News about an ongoing operation by D.C. police aimed at arresting male prostitutes and the male customers who seek their services surfaced last month when a male undercover officer posing as a hustler arrested the mayor of District Heights, Md., for allegedly offering him $40 for sex. James L. Walls Jr., 30, considered an up-and-coming political figure in Prince George’s County, was charged with solicitation for lewd and immoral purposes about 12:30 a.m. on April 24 at Sixth and F streets, N.W., near the Verizon Center. The arrest drew the immediate attention of gay activists, who noted that police ...

Like so many post-Colonial nations, Kenya continues to rail against its gays. While it’s still technically illegal to be gay in the African nation, ABC News found that gay men have found space in so-called “mixed bars.” Despite relative freedom on the dance floor, most gay men and women continue to live in fear. Unless, of course, they’re raking it in: The one exception to homosexual intolerance was, and continues to be, sex tourism. For several years during the Moi regime, there was a club in downtown Nairobi, frequented by British sailors and ex-pats, Steve said, where men could ...