Dear Ellen and Portia: Avoid the anti-LGBT police

Good luck to TV personality Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi as they vacation in Kenya and Tanzania, which both have laws against same-sex intimacy.

For two years, Tanzania has been arresting LGBT citizens and LGBT rights advocacy groups, jeopardizing anti-AIDS efforts.

But even Tanzania’s most homophobic police probably won’t arrest two celebrity American tourists though they are among the world’s most prominent lesbian couples.

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Related article about Ellen’s trip:

• Inside Ellen DeGeneres’ Unforgettable Birthday Trip to Africa (June 2018, Eonline.com)

Related articles about Tanzania’s anti-gay repression:

• 65 groups protest Tanzania repression, LGBT arrests (May 2018, 76crimes.com)
  
• Donors take aim at Tanzania’s ban on LGBTI health care (January 2018, 76crimes.com)
• Tanzania deports 3 anti-AIDS lawyers for ‘promoting homosexuality’  (October 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Protests surge as Tanzania jails anti-HIV lawyers; no charges (October 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Tanzania cries ‘homosexuality’ to block health-care lawsuit (October 2017, 76crimes.com)
• In Tanzania, 13 people attending a meeting are arrested for allegedly promoting homosexuality; operations of a Global Fund SR are suspended (October 2017, Aidspan)
• Tanzania: 12 arrests for allegedly ‘promoting homosexuality’  (October 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Tanzanian AIDS event disrupted by arrest of 20 ‘gay’ suspects (September 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Tanzania threatens to arrest all gay rights activists (June 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Teen posted on Instagram and the next thing he knew, a doctor was invading his body (June 2017, The East African)
• LGBT sex worker on Tanzania crackdown: I’m afraid (May 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Inside Tanzania’s AIDS-enhancing anti-LGBT crackdown (April 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Global Fund-supported programs suspended amid Tanzanian government crackdown on LGBT community (March 2017, Aidspan)
• Tanzania ramps up anti-gay panic, risks HIV expansion (February 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Homophobia Explodes In Tanzania, Health Minister Threatens ‘Gay List’ (February 2017, The Advocate)
• Tanzania: U.S Warns Govt Ban May Stall HIV Fight (February 2017, AllAfrica/The Citizen)
• Tanzanian official seeks 3 arrests in ongoing crackdown  (February 2017, 76crimes.com)
• Tanzania’s anti-gay effort raises risk of HIV rebound (November 2016, 76crimes.com)
• Tanzania’s anti-gay crackdown now targets AIDS programs (November 2016, 76crimes.com)
• Seeking to limit gay sex, Tanzania bans lubricants (July 2016, 76crimes.com)