Gay Rights Activists Besieged at Book Fair

Gay rights activists abandoned their booth at Africa’s biggest book fair after it was besieged by fist-waving opponents trying to prevent the display of gay rights pamphlets. Roughly 100 protesters kept the activists from showing the pamphlets--which the government has called obscene--despite a second court ruling in favor of the group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe. Demonstrators in Harare chanted anti-gay slogans and brandished their fists at the empty booth. Some threatened to burn the stand. The activists said they will try to display their material today.