Straight Men Are Gay

A controversial Ugandan newspaper, Rolling Stone, has been ordered by its country’s High Court to stop publishing the names and photos of men it suspects are gay. The reports have allegedly incited attacks.

Homosexuality is illegal in 36 African countries, with South Africa being the only one on the continent that has legalised same-sex marriage.

Earlier this year the Ugandan government proposed a bill sentencing gay men and women to life imprisonment or death.

Of all the things to get upset about, men who like a bit of cock shouldn't be one of them.

It has been said in one form or another by many African leaders that homosexuality is “un-African” – in a world that is striving for racial equality not only in policy but in beliefs and values, we are told it’s a “white thing”.

It has been argued that in fact it was Western principles of Christianity that first made homosexuality taboo. So actually it’s this fear of gays that is “un-African”. It’s the fear that’s the “white thing”.

I must say that personally I have a lot of respect for homosexual men and women who are open about their preferences. Especially those from backgrounds and environments in which gayness is considered despicable.

Gay men, in fact, have much bigger balls than straights. Imagine being so open about a disposition that could get you at the very least ostracised or beaten up, and at the worst killed! A lot more courageous than, say, drunkenly punching someone because they support a different soccer team than you.

The same man that blatantly gawks at a woman’s cleavage will become offended and possibly violent if another man was checking out his backside.

The sad fact is women have become so used to be treated as objects that they barely notice anymore. Men, on the other hand, aren’t that familiar with an assessment little better than a hungry dog checking out a juicy pork chop, and therefore are uncomfortable with it.

Imagine a construction site of gay builders on their lunch break, whistling and making lewd comments at macho pedestrians.

This idea perpetrated on us by conservatives and Christians that there is something immoral about homosexuality needs to be disregarded with the contempt that we have shown such equally backward ideas as the apartheid Immorality Act.

This is not a gay issue, it is a freedom issue.