Men Aquitted For Ordering Gay Drink

Two Cameroon men who were sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream have been acquitted of the charges by an appeals court. The two had already passed a year of their sentence before the acquittal.

Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon, and is subject to harsh penalties. Ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream hardly seems like conclusive evidence of being gay, though. I mean, yes, it’s from the country that brought us Billy Elliot and tiny rainbow-obsessed men in green tailcoats, but that doesn’t make Guinness and bar fighting particularly gay, does it?

• Two men jailed for ‘looking gay’ after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream acquitted [National Post]
  

Cameroon Imprisons Gay Men

Three men in Cameroon have been sentenced to six months hard labour for being gay. (This is in addition to six months already served in jail before the trial.)

Being gay is a crime in Cameroon, carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison. While the three men in this case aren’t serving the full sentence, they weren’t caught doing anything gay in particular either. I guess the judge just has some kind of super, acute gaydar.

Hey, how about that? Gaydar pings are now admissible trial evidence.

• Three men sentenced to hard labour for being gay in Cameroon [Canada East]
• 3 sentenced in Cameroon for being gay [Pierceland Herald]