Outed Zimbabwe Official Quits
Advocate,
April 4, 2002
The head of Zimbabwe's government broadcasting station quit his job just
before a government inquiry was to be launched investigating allegations of
his homosexuality. Alum Mpofu, chief executive of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Corp., resigned after he was accused of being caught having gay sex in a
Harare night club, the country's state newspaper, The Herald, reported
Wednesday.
The Zimbabwe government is well-known to be hostile to gays, and the
country's president, Robert Mugabe, once described gays and lesbians as
"worse than pigs and dogs."
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