Unfortunately yes. Not you or many in this forum probably, but it’s popular many places to portray LGBT rights as “colonialism” and the idea that the western world is “exporting same sex relations” to places such as Africa. Then taking that a step further and using the forces of anti colonial feelings and nationalism and turning them against LGBT people. When it should be clear to anyone paying attention that, if anything, it’s homophobia that has been exported around the world, both historically and currently. Tons of examinations of the topic available, here’s one:
https://www.aaihs.org/did-europe-bring-homophobia-to-africa/
Not to say that Africa is a monolith where every single pre colonial culture was super LGBT friendly or something, but just general trends.
Unfortunately yes. Not you or many in this forum probably, but it’s popular many places to portray LGBT rights as “colonialism” and the idea that the western world is “exporting same sex relations” to places such as Africa. Then taking that a step further and using the forces of anti colonial feelings and nationalism and turning them against LGBT people. When it should be clear to anyone paying attention that, if anything, it’s homophobia that has been exported around the world, both historically and currently. Tons of examinations of the topic available, here’s one: https://www.aaihs.org/did-europe-bring-homophobia-to-africa/
Not to say that Africa is a monolith where every single pre colonial culture was super LGBT friendly or something, but just general trends.