British LGBT Activist Held Captive By Mother And Family In Africa To Cure Her Of Her Gayness

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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