This is truly horrifying! In Senegal, gay man's dead body is abuse and desecrated!
Madieye Diallo's body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit on its torso, dragged it away and dumped it in front of the home of his elderly parents.
The scene of May 2, 2009 was filmed on a cell phone and the video sold at the market. It passed from phone to phone, sowing panic among gay men who say they now feel like hunted animals.
"I locked myself inside my room and didn't come out for days," says a 31-year-old gay friend of Diallo's who is ill with HIV. "I'm afraid of what will happen to me after I die. Will my parents be able to bury me?"
The sad thing is how this mess is growing in Africa. There has been more reports across the country and it seems to be getting worse.
And what gets me, is the fact these acts are probably reactions from the evangelicals telling them all that jazz about God and how we should burn in Hell. I can't help but to think they have a role in this.
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Hi, i writing you of www.GuinGuinBali.com, an african portal web.Me gustaría que leyeses estas dos notas acerca de la homofobia en Kenya y Uganda:
http://bit.ly/8XjBvt
Thank you
Sadly, this extremist lunacy is not only growing in Africa but also America.
Of course, the thought of a deceased loved one turning up horrifyingly on our doorstep is beyond Americans comprehension; still, the motivating disrespect of gay people and their families and their right to exist in a civil society is quite apparent here at home.
Since the rise of Obama, the Ku Klux Tea Party has attacked equality in all its forms - health care equality, gay equality, a woman's right to make her own decisions, etc ....
Civil upheavals always accompany changes in the status quo. Just like the Westboro Baptist Church's insane antics actually (inadvertantly) work FOR the cause of equality, maybe this case of humanity in Africa will touch the hearts of those in Senegal who still have one.
Unfortunately V, it seems the pendulum is swinging right for a while.
Oh boy - this is inhumane and just wrong!
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