00:01Prosecuted for being gay and disowned by his family, a son left Senegal seven months ago for France.
00:08As anti-homosexuality laws were being tightened, the pressure and stigma from his own family also became unbearable.
00:16Now he's seeking asylum.
00:19It's been at most six or seven months since I left my country because of my sexual orientation, which my
00:26father had found out about.
00:28Senegal has enacted legislation doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years
00:37in prison.
00:39I didn't choose to be gay, and I never wanted to be gay.
00:42And it's something I fought with every fiber of my being so that I could change my life.
00:48But it was something stronger than me.
00:51According to media reports, dozens of men have been arrested under the anti-LGBTQ laws since February, when police made
00:59a string of detentions.
01:01I don't know you had the success.
01:03It was something short of life that there would have been taken.
01:04You had a look through the thinking that someone picked up against me versus me.
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