Gay kuito, angola

Cuíto had a long history of violence starting with the African slave trade and tribal warfare. Later in the s the Portuguese used the town of Silva Porto as a training centre for training black Portuguese Army soldiers to send to Northern Portuguese Angola in order to fight the nationalist guerrillas, during the Portuguese Colonial War.

The Miss Angola beauty pageant, for example, relied heavily on the expertise of openly gay professionals such as hairdressers, make-up artists and fashion designers.