A delegation representing gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe yesterday told the Constitutional Commission that they want a sexual orientation clause included in the constitution to safeguard their rights. The three made submissions amid interjections by some commissioners opposed to homosexuality, with some of them calling the gays and lesbians Satanists. Commission chairman, Justice Chidyusiku said the gays and lesbians should be allowed to make their submissions.
Sexual preference is a human right.
Ngwenya said she discovered she was a lesbian when she was 12. She said she was proud of what she was. Non-constituency Member of Parliament Ruth Chinamano bemused that someone can openly declare that they are gay tracked down Ngwenya after her presentation. Chanamano wanted to know what it meant for a woman to fall in love with another woman. Ngwenya said that although she has never been intimate with a man she was no longer a virgin.