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Contents:

• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT
• EGYPT JAILS EIGHT MEN AFTER ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ CEREMONY ON NILE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• FREEDOM EGYPT--WHAT MEANS FOR GAYS
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

THE TTH ABOUT BEG GAY ANCIENT EGYPT

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny.

Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

EGYPT JAILS EIGHT MEN AFTER ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ CEREMONY ON NILE

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. "The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

The journalist grew up Egypt for almost a , and he tells PkNews he’s “pafully aware” of the “pervasive homophobia and transphobia that permeate society” the untry. In Egyptian pop culture, particularly on social media, he says there is rhetoric on a daily basis, equatg homosexualy to “terrorism” or that “the people should be killed”.

In spe of the overwhelmg assumptn  the Arab world, that homosexualy never existed before Sodom and Gomorrah, historil and lerary evince suggts otherwise. Yet, has been found that Ancient Egyptian society was faiar wh homosexualy as a cultural norm and practice, manifted var artifacts and historil evince.

Rather, specifilly refers to homosexual (lbian) terurse the temple, which at the time served as the se of popular celebratns and ruals of fertily, which sexual acts would unfold between men and women, particular the temple prostut. A number of Egyptologists and archaeologists believe them to be the first homosexual uple rerd history, th ncludg that the culture at the time did not preclu homosexual relatns. While evince pots to the fact that Ancient Egyptian society was largely acceptg of male homosexualy, nohels, the receptive partner was viewed as ferr, while the active partner was celebrated and praised for his virily.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

Wh the passg of time and the chang iology and beliefs, as traced the artifacts om each era, the disda for the receptive partner a homosexual relatnship grew. Mohamed Gamal supports this theory, statg: “In ntemporary Egyptian society, certa youth circl, particularly those the tourism and hospaly dtri, is not shameful to adm havg engaged homosexual relatns, so long as you are the active partner.

He trac the chang iology to the fact that Egypt was the center of a vast empire, thereby g to ntact wh a number of different civilizatns and cultur, which “perhaps disdaed homosexualy, and therefore fluenced Egyptian culture that regard.

In many s, history or archaeology lecturers have nsired such reprentatns of homosexualy as offensive to their nceptns of history, thereby attemptg to erase large swath of antiquy.

FREEDOM EGYPT--WHAT MEANS FOR GAYS

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. N/A Age of Consent is unequal/applible practice, same-genr sexual behavr is punished by ernmental offils, meang that both age and nsent are irrelevant to the illegaly of homosexualy Egypt. Eight men acced of attendg a marriage-like ceremony on the Nile have been jailed for three years the latt of a seri of mov agast Egypt’s gay muny.

Dcribed onle as Egypt’s “first gay marriage”, the scene showed the pair embracg, exchangg rgs and celebratg wh their iends on a small boat – footage that outraged nservative Egypt, promptg a media backlash when appeared on YouTube judgment was passed after the eight men were subjected to anal tts that state doctors said proved the men were not gay. In recent weeks, many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Egyptians have sled back their e of datg apps such as Grdr, fearg that the police may be g them to entrap gay men. Activists speculate that the recent crease state prsure on Egypt’s gay muny is lked to the ernment’s sire to prove their socially nservative crentials, after members of the Mlim Brotherhood, the group oted by Egypt’s current regime last summer, ed the footage to claim s overthrow has led to the stctn of Egyptian valu.

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy. On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world. In 2012, a newly adopted provisnal nstutn ma Somalia's terpretatn of Sharia law "the supreme law of the untry, " makg homosexualy a crime that n be punished by floggg or the ath penalty.

The untry's Penal Co stat that "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" — which n mean homosexualy, even though 's not explicly mentned — is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment om two years to life. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn.

The current print, Abl Fatah al-Sisi, may be g homophobia and his supprsn of the LGBT muny as a distractn om Egypt’s flounrg enomy and the ernment’s pervasive human rights ab. Khaled El-Rouayheb, an amic at Harvard Universy, explas that though sodomy was emed a major s by Mlim urts of law, other homosexual acts such as passnate kissg, fondlg or lbian sex were not. A survey by Pew Rearch Centre 2013 found that most people the regn believe homosexualy should be rejected: 97% Jordan, 95% Egypt and 80% Lebanon.