huffingtonpost.com – Alex Blaze – Managing Editor, The Bilerico Project
By now I’m sure you’ve heard of the Malawi couple that was recently sentenced to 14 years hard labor because they publicly proposed to one another back in December. Personally, I haven’t written about it since I know next to nothing about Malawi, but now coverage of the story has become a story in and of itself.
Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza are usually referred, in both the mainstream and LGBT media, as the “Malawi gay couple.” That assumes that both Tiwonge and Steven are men, and that they see themselves as men in a relationship. But it’s been fairly clear since the beginning that Tiwonge identifies as a woman:…