The rationale I see floating around is that it’s an attempt to mitigate recruitment efforts by ISIS separatists. In any case, it changes very little in day-to-day life since Burkina Faso is a homophobic society anyways. Burkina Faso when it was a French neocolony was about as homophobic as it is now.
I’m not even sure if Sankara himself was cool with queer people. People thinking he was are merely projecting what they want him to be or assuming that just because he combated widespread misogyny that he would be cool with queer people somehow. Can someone find a law that Sankara sponsored or even a speech Sankara made where Sankara gave his support to queer Burkinabe?
The rationale I see floating around is that it’s an attempt to mitigate recruitment efforts by ISIS separatists. In any case, it changes very little in day-to-day life since Burkina Faso is a homophobic society anyways. Burkina Faso when it was a French neocolony was about as homophobic as it is now.
I’m not even sure if Sankara himself was cool with queer people. People thinking he was are merely projecting what they want him to be or assuming that just because he combated widespread misogyny that he would be cool with queer people somehow. Can someone find a law that Sankara sponsored or even a speech Sankara made where Sankara gave his support to queer Burkinabe?