Angola
In Angola both male and female homosexual acts are illegal. Criminal law prohibits private, adult and consensual homosexual acts as "an offense against public morality".
A positive development for Angola’s homosexual population, however, is that gay men have become less invisible and are included in discussions on public health and the HIV epidemic.
Laws against homosexuality were first introduced during Portuguese colonial rule and have remained after independence.
Legislation
Male to male relationships: Not legal
Punishments for male to male relationships: Fines or restrictions or penal labour
Female to female relationships: Not legal
Marriage and substitutes for marriage: No law
More on the Angolian law on ilga.org
Social climate for LGBT in Angola
In 2010, the Angolan government refused to receive Isi Yanouka as the new Israeli ambassador due to his sexual orientation. For more, see article from ilga.org
LGBT organizations
None found as of July 2012
Conventions
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Other sources
Kurt Falk, a German anthropologist wrote about the same sex life among "some Negro tribes of Angola", in 1923. Two groups that he discusses, namely "Wawihe" and "Ovigangellas" had varying levels of practice and acceptance of same sex love. He claims that among the Wahihe , not only younger men but "adult males also gratify themselves in these ways". He notices that such attraction was generally denied in the presence of strangers like himself but after being acquainted with him most men would admit to having a male sex partner. There were many words in the language to characterize the difference between "non-sexual friend" and "sexual friends."
Source: Boy Wives, Female Husbands edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
