Zimbabwe is a place where no Gay person exists officially, and GALZ is determined to change that. For men, especially young black men, the group is making strides. GALZ owns a house in the suburbs of Harare. It serves as a safe place for people to gather, to come together and create a community. Every Saturday night, there are well-attended, very public parties.
People come from literally across the country to revel in newfound freedom.
Police do not condone it, but neither do they aggressively interfere. Yet perhaps the most striking part about these and other GALZ events is not who comes, but who does not. Ska is not there. In fact, almost no women are. She says she knows of maybe eight black Lesbians in Zimbabwe, open or otherwise.