BURUNDI: Yves Niyonkuru: "I knew about HIV, but sex was better without a condom"

BUJUMBURA Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Yves Niyonkuru is a lanky 30-year-old Burundian who speaks easily about his life as a gay man in a society that has little tolerance for homosexuality. He told IRIN/PlusNews about his experiences since coming out of the closet. "When I was 18 I told my mother that I was gay. She was very supportive, probably because she has a brother who is a cross-dressing gay man herself - he lives in Brussels now, because he couldn't be himself here. To be...