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Kenya LGBTQ+ dating app blackmail cases go to court

LGBTQ

The LGBTQ flag.

Photo credit: Raul Arboleda | AFP

By  Reuters

What you need to know:

  • Kenya's LGBTQ+ community has long stayed silent about blackmail and extortion.
  • Homophobic rhetoric has surged in Kenya following the enactment of a strict anti-gay law in Uganda.

Nairobi,

Joe smiled nervously from behind his shades as he emerged from the cramped wood-panelled magistrate's court in Kenya's capital Nairobi.

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