Dibs

To update you on that Zimbabwean International Book Fair that Dibs! covered yesterday … well, as if things weren’t bad enough already, its gay and lesbian section was trashed by vandals! According to South African site IOL, “The gay and lesbian stand at Zimbabwe’s International Book Fair in Harare has been destroyed. Organisers granted the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) a stand at the book fair… The fair’s executive director, Greenfield Chilongo, confirmed the trashing of the GALZ stand.” Dictator Robert Mugabe’s “anti-gay stance resonates with many Zimbabweans,” reports IOL: “Mugabe has accused ‘gay gangsters’ of being among the saboteurs conspiring for regime change” in the impoverished and downtrodden African nation. Efforts by various groups have all “failed to get Zimbabweans to accept homosexuality” — thus, gays and lesbians there enjoy no constitutional rights. Greeaaaaat! All citizens of countries that are not Zimbabwe, you are forbidden from this moment onward to take anything for granted.