Ashley Currier Bücher

Introduction: how visibility matters -- The rise of LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa -- "This lesbian issue": navigating public visibility as lesbian movement organizations -- Disappearing acts: organizational invisibility in times of opportunity -- Homosexuality is African: struggles "to be seen"--Conclusion: why visibility matters.

By systematically documenting the emergence of politicized homophobia in Malawi, its appropriation by political elites as a strategy to consolidate power, and its effect on different social movements, Currier challenges Western portrayals of Africa as a hotbed of homophobia.