It’s no secret that many of the countries in Africa are some of the roughest countries to be gay.
Now a British LGBT activist with family in the Democratic Republic of Congo is
headed home after being held captive by family trying to make her straight!
According to NY Daily News reports: A British woman who was
being held captive in the Democratic Republic of Congo so she can be “cured of
gayness” is now safe, her girlfriend claimed.
Christina Fonthes, from Manchester, northern
England, traveled to Africa earlier this month with her mother and sister to
stay with an aunt. But shortly into her stay, the lesbian 27-year-old had her
passport taken by her mother, reports The Independent.
Fonthes, a LGBT activist, was told her family
wanted to keep her in the DRC to “fix” her sexuality. They were apparently
unhappy with her decision to be an out lesbian.
On Saturday, girlfriend Jessica Creighton
announced on Twitter that the Fonthes is safe and “on her way back to the UK.”
“It’s
been an unbelievably tough few days,” wrote Creighton, a sports journalist who
has dated Fonthes for three years.
Same-sex relationships are legal in the DRC,
although one MP this year tried to bring into law an anti-homosexuality bill.
Fonthes is the co-founder of Rainbow Noir, an
organization that aims to be a safe haven for LGBT people of color in
Manchester. Her friends from the group have been campaigning to raise awareness
of her case on social media.
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