From fighting AIDS to demanding rights: LGBT activism in SenegalArticle 319 of the Senegalese Penal Code clearly states: "Anyone who commits an indecent or unnatural act with an individual of his or her own sex will be punished with a prison sentence of one to five years and a fine."When, in 2013, President Macky Sall said Senegal was “not ready to decriminalise homosexuality” and that “society needs to absorb, take the time to deal with these issues without pressure," Sall received plenty of public support.For Habibou, the message is clear. "Things will never change.
There is no way I am going to marry a woman, as some people do. Conforming to the point of pretending to be straight doesn't make anyone happy.