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Activist opens second gay
centre
19 Jun 2007- Being gay in Zimbabwe just got a
little easier. Activist group Gays and
Lesbians of Zimbabwe has announced they will open a second
location in Bulawayo, the African nation’s second largest city. The
activists have been operating in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare since their
2002 founding, but found that many of their members could afford the
trek to community center.
GALZ’s efforts are especially important considering
gay sex remains illegal under Robert Mugabe’s increasingly disastrous
despotic rule. In an effort to give members more democratic freedom,
GALZ’s asked them to put forth a list of requests. GALZ director Keith
Goddard explains:
We have asked our members,
especially women at Bulawayo, to tell us their needs. They need almost
the same services offered by the GALZ head office such as counselling,
HIV and Aids support legal advice and so forth.
If only GALZ could help the entire country.
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