Over the weekend, Zimbabwe police arrested two members of the country's only gay rights group, GALZ. Though initially described as a "sting in which police were looking for pornography and drugs," the real reason, according to Mail & Guardian, is much more troubling.

Zimbabwe police have arrested two members of a gay organisation after they posted a letter in their office from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lewis Brown criticising the Zimbabwean president's opposition to homosexuality, their lawyer said on Monday...Police said the letter, mounted on an office wall, 'undermined the authority of the president,' an offence under sweeping security laws carrying a penalty of a fine or brief imprisonment.

Former San Francisco Mayor Brown's letter commended GALZ "as a champion of gay rights." Although arrests of homosexuals in Zimbabwe are reportedly "rare," President Robert Mugabe has gone on record describing the African country's many LGBT citizens as "lower than dogs and pigs."

(via Towleroad)