The Art of Sin
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The first gay man to publicly come out in Sudan was the artist Ahmed Umar, now based in Norway. A lively discussion on social media revealed as much curiosity as uproar from a culture that initially condemned homosexuality. Ibrahim Mursal, who has a similar background, was fascinated: “To find someone close to my age who also grew up in Khartoum, and who had moved in the same circles but was homosexual, was like discovering an alien.”