reside on the island.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, colonists implemented Christian fundamentalism as the core belief system when once before ancient African spirituality and traditions like Voodoo, Pocomania and Orish were widely followed in African countries, and even survived the journey to the Caribbean. Many of these British colonial-era laws and Christian fundamentalist beliefs are still widely practised across these two regions.
For some, to be gay is to be Westernised, to have forgotten where you have come from and to be un-African.
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