New Year Issue
CONTRIBUTORS
Few bars make history of the textbook variety. Even fewer gay bars make it to people’s lips. Most of us are familiar with the Stonewall Inn where the 1969 riots defined the gay rights movement. Here in Nairobi, Olive’s bar will go down in history as Kenya’s first and only exclusively gay bar. And none other than BAR FLY can better remedy the fact that Olive’s may risk being in lost in memory. In this third installment, read and find out more about Olive’s.
JONATHAN KALAN, founder of The (BoP) Project is an internationally published journalist, photojournalist, and blogger specializing in social business & innovation in emerging markets. Currently based in Nairobi, Kenya, and a graduate of the University of California, in just 24 years he has traveled to over 35 countries, worked in South Asia and Africa, and collaborated with nonprofits, social enterprises, technology start ups, and media companies. His photography/ writing has recently appeared in Global Post, The Boston Globe, GOOD, Financial Times, The Star (Kenya), Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and others.
‘How might these emotions be manipulated in our society to ensure that members maintain socially accepted behavior?’AKINYI OCHOLLA is our latest addition as Identity Magazine’s columnists. With a bias in psychology, law, religion and law, she writes on topical issues affecting LGBT persons as well as offering analytical hindsight on human sexuality.
NEVILLE TIRIMBA, softspoken but headstrong is an aspiring novelist and film enthusiast. His interests range from photography, literature to travelling to foreign languages. He is very outspoken about human rights. He is a past participant in the Satima Essay Contest organized by the University of Nairobi for which he emerged among the top 6 finalists. He has also received honorable mentions in “The Kenya I Live” short story contest as well as the American Association of Private Enterprise (APEE) Essay Contest. He lives and studies in Nairobi where he is pursuing a law degree.
He has been referred to as the ‘Leader of Sex Workers in Kenya’ on account of his position as the National Coordinator of the sex worker movement in Kenya. An avid HIV activist and sex worker advocate, JOHN MATHENGE travels Kenya for awareness campaigns, and HIV and AIDS sensitization. He sits in the Board of the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance.