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It offers regular clinic days at its Harare drop-in centre and referrals at its other drop-in centres, in Mutare and Masvingo, for a range of health-care services, including HIV prevention and treatment.
Perhaps with a few more visits and more interaction with the young people around him, who are so much more self-assured in their sexual orientation and gender identity, it may not be too late for Mr Manyati to give name to his feelings. Here at GALZ, everyone tells him “who they are,” says Mr Manyati. So why should I marry a female?”, he says, visibly grappling with complex concepts about his gender identity without the vocabulary to do so. “I couldn’t get married because I have the body of a male but, inside, I feel like a female.
As the sole caregiver for his parents and siblings, they eventually gave in and he lived his life single, never coming out to his parents. While his parents insisted on marriage for some time, Mr Manyati stood his ground. Happiness is something Mr Manyati has tried to carve out for himself, despite the odds.īorn in Mutoko, a small town in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland East Province, Mr Manyati says his parents expected him to get married in his twenties to a woman and to carry on the family name as one of the seven Manyati sons. Under these conditions, it is an act of defiance just to exist and, even more so, to be deliberately happy. In the first half of 2021, there has been a spate of murders of young gay men and an outcry from the LGBTI community for the government, media and public to take hate crimes more seriously. While same-sex marriage is legal and LGBTI rights are constitutionally enshrined, being gay is dangerous. Beyond the insults, the threat of jail is real, as Zimbabwe punishes same-sex sexual relationships with up to 14 years imprisonment.īeyond jail, there is the everyday lived experience of discrimination, violence and hate crimes with which LGBTI people must contend-not only in Zimbabwe, but also in the 69 countries worldwide that criminalize same-sex sexual relationships.Īnd even in countries that don’t, like neighbouring South Africa. While being at GALZ makes him happy, as soon as Mr Manyati ventures out beyond the gates of the premises, he must be guarded and vigilant. GALZ maintains that the hatred and fear caused by the late president’s particular brand of homophobia, “is still being felt in Zimbabwe today.” The kind of homophobia that, as recently as 2017, saw the former president describe gay people as, “worse than dogs and pigs.” Remarkable for someone who has grown up around pervasive homophobia. His eyes don’t stop shimmering while he talks. “When I see people like me, I feel very happy,” says Mr Manyati in his musical, soft-spoken voice. While Mr Manyati may look out of place, being at GALZ is the most “comfortable” he has ever felt as a gay man living in Zimbabwe in his 60 years. GALZ is a membership-based association that promotes, represents and protects the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in Zimbabwe. Mr Manyati is on one of his first visits to the drop-in centre of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in Mutare, in eastern Zimbabwe. His elegant poise, greying beard and baby blue shirt place him at least 40 years too old for this scene. Patson Manyati cuts an awkward and lonely figure in a room bustling with young people in their twenties.