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Even as a boy Patrick Kinyanjui knew he was gay. "I just wasn't attracted to girls," says the handsome 36-year-old Kenyan. "I even tried to have a girlfriend when I was 19 just to be sure it was not a passing thing but I couldn't keep her. I was dissatisfied with the relationship." Like many young gays, Kinyanjui struggled with "this conflict in me" before coming to terms with his homosexuality. "Once I accepted it I felt like a rock had been removed from my back," he says. "Being gay is not something you get into...
...Africa. With the exception of South Africa, whose constitution bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, most countries treat homosexuality as illegal and punish its practice with lengthy prison sentences. African leaders actively oppose gay rights and seem personally repulsed that some of their citizens may be gay. Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has called homosexuality a scourge, while Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last year ordered the arrest of a gay couple for "abominable acts." Perhaps the best known gay-hater is Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has in the past described gays as "beasts," "perverts" and "lower than...
...atmosphere of hostility, honesty is usually impossible. Ted Ochilo, 35, a gay courier in Nairobi (and who, like all the homosexual Kenyan men and women who spoke to TIME, asked not to be identified by his real name), married because "I am an only son and my parents insisted I produce an heir." But he has been in a gay relationship for the past five years and hides his sexuality from his wife, two children and co-workers for fear of being ostracized. "Being gay is something that people, if they have a choice, should not get involved with...
REGGAE FANS KNOW THAT A BURNING SPEAR CONCERT is an opportunity to gain a little cracker-jack island wisdom from one of the music's mystics. Winston Rodney-the 50-something-year-old St. Ann's, Jamaica, native who adopted his stage name from Kenyan freedom fighter Jomo Kenyatta-arrived at the Theatee District's Roxy Nightclub on the heels of his recent Grammy-winning album Calling Rastafari and with a revamped edition of his Burning Band...
...bevy of blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter of a second; and as Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie nipped Kenyan Paul Tergat at the wire in an even more exciting...