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...wedding last year in Lamu, a coastal town in Kenya, a mob of 2,000 hounded them, forcing them to hide in a hall of a museum where the ceremony was to take place. "In African culture the act is forbidden," says Philip Mwangi, a security guard at a Nairobi supermarket. "People get angry when they hear about it. Why should a man marry another man when we have so many rural ladies hanging there...
...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...
...Like Ochilo, Kinyanjui, who is a Nairobi-based marketing manager, is careful whom he tells about his sexual orientation. When colleagues at a former job discovered he was gay, some threatened to quit and others began cleaning the phone every time he used it. "People become outcasts," he says. "Society doesn't want to have anything to do with you." Scholastica Mghallu, 28, a lesbian teacher in Kenya, says she looks forward to the day "when it will no longer be a crime to be gay. We need to uplift each other...
...living with his boyfriend of 13 years, Kinyanjui earned the admiration of his mother and siblings by being open and honest. "My mum never showed me any hatred and so the rest of my family had to follow suit," he says, sipping a cold drink at an upmarket Nairobi restaurant. "I think if you give respect you will get it in return." For African gays and lesbians, though, finding that attitude in others remains rare...
...murder of his idealist young wife Tessa prompts career diplomat Justin Quayle, a member of the British High Commission in Nairobi, to investigate the humanitarian causes that she lived--and may have died--for. Before long, the widower finds himself on the trail of a shadowy pharmaceutical multinational selling a questionable TB drug to Africans. No one plays this sort of cat-and-mouse game better than Le Carre, although this time good and evil are a tad too easy to tell apart...