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Love Falls On Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives

Autor Robbie Corey-Boulet
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2021
In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared "Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights," but still today there is little consensus on how to advance those rights beyond the U.S. and Europe. The fact is that international LGBT activism and allies have created winners and losers. In Africa those who easily identify with the identities of the global movement find support, funding and care. Those whose sexualities don't align so neatly don't.

In this faithful and moving investigation, award winning journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet shows that LGBT liberation does not look the same in Africa as it does in the United States or Europe. At a time when there is a groundswell of interest in LGBT life in Africa and attempts at reversing LGBT rights across much of the 'developed' world Corey-Boulet lays bare past failures. To the extent that there exists a right way to engage on LGBT issues in Africa-and, indeed, worldwide-Love Falls on Us is for those looking to learn what it is.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786995179
ISBN-10: 1786995174
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction

Part 1: Cameroon

1. Indomitable Lions
2. Do No Harm
3. More Fear Than Joy
4. Human Rights Feeds on Horror
5. Love Falls On Us

Part 2: Côte d'Ivoire

6. Here in the Realm of Art
7. L'Affaire pédophilie
8. A Life for Two
9. Winners and Losers
10. Brahima du jardin

Part 3: Liberia

11. Everybody Will Carry Their Own Burden
12. Anti-Liberian, Anti-God
13. Let That Awareness Be Created
14. Grown Woman
15. Finding Our Own Champions

Recenzii

At last, a book with fresh reporting and nuanced insight on the LGBT community in Africa. Corey-Boulet launches the reader into the fight for the rights of queer Africans, with thoughtful attention to the global and local dynamics of activism across cultures. Even better, he gives us more stories of ordinary African lives, animating them with context and charm. This is an important book.
In Africa, gay rights - like most other human rights - exist in a tenuous state, merely tolerated in the best of times, violently repressed in the worst. But beneath the surface, gay lives go on, and unique forms of gay culture thrive even in hostile environments, as Robbie Corey-Boulet writes in this vivid and important book. Their voices are heard in Loves Falls on Us, loudly and irreverently, revealing surprising truths about Africa - and the people who misjudge it from afar.
Corey-Boulet offers a rare insight into the lives of queer men and women in three African countries. These moving life stories defy stereotypes of African queer people as passive victims in need of liberation, and show how the geopolitics of LGBTQ rights can inadvertently harm the very people they aim to help. Crafted by a gifted and sensitive writer, Love Falls On Us is a landmark of journalism that illuminates the deep story behind a sensationalistic issue drawing on both long-term investigative journalism and social studies. It will be essential reading for those involved in the global fight to combat homophobia but also to human rights activists, postcolonial scholars, and students of contemporary Africa.
Love Falls on Us offers moving accounts of LGBT Africans' lives and loves, while demystifying the complexity of gender and sexual diversity politics on the continent. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in LGBT rights and activism.
This book provides a gripping portrait of queer life in West Africa, and an intimate insight into the resilience, courage and creativity of those who are marginalized, not only by societal norms of gender and sexuality, but also by global narratives of LGBT rights.
Robbie is a meticulous researcher with an unparalleled knowledge of LGBT rights in Africa, a deep connection with local activists, and an understanding of the complex relationship between well-intended outside human rights groups and the local activist community.
Explores with nuance and sophistication the paradoxical effects of transnational LGBT rights activism.
"Love Falls on Us" deepens our understanding of these lives beyond the persecution described in Western media. Corey-Boulet's work more than rises to the challenge by elevating the extraordinary ordinariness of L.G.B.T.Q. Africans who are trying to live full, peaceful and free lives in the places they call home.

Notă biografică

Robbie Corey-Boulet