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March 19, 2013
Pope Francis greets anti-gay president Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe's president Mugabe, who says gays are worse than dogs and pigs, has attended Pope's inauguration despite EU travel ban

Zimbabwe’s outspokenly anti-gay president Robert Mugabe has slipped into Italy  for the inauguration of Pope Francis despite a European Union (EU) travel ban due to his abuse of human rights.

Mugabe, banned since 2002 due to allegations of vote rigging and human rights abuses, was whisked today (19 March) directly from his plane at Rome international airport to the Vatican.

A priest greeted the 89-year-old president, his wife and son at the airport saying: ‘On behalf of Pope Francis, welcome to the Vatican, welcome to the Holy See’.

March 8, 2013
Rights group slam Zimbabwe's prime minister anti-gay slur

Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been criticised by gay rights group for fuelling anti-gay hate

Zimbabwe's gay rights group slammed prime minister's Morgan Tsvangirai denunciation of homosexuality, saying it was 'reckless' and 'unfortunate'.

January 31, 2013
Zimbabwe’s new constitution makes gay marriage a 'crime'

Reaffirming their belief homosexuality is unacceptable, Zimbabwe's government's new constituiton will have a new clause banning same-sex marriage

September 8, 2012
Activists claim Zimbabwe media invent gay shock stories

According to LGBT activists from Zimbabwe the state controlled media is inventing controversial stories about gay people to legitimise political repression and persecution

The Herald reported that Zimbabwe police in the city of Kadoma have arrested a ‘gay couple’ for homosexuality.

LGBT activists, however, say that the government owned daily paper made the report up in order to create media sensationalism designed to bolster proposed constitutional changes and further legitmise persecution of LGBT people in Zimbabwe.  

August 24, 2012
US condemn mass arrest of LGBT Zimbabweans

US authorities have condemned political violence and harassment by Zimbabwean security forces against the country’s LGBT rights activists

The US State Department has condemned the mass roundup of LGBT activists in Zimbabwe in what it has called ‘a pattern of abuse.’

Two truckloads full of riot police rounded up forty-four members of the group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) on August 11 and held overnight but all were released without charge the following morning.

Police claimed they were searching for illegal data and offensive materials.

August 12, 2012
Zimbabwe riot police arrest 44 gay activists

Forty-four members of Zimbabwe's LGBT organization - GALZ - were violently arrested yesterday by riot police squad and released without being charged this morning

Forty-four members of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) were brutally arrested yesterday and released today (12 August) without charges.

Four Zimbabwe police officers attempted to gain entry to the GALZ office in the nation’s capital, Harrare on Saturday (11 August).

The police officers called for back up and around 15 riot squad officers descended on the office and effected arrest.

May 30, 2012
Anti-gay Mugabe made UN 'leader for tourism'

Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell slams Zimbabwe president's new tourism role as 'outrageous' and 'appalling'

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe has been made a UN 'leader for tourism', angering activists who argue the anti-gay dictator's dire human rights record has driven travellers away from the troubled country.

May 25, 2012
Mugabe says gays harm women's rights

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says homosexuality leads to 'extinction' of human race as UN assesses country's human rights record

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says homosexuality harms women's rights and leads to the 'extinction' of the human race.

In yet another anti-gay tirade, the 88-year-old African dictator told a women's HIV/Aids and gender rights conference in Harare that the 'gay world' was unnatural and removed women's right to bear children.

February 27, 2012
Mugabe turns 88 with anti-gay tirade

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe tells UK Prime Minister David Cameron 'to hell with you' over gay rights

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 88th birthday on Saturday with a tirade of homophobic abuse.

The African leader told supporters at a mass rally to celebrate the ocassion that NGOs have 'stupid ideas' and blasted UK Prime Minister David Cameron for his pro-gay rights stance.

'Nature is nature. It has created male and female,' Mugabe said. 'That's how we were born, so we reject that outright and say to hell with you.'

December 21, 2011
Mugabe accused of gay sex with Banana

Zimbabwe MP arrested for accusing President Robert Mugabe of having sex with former President Canaan Banana

A female member of Zimbabwean parliament has been arrested for alleging that its homophobic leader Robert Mugabe has engaged in homosexual relations.

Lilian Kirenyi of the Movement for Demographic Change has supposedly struck out at anti-gay Mugabe. She has claimed the Zimbabwean leader has had sexual encounters both with former president Canaan Banana and former Information Minister for African State Jonathan Moyo.