Transnational Mobilization of Homosexuals Communities in Africa
Across the African continent there is an increasingly visible and audible LGBTI community, claiming social space and demanding legitimacy, in a context which is demonstrably repressive of homosexuality; homosexuality in Africa is no longer willing to stay hidden. In this new socio-sexual movement one can find socio-anthropologic meanings. The work presented is an analytical first draft exposing relations between the nascent collectives’ transnational mobilizations and contextual forces which prohibit homosexuality. The objective is to expose the framework in which the process of “visibilisation” of homosexuality takes place through new forms of community mobilization. One of our hypothesis is that the hostility of the social environment may contribute positively to feed and to strengthen those nascent mobilizations.