A gay Kenyan’s story for the new website:<\/strong><\/p>\n“As I strolled to the shop with my friend little did we know what awaited us. When we go to there we didn’t think much of the group of men who were seated across the road.<\/p>\n
‘Why do you pretend to be men yet you are girls,’ one of them angrily asked as he pushed me.<\/p>\n
‘Fight with us because you pretend you know how to fight. Fight like a man,’ another said.<\/p>\n
Some of the gang members then hit me, abused me and tore my clothes, while others shouted: ‘Today, you will know how to live with men.’<\/p>\n
Even as they pushed me to the ground, I picked myself up because I was determined to go down fighting.<\/p>\n
With my clothes torn and covered in blood, I feared the gang would carry out its threat to rape me to ‘make feel like a woman’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“If the human rights of gays are affected, we speak out,” Mr Wambua said.<\/p>\n
Kate Kamunde said she intended to use the site to encourage other gay people to disclose their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n
“We have very many people who are still struggling to come out, so I’ll first do a ‘coming out’ story,” she said.<\/p>\n
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga stirred controversy last year when he said homosexuality would not be tolerated in the country.<\/p>\n
Gay and lesbian people risk a jail-term of up to 10 years if they are convicted of homosexual acts.<\/p>\n
Homosexuality is a criminal offence in many African states.<\/p>\n
In Uganda, the government considered passing a law that would have imposed the death sentence on gay people, sparking an international outcry.<\/p>\n
In Malawi, a gay couple were jailed last year.<\/p>\n
President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned them after strong protests from donor countries, including the US and UK.<\/p>\n
He had previously denounced homosexuality as alien to African culture.<\/p>\n
Most religious groups in Africa are also strongly opposed to homosexuality, equating it to Satanism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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