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Malawi recently held its second ever LGBT+ Pride march. In a country where homosexuality is still illegal, it’s a brave, and hugely important, thing to speak out on. New grassroots Scotland-Malawi collaborations in this area are sharing experiences and standing together in solidarity.
First-ever Malawi Pride sees brave activists deliver demands to the president The first-ever LGBT+ Pride parade was held in Malawi. (Malawi Human Rights Commission/Twitter) Braving the threat of persecution, dozens of queer people packed the streets of the capital of Malawi for the country’s first-ever Pride parade Saturday (26 June). Organised by the Nyasa Rainbow Alliance, some 50 LGBT+ people marched through the streets of Lilongwe in a show of defiance. After an hour-long march through winding but silent thoroughfares as masked attendees sang and danced, the protesters handed a petition...
Mon 28 Jun 2021 00.00 EDT For a few hours over the weekend the streets of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, were covered in rainbows, as about 50 members of the countryâs persecuted LBGTQ+ community took part in the countryâs first Pride parade. The risks to those who took part are high. Homosexuality remains illegal in Malawi, and those who identify as anything other than heterosexual face arrest and imprisonment. Those on the streets of Lilongwe on Saturday, however, expressed joy that in a year during which events had been cancelled across the world, their parade was at last takin...