ZIMBABWEAN LAW AND THE PRODUCTION OF A WHITE MANS DISEASE

In Zimbabwe, many claims have been made that homosexuality is alien to local culture and has been imported by white settlers. This article a rgues that what was imported was not homosexuality but homophobia thro ugh the sexual erethism of colonizers imbued with Victorian incitement and missionary zeal. The article also considers why most of the repor ted trials for 'unnatural acts' in the last 30 years involve white men , and what effect this has on this discourse of homosexuality as a whi te man's disease.