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Mombasa gay hookers who ‘eat life with a big spoon’

Gayism is slowly but surely getting tolerated at the Kenyan coast, rather grudgingly. So emboldened are some of the men who swing both ways that they now solicit and sell sex, just like ordinary prostitutes.

 Steve Kamangu was walking along Digo Road in Mombasa town around 11pm two weeks ago when he was stopped by a light skinned ‘woman’ across the road dressed in a buibui. Out of curiosity, he stopped and the all-smiles ‘woman’ crossed the road to join him.

A few seconds later Kamangu was reeling in shock. The ‘woman’ turned out to be a male sex worker who had spotted a potential customer in him.

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