African same-sex sexualities and gender-diversity: an introduction

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Acknowledgements

This special issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality has been developed with the financial support from Hivos. We thank the organisations that contributed to the realisation of the conference on ‘Same-sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity’, including AMSHeR; Behind the Mask; GALCK; Gender DynamiX; the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York; Hivos; the Human Sciences Research Council; Humure; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; the UNDP and GALA. Hivos was the main sponsor of the conference. Co-sponsors were the Open Society Foundation, the Open Society Initiative for South Africa, Gay and Lesbian Action in Memory and UNDP Southern & Eastern Africa. We also thank all the participants who made the conference both meaningful and memorable.

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^1. Information regarding this meeting can be found at www.asssgd.org