“We are already in prison here. We are not free,” Serge (fictional name) confesses, with a mixture of tiredness, resignation and fear that goes through his entire narrative. His testimony shows how life becomes asphyxiating when being homosexual crosses with living with HIV in Senegal, where the two stigmas overlap. This young Senegalese does not speak of physical bars, but of a social climate where constant vigilance, the judgment of others and…
“We are already in prison here. We are not free,” Serge (fictional name) confesses, with a mixture of tiredness, resignation and fear that goes through his entire narrative. His testimony shows how life becomes asphyxiating when being homosexual crosses with living with HIV in Senegal, where the two stigmas overlap. This young Senegalese does not speak of physical bars, but of a social climate where constant vigilance, the judgment of others and…