GlobalGayz Β» Africa Β» Senegal. Senegal is an 'African success story'. Senegal is a tolerant Muslim society, with wide religious freedoms, a taste for sexy fashions, and even legal prostitution. But when Senegal's first gay organization, Groupe Andligeey, tried to have a meeting in in Dakar the nation's Interior Ministry prevented it. Various Senegalese Muslim brotherhoods exercise a strong political influence in the country. There has been made significant progress in dealing with HIV.
The latest arrests of two men and two women in the capital, Dakar, prompted the comments. Police arrested the four after β¦ Read more Β». It is not easy to find gay women in Senegal. Homosexuality is illegal in the country, though several small LGBT rights groups operate there. But because they were founded during the AIDS crisis and considered as actors in keeping down HIV infection rates, they are focused on men.
Lesbian women are now starting to fight β¦ Read more Β». The crowd formed last Tuesday at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, after one student accused another of hitting on him in the showers. Amateur footage showed the group going around various buildings of the institution, shouting β¦ Read more Β». When rumours spread that a male student had hit on a classmate in the showers of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, all hell broke loose.
A mob formed to track down the suspected homosexual, causing serious damage to buildings on the campus. Is a recent mass arrest evidence for a continent-wide backlash against American policies? Not so fast. Reports from the West African nation of Senegal say that the government has arrested 11 people accused of homosexual acts. Residents in the Senegalese town of Kaolack say police have arrested 11 people accused of homosexual acts.
Boukhari Ndiaye said the arrested were among 20 people attending a celebration of a gay marriage at a school in the town about kilometers miles southeast of the capital, Dakar, on Friday.
