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PRESS RELEASE: CASE CHALLENGING SECTIONS 164(A), 164(C) AND 167 OF THE BOTSWANA PENAL CODE TO BE HEARD ON 14TH MARCH 2019

On Thursday, 14 March 2019, a full bench of the Botswana High Court, sitting before the Honourable
Judge A.B Tafa, the Honourable Judge M. Leburu and the Honourable Judge J. Dube, will hear a case
challenging the constitutionality of sections 164(a), 164(c) and 167 of the Botswana Penal Code. These
provisions criminalise same-sex sexual conduct between consenting adults in Botswana and imposes a
maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment.

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TO REVOLUTIONARY TYPE LOVE: Kenya’s Kawira Mwirichia on Boldly Celebrating Queerness

I’d want TRTL to make us a proud community- not the kind of pride people think where we’re going around putting others down, but the kind that allows (and perhaps, even demands) that you occupy your own space wholly. I’d want us to be able to show up in all our flair and magnificence, whatever that looks like for each of us. And I’d want us to be thriving as a community – TRULY thriving. Inside and out.