Last month, two Kenyan men wed in London under the United Kingdom’s civil union law, causing a controversy in their home country, where, like in much of Africa, male homosexuality is illegal. According to Kenyan blogger Haute Haiku, radio hosts fanned the flames (It’s good to know that Kenya, too, has its fair share of Glenn Becks), calling their marriage “unafrican, uncultured and sinful.”

In the controversy’s wake, a good friend of mine, who is spending the year in Mombasa, Kenya, has written a wonderful short piece about how a single trip to a karaoke bar taught him plenty about homosexuality in Kenya. Read an excerpt after the jump.