Selly Thiam Uses Google Search to Find African LGBTQ+ Stories

When Selly Thiam, a queer Senegalese-American journalist, started her podcast, Afroqueer, she did it to bring the stories of the LGBTQ+ community to light.

“It’s important everyone sees themselves represented. It gives us all a great sense of peace to know we exist, we matter, and we belong.”

- Selly Thiam

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Selly and her team use Google Search and Translate to discover and learn about African LGBTQ+ stories from across the continent...

...bringing to life episodes from countries like South Africa, Botswana and Somalia.

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The podcast explores themes around coming out, love, family and how people are working to shift representation for the community.

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With the help of Selly and the Afroqueer team, more LGBTQ+ African stories can be heard throughout the world.

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