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| Binyavanga Wainaina |
A message for the students I will meet tomorrow in Florence, at the Liceo Ginnasio Dante. Please, don't miss this coming out:
http://africasacountry.com/i-am-a-homosexual-mum/
Here a key excerpt:
"I have never touched a man sexually... [till 2000, when he was 35] I cannot say the word gay until I am thirty nine, four years after that brief massage encounter. Today, it is 18 January 2013, and I am forty three".
External repression and inner homophobia have being going along and are - hopefully - along retreating. When I was still repressing myself as a gay person, Harvey Milk was elected as a local council member in San Francisco, in 1977. Thirty years later, when in Europe we have many queer public figures, a new generation of pioneers are coming out in Africa and Iran, Arabia and India, China and Vietnam.
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