Chapter 3 - Africa

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Part three discusses Africa. There, a visible gay and lesbian movement opens up, the youngest
in the world and one that needs a lot of support, as illustrated by the articles about
Cameroon and Kenya. At the same time, South Africa was the first country in the world to
prohibit discrimination based on sexual sex, gender and sexual orientation in its constitution.

Amongst others, Simon Tseko Nkoli, gay, fighter against apartheid and against suppression
of gays, understood that discrimination against blacks is no different from discrimination
against LGBT persons. The two forms of discrimination were strongly linked to one another.
Whether that equal treatment really exists in the social realities of today’s South Africa is, of
course, an entirely different question. In any case, there are positive initiatives: the website
called Behind the Mask, which attracts and brings together numerous LGBT visitors, and
the muslims in South Africa who seek an interpretation of the Koran that allows sexual
diversity.