Jan 28, 2008Quickie Link: Zimbabwean Professor Reconsiders Africa's Homophobia
By vanrozenheim
(Zimbabwe) - Ever since the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, compared Gays and Lesbians to dogs and pigs, his country has earned an international reputation for homophobia. But a Canadian professor at Queen's University in Kingston who has spent several years working and doing research in the country says that view is wrong, and he hopes to prove it. Marc Epprecht says that life for Gays and Lesbians in the southern African country is "not really as bad as it's cracked up to be," and he's spreading that message in a new book published in Zimbabwe in late 2007. "Unspoken Facts: A History of Homosexualities in Africa" is the country's first mainstream book on the topic of Gay and Lesbian life.
