Face-to-face with a gay couple

If it is not in the way they dress, its certainly in their gait or the way they talk. Not too long ago, they were not this bold or obvious. No one in Botswana was interested in taking up their fight. Today, although a bit more confident, they still live in shadows of the grey area of the Penal Code that makes them guilty of acting out their feelings in a physical. No longer ignored or left on the sidelines of 'regular society', someone is standing up for them.

Recently, BONELA(Botswana Network On Ethics And HIV/AIDS served the government with a statutory notice to sue and challenge the penal code that makes same-sex sex, and by default homosexuality, a criminal offence.