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Mozambique in , dropped a colonial-era clause outlawing same-sex relationships from its penal code. People in many of these African countries consider gay people foreign or alien to the continent's culture. For Francis, these breakthroughs are just a few success stories — but not significant on a larger, continental scale.

Our rights are often abused, [we are] physically attacked and socially excluded. Latest audio Latest videos. Don't do the boy dirty like that. Francis spoke to DW about how he and other gay people in the East African nation fear for their lives. The back, which faced the protesters, is covered in mirrored panels, so the anti-LGBTQ protesters see themselves.

After three years of crafting this idea for a working piece of protection, Terrell came up with The Hate Shield. Atlanta artist Matthew Terrell has created "hate shields," four, 4-foot by 8-foot, sound-muffling panels to block anti-gay slurs at Pride festival. Angola in , became the latest African country to decriminalize same-sex relationships , after passing a new law to replace one that dated back to the colonial era.

This same sex marriage that gets imported, they have not asked for it. For your misfortune, I'm a hybrid gay-straight elemental, so I get elemental healing with gay. Its constitution also protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation. But for Manuh, gay people only want to be free from stigma and discrimination, as well as widespread threats and violence.

Atlanta-based artist Matthew Terrell created The Hate Shields, meant to muffle noise from megaphones used by anti-LGBTQ protesters at Pride events. Museveni last month described gay people as "deviations from normal" and more recently indicated he wanted the legislation strengthened to allow people who voluntarily renounce homosexuality to be "rehabilitated.

Latest videos Latest audio. Botswana's High Court made a similar move in , replacing a law that had dated back to when the country was under British rule. In some of the countries where gay sex isn't allowed — including Mauritania, Somalia, and Nigerian states that practice Sharia law — offenders can be punished by death or lengthy prison terms.

Francis, as he wants to be referred to, is a gay Ugandan who lives in fear following the passage in parliament last month of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill It calls for harsh penalties against anyone who engages in gay sex. The draconian bill, if signed into law by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , would impose the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and year prison terms for "promoting homosexuality.

They only option for him, he said, was to flee for safety elsewhere as it remains a tall order to have LGBTQ rights fully accepted in Africa. Yeboah — who is against same-sex marriages — said that weddings in the African context only promote union between two opposite sexes. They are only asking to be left in peace and then we try to confuse the debate," she said.

In focus. So it's not part of our culture orientation," he explained, adding, "it is not a tradition. My Rouxls pointing up appears to have found this image. But you're holding that shield's handle. The front is a rainbow design, which faces the Pride-goers. Despite stiff opposition to LGBTQ rights in Africa , a growing number of countries are legalizing same-sex relationships.

Uganda is not the only country where homosexuality is illegal and LGBTQ people face abuse, rejection and persecution. That's Hella gay. Yeboah said the push for the recognition of same-sex rights would continue to face stiff opposition in most African countries. LGBTQ activists in Uganda said the bill's passage triggered a wave of arrests, evictions and mob attacks against gay people.

But an African emerita professor of anthropology, Takyiwaa Manuh, told Ghana's state broadcaster that the there is nothing "foreign" about gay people in African society. People like him continue to suffer abuses in countries that preach homophobia. Heck. So a bi-elemental? So am I just supposed to use you as my shield?

Manuh said culture that is dynamic and evolves, so using culture as a defense for preaching hate against people who happen to be gay is unacceptable. Most of those laws haven't been changed since those countries gained independence. In , South Africa became the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage.

African sociologist Dr. Nana Obiri Yeboah told DW that people "exhibiting homosexual tendencies" isn't new in African society, however, gay people have been encouraged to be discreet about their sexuality.