Zimbabwean Friend speaks at YFGM on gay rights
Silas Manjera spoke at Young Friends General Meeting in Edinburgh
by Rebecca Hardy
15th November 2019
A Young Friend from Bulawayo Meeting in Zimbabwe visited Edinburgh Meeting last month to tell Quakers about an organisation he has set up to help gay people.
Speaking at Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM), which was held at Edinburgh Meeting House on 26 and 27 October, Silas Manjera spoke about the community-based Bulawayo South AIDS Trust he formed to help counter challenges facing the gay community. According to the Young Friend, it is still taboo to be gay in Zimbabwe and there are policies and laws in place that criminalise the right of young gay people to access health services.
