{"id":175967,"date":"2024-07-05T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-presidents-daughter-brenda-reveals-lesbian-status\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:34:38","slug":"cameroons-presidents-daughter-brenda-reveals-lesbian-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-presidents-daughter-brenda-reveals-lesbian-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s President&#8217;s Daughter, Brenda, Reveals Lesbian Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">President Paul Biya, one of Africa&#8217;s longest-serving leaders, has been vocal against gay rights, intensifying the impact of his daughter&#8217;s public display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Brenda, daughter of Cameroon President Paul Biya, has revealed she is in a same-sex relationship with a Brazilian model, Layyons Valen\u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This revelation is particularly striking given Cameroon&#8217;s strict law criminalising same-sex relationships with penalties of up to five years in prison and significant fines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PR_Paul_BIYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Paul Biya<\/a><\/strong>, one of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Biya, one of Africa&#8217;s longest-serving leaders, has been vocal against gay rights, intensifying the impact of his daughter&#8217;s public display. Brenda, daughter of Cameroon President Paul Biya, has revealed she is in a same-sex relationship with a Brazilian model, Layyons Valen\u00e7a. This revelation is particularly striking given Cameroon&#8217;s strict law criminalising same-sex relationships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,27271,377,4331,9803,3615,257,7527,14326,254,8912],"class_list":["post-175967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brenda","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-daughter","tag-lesbian","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-status"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}