![]() ![]() ![]() When the AP tried to speak to Diallo's elderly father at his shop on the main thoroughfare in Thies, his other children demanded the reporter leave. Several gay friends tried to see Diallo in the hospital but were told to stay away by his family, says the friend. Although the hospital has a unit dedicated to treating HIV patients, the young man's family never disclosed his illness, according to the doctor in charge. on May 2, 2009, according to the hospital's records. He was in a coma when he died at 5:50 a.m. Many returned to Senegal, where they lived on the run, moving from safehouse to safehouse. Gambia's erratic president declared that gays who had entered his country had 24 hours to leave or face decapitation. Gays immediately went into hiding and those who could fled to neighboring countries, including Gambia to the south, according to the New York-based commission. (AP Photo/Ricci Shryock) Ricci Shryock / AP A wave of intense homophobia is washing across Africa, where homosexuality is already illegal in at least 37 countries. They yanked out his corpse, dragged it from the weedy cemetery, spit on its torso and dumped it in front of the home of his elderly parents. Madieye Diallo's body had only been in the ground for a few hours when a mob descended on the cemetery with shovels. 5, 2010 photo shows Ousmane Diallo holding a picture of his son Madieye Diallo at his shop in Thies, Senegal. Some were beaten in captivity and forced to turn over the names of other gay men, according to research by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The day after the tabloid published the photographs, police began rounding up men suspected of being homosexual. The wedding was held inside a rented banquet hall and was attended by dozens of gay men, some of whom snapped pictures that included the gay couple exchanging rings and sharing slices of cake. The backlash dates back to at least February 2008, when a Senegalese tabloid published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in a suburb of Dakar, the capital. In fact, the visibility of gays in Senegal may have helped to prompt the backlash against them. In many towns, they were tacitly accepted, says Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, a professor of social anthropology at Senegal's largest university. Even though homosexuality is illegal in Senegal, colonial documents indicate the country has long had a clandestine gay community. ![]()
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