(The Christian Science Monitor) When Letsweletse Motshidiemang was growing up in a village in northern Botswana, no one used words like gay or queer. No one called him anything. In that silence was a quiet acceptance.
“People knew I was different, but I was surrounded by people who loved me,” he said. “I was never taught to hate myself.”
In 2016, when he was 21, Motshidiemang approached a law professor at the University of Botswana, where he was a student, and asked for help challenging Botswana’s “carnal knowledge” law, a colonial-era prohibition on gay sex.
