23 Quotes by Frédéric Martel‏

The two most dramatic new things homosexuals face in Africa are, first, Christian neoevangelicalism, which is often imported or inspired by the United States, and, second, political Islam, modeled on Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Ultimately, if Americans and Europeans sometimes appear ahead of their constitutions and laws, South Africa offers the peculiarity of being a country where the Constitution is ahead of the way its people think.

In South Africa, race and class are often far greater determining factors than sexual orientation.

And ten years after adopting the most gay-friendly constitution in the world, South Africa, under judicial pressure, authorized same-sex marriage in 2006. It became the first—and for now the only—African country to authorize same-sex marriage (and the fifth in the world). Mandela’s future successor, Jacob Zuma, would be a virulent opponent of this law.

Bureaucracy progresses at its own pace. That is to say, slowly.

The problem with provocation is that it is often counterproductive.

And a major phenomenon that is still underreported is taking place before our very eyes: the globalization of LGBT rights.

Not all Englishmen are homosexual.

Homogeneity is arguably a necessary step in the process of socialization for gays who have so long been isolated and alone.