Via Page One Q, a disturbing report on a gay scandal that reaches all the way to the top of Zimbabwe's infamously anti-gay and corrupt government ...
Zim Daily reports gay activist Dumisani Dube is in hiding and Zimbabwe's dreaded state security agency is hunting him after he disclosed a long term relationship with a cabinet minister who infected him with HIV.
The minister in question is Stan Mudenge, one of the closest advisors to dictator Robert Mugabe. Currently, Mudenge is the Minister of Higher Education but from 1995 to 2000 he was the country's foreign minister and its principal spokesperson.
As a result of the interview, Dube, formerly with Gays And Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), faces arrest and prosecution. He claims that agents of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization are hunting him. "I am not saying that you exposed me or anything like that. But I feel my life is in danger now. I went public about my homosexuality over ten years ago and about my HIV status some five years ago. The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I am gay”, Dube told the newspaper.
The activist also claims that Mugabe is a hypocrite and tolerates closeted homosexuals. He has threatened to expose the names of closeted gay ministers and politicians. "In fact I know about six ministers and former ministers who are gay. Some of them have slept with my friends."
However, there are some credibility issues with the report. Dube was recently fired from a position with GALZ "on allegations of recklessly infecting 12 other homosexuals with HIV." That scenario sounds somewhat sensational, given the sky high HIV rates in Zimbabwe and the organization's safe-sex, anti-HIV message. However, independent sources have verified the manhunt so the case remains curious and wide open ...
Gay activist goes into hiding, threatens to expose Mugabe's six gay ministers [Zim Daily]
Some Background ...
This is the expected backlash when an oppressed people finally stand up and refuse to be oppressed anymore.
Like the rise of the Klan in post reconstruction America and the fear of the Black man, the world is now writhing under the threat of the dreaded 'gay agenda'.
The Klan lost. Blacks got civil rights. It's just a matter of time when same gender loving people around the globe experience a similar emancipation from this oppressive and blatantly hypocritcal religious bullshit.
But we all have to do our part by lashing out at injustice in our every day lives -- stoking the fire for sure, but in the end we assist it to finally burning itself out.
Reason will eventually reign over religious dogma and hypocrisy.
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Posted by: taylor Siluwé | 20 April 2007 at 11:01
And, his example of homophobia should be a lesson for gays and lesbians in this country, when you don't face homophobia head on from these religious zealots and elected officials, this is what can sadly happen.
I sure hope that he has escaped this totalitarian regime and is some other country to avoid a beating or worse, murder from the state police.
Posted by: Tyrone | 20 April 2007 at 13:04