Western activism is causing more harm than good to a continent making LGBT people into scapegoats for colonialism.
As an LGBT activist, I was always happy to see my picture in the paper. It showed that I was doing my job, getting attention for the cause I believed in—and, of course, getting some attention myself.
But after a story about George Freeman, director of the Sierra Leone LGBT organization Pride Equality, was published in a local newspaper last year—with photos accompanying it—he was dragged from his car and beaten by two men on motorcycles.
Freeman never consented to the story; the newspaper culled its content from an MTV interview. His assailants were never caught. Read More
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