Myo M Htun, who is biddg to be elected as Myanmar's first openly gay lawmaker next month, knows what discrimatn feels like a untry where same-sex relatns n be punished wh 10 years jail.
Contents:
- BEG GAY A COUP: THE PLIGHT OF MYANMAR’S LGBTIQ COMMUNY
- GAY PEOPLE MYANMAR HAVE ADOPTED A SECRET LANGUAGE
- MYANMAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NDIDATE KDL HOP FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS
- GAY PEOPLE IN MYANMAR CAN'T LIVE OPENLY. HERE'S WHY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
BEG GAY A COUP: THE PLIGHT OF MYANMAR’S LGBTIQ COMMUNY
LGBT Rights Myanmar: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * myanmar lgbt history *
A stunt lear durg the 1988 mocracy movement Myanmar before beg exiled to Thailand for 24 years, Aung Myo M was one of the first openly gay men among the revolutnari. But wh homosexualy still crimalised, a ary-drafted nstutn place ready to stifle reform on that ont, not to mentn gross human rights vlatns ntug to impact muni across the untry, there remas a long way to go to cement civil liberti for Myanmar’s LGBT muny.
GAY PEOPLE MYANMAR HAVE ADOPTED A SECRET LANGUAGE
Meanwhile, December 2019, Myanmar’s nttant for the Miss Universe pageant, Swe Z Htet, me out as gay jt days before the ntt. However, wh an electn earmarked for November, Aung Myo M adms that there is “a long way still to go” before there is equaly between heterosexuals and homosexuals the ey of society and the law.
MYANMAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NDIDATE KDL HOP FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS
Dpe Aung San Suu Kyi once llg for the crimalisatn of homosexualy 2013, there has been ltle substantive progrs on this ont unr her Natnal League for Democracy party sce they swept to power 2015.
To crimalise homosexualy Myanmar a 75% return would be need parliament – a seemgly impossible feat due to the fact 25% of the chamber’s seats are rerved for members of the stnchly nservative ary unr the 2008 nstutn.
GAY PEOPLE IN MYANMAR CAN'T LIVE OPENLY. HERE'S WHY
“The attu wh the law enforcement hasn’t changed much – and homosexualy still remas illegal through Penal Co 377, ” said Aung Myo M. Homosexualy⚢✖ Male illegal, female uncertaGay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnnN/ADiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
Homosexual activy Myanmar is male illegal, female illegal, female uncerta Myanmar crimaliz same-sex sexual activy unr Penal Co 1860, Sectn 377.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Executive SummaryThis study shows that many LGBTIQ persons are subject to vlatns of human rights set forth Universal Declaratn of Human Rights – maly “eedom om discrimatns”, “eedom om torture and gradg treatments”, “right to regnn as a person before the law”, “right to equaly before the law”, “eedom om arbrary arrt and exile”, “right to marriage and fay”, “eedom of belief and relign”, “right to sirable work”, “right to tn” and “right to participate the cultural life of the muny”.Dpe domtic legal ameworks enacted to implement ternatnal human rights nventns such as CEDAW and CRC, many LGBTIQ persons Myanmar also do not enjoy the rights enshred those nventns cludg those mentned unr other ternatnal human rights law such as ICCPR and ICESCR.Homophobia and transphobia are eply rooted and are often followed by a range of physil, emotnal, sexual vlence and enomic ab agast LGBTIQ youths.