Description:
Examines the role of religion in LGBT activism in Kenya. Offers case studies of creative forms of queer visibility through which Kenyan LGBT individuals organize and present themselves in the public domain while critically engaging and appropriating Christian beliefs, symbols, and practices.
Brief description: Adriaan van Klinken is Associate Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS and coeditor of several books, including Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa and Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa.
Review Quotes:
"This book evokes many feelings but also forces one to confront one's own uninformed biases. It's a good read for those who often shout the loudest, without sufficient understanding of LGBTI lives."
--Yvonne Nyaga Mojatu