In many former colonies, anyway. But not all. The president of Niger just announced that he will be reforming his nation's criminal code and will in the process harshly penalize gay people. The details are awful.

But is colonial history the reason? Niger was a French colony that inherited a modified Napoleonic Code for its systems of civil and criminal law. Homosexuality was not a criminal matter in the Colony of Niger because it wasn't a criminal matter in France, which traditionally left matters of sexual morality to the tender mercies of the Church. Cough.

But French Catholicism never took root in Niger, which is 98% Muslim today. Did Roman Catholic values influence Muslims in Niger? Possibly. But I wouldn't bet on that influence being particularly strong.

I don't disagree with your point at all, but I find that a reflexive tendency to claim African homophobia necessarily sprang from colonialism ignores rather large parts of Africa.

Damn, I keep going off on side tracks today. Sorry.