Humanising Zimbabwean LGBTQI+ Narratives
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Purple Hand Africa was started in 2018, named from the historic, Friday of the Purple Hand, an early symbol of the gay liberation movement and an effort to show resilience in the face of anti-gay attacks. October 31st, 1969 activists protested the San Francisco Examiner's series of anti-gay articles by protesting in front of the building. Employees of the newspaper dumped purple ink on the peaceful protesters. The activists used the ink to draw slogans on the building and to make a visible mark of gay uprising.
Zimbabwe is one of the remaining 69 countries in the world where laws on the books make it punishable to be gay:
“Sexual deviancy” law passed in 2006 states that so**my is any "act involving contact between two males that would be regarded by a reasonable person as an indecent act"
