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| Women in Liberia are being frightened with the rise of gay Community |
Reports by Mae Azango for the FrontPageAfrica (Monrovia) says:
Some Unmarried women say gay men in the country are responsible for broken love affairs accusing these gays of enticing young men with money to abandon their female lovers.
Some of the women who were interviewed complain that majority of the men who are decent and have jobs and potential husbands are turning away from them and engaging in homosexual activities with their fellow men.
"Who says we do not want to get marry and settle down like decent young women, but how can we be, when the men are taking our boyfriends as lovers," says Monica Cooper, a resident of Carey Street in Monrovia.
Women lament that gays who are bisexuals, would take their boyfriends in the name of love, and lavish
money on them, usually results in the boys abandoning their girlfriends. On the busy streets of Monrovia at night, phone snatchers and thieves are seen roaming to steal, while call girls or prostitutes are in search of clients for the night.
In separate interviews with some of the call girls who asked to be paid for their time before being interviewed and their full names not revealed, the girls described the situation of men abandoning them for the love of money. "These gays who we call Dual Sims, are causing problems for us today because many of them are married in order to blind fool the Liberian people in covering up their dirty little secrets, while they are stealing our men from us,' says 28 year Rose, AKA Sweet Babe.
Rose laments: "I am not supposed to be living this kind of life but I had a guy who we stayed together for three years, but when we were catching hard time, one big gay man in this town, who people can call Big Daddy slept with my man and give him plenty money and bought him one SUV, so I was too local for him".
Sweet Babe had not completed her story when Theresa, AKA Heart Desire, interrupted, saying "What about me, my man traveled to Europe with one big minister in this town here and right after he came back, and I asked him, he slapped me and walked out? We already got man shortage here in Liberia since the war ended, but this gay them can't leave the remaining men for us. They will have their wives, then the small, small girls and after, they will have the young boys too, so what will they leave for us now?."
What's Men Take?
Some men have also accused CEO's companies and business, Bank Executives of attempting to sleep with them in order to get hired by those entities.
"I went to seek employment from a local cell phone company that I won't call the name, and the big man asked that I sleep with him in order to get the job as Marketing Manager", says a 26 year man claiming to be a recent graduate of the African Methodist Episcopal University who beg not to be named as according to him he does not have money to fight a big cell phone company.
Many of the young people who spoke with FPA say married gay men are called Dual Sim because they sleep with both men and women, while the original gays are called one Sim.
According to FPA: in 2011, FPA unearthed a story of young gays who admitted to being in relations with the same sex and needed freedom. Four youths told FPA behind closed doors that they wanted to live a normal life as normal partners do
It can also be recalled that Archie Ponpon, a Gay activist was beaten twice by angry mob, his mother house was burnt in the struggle for gay rights. He now serves as a court clerk of the Civil Law Court at the Temple of Justice.
Gays Get Green Light!
Mr Ponpon recently received a license from the government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to operate a fully fledge local non-government organization (NGO) to protect human rights including that of gays..
"I am glad that the government has sees reason to recognize us because the rights of all need to be respected this is why we have considered to establish this NGO" Archie stated.
According to Ponpon, Liberians should not be discouraged about the involvement of gay rights in his advocacy as according to him, he believes in the protection of human rights and called on those who have similar ideology to come forward to support the NGO.
Respect Incorporated which according to its organizer was established in the swamp community of West Point is expected to open its offices early 2014.
