Soccer fans and LGBT supporters in Cape Town, South Africa made a statement against Nigeria’s recently passed anti-gay law when the South African team, Bafana Bafana, took on Nigeria’s Super Eagles in Cape Town on Sunday.
A “small but visible” contingent of demonstrators waved rainbow flags and carried pro-gay signs during the sold-out game in South Africa’s Cape Town Stadium on Sunday, reports Mamba Online.
“People were scattered all around the stadium,” demonstrator Alistair Mackay told MambaOnline. “We saw rainbow flags and even a rainbow umbrella…. While there weren’t enough of us to make a big impact in the stadium, we got into the news, which was perfect and what we wanted.”
Photos of the demonstration even made the front page of South African daily newspaper, Die Burger, with a headline which Mamba translated to read: “Gay Laws Under Fire at Soccer in the Cape.”
The activists, who organized and posted photos on social media, were protesting Nigeria’s recent criminalisation of homosexuality, which imposes 14-year prison sentence on anyone who marries a person of the same gender and outlaws public or private gatherings of LGBT people making declarations of same-sex relationships.
President Goodluck Jonathan signed the law on January 7, 2014.
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