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Contents:
- ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY
- ALL POSTS TAGGED "ETHPIAN GAY"
- ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
- ISRAELI, ETHPIAN AND GAY
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY
Ethpian church groups are angry a US-based gay tourist operator plans to vis relig s. * ethiopian gay library *
A ld tile floor and threadbare ts have never seemed so the gigglg, affectnate men acted this way – unabashedly, stereotypilly gay – on the streets of Ethpia's pal, they uld be expelled, beaten up, fired, disowned, or jailed. Unlike Mrania, Sudan, and Northern Nigeria, Ethpia don't mandate the ath penalty for same-sex sexual acts, but thanks to dranian laws that forbid activism while allowg Wtern evangelils to promote homophobia, Ethpia is on track to jo their many untri, 's gettg better for the LGBT muny.
Ketebirhan Admasu, the Ethpian Mister of Health, would only tell Newsweek that homosexualy is unlikely to be crimalized " the near future, " although any person "n accs any type of servic regardls of their sexual orientatn. State Department "livers this msage" is by pyg and pastg the same two paragraphs year after year s Ethpian Human Rights Report, which briefly not "some reports of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals" while acknowledgg that "reportg was limed due to fear of retributn, discrimatn, or stigmatizatn.
"Lears of Ethpian Mlims, heads of the Orthodox, Prottant and Catholic church, ernment officials, members of the Ethpian Parliament, lears of polil parti, and youth anizatns routely put their differenc asi to attend nferenc on the "gay problem" – one last year, entled "Homosexualy and Its Associated Social Disastro Consequenc, " was held the Ain Unn headquarters Addis Ababa.
ALL POSTS TAGGED "ETHPIAN GAY"
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"Ethpians do not need their inty to be dictated for them om outsi no matter how wealthy or powerful the forc applyg the prsure, " Abune Plos, the former head of the Ethpian Orthodox Church, told nference goers last, while Ethpia prohibs foreign LGBT-related activism, wel ternatnal relig groups that preach homophobia.
In May 2013, Uned for Life Ethpia hosted a workshop durg which police told ernment officials, relig lears and health profsnals that "homosexual fay members and neighbors" were likely to sexually abe children.
ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
LGBT Rights Ethpia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * ethiopian gay library *
A reprentative om the Ethpian Inter-Relig Council Agast Homosexualy announced that the uncil was makg "promisg" progrs nvcg the ernment to troduce the ath penalty to punish "homosexual acts.
ISRAELI, ETHPIAN AND GAY
Spurred by zealo Amerin missnari, Ethpia has clared war on gay men * ethiopian gay library *
Still, the party-goers who were outed by the unrver meramen had to go to hidg, pecially after newspaper articl alleged that homosexualy was a ntag disease and the moral equivalent of child rape.
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
A man named Solomon Negsie posted a ment wonrg "what I n do as an Engeer to eradite the people (I mean gays and lbians) om Ethpia or generally om the face of earth next to prayg to God to give me the wisdom to produce a mache or vis that will kill or make them straight (like normal people! Durg a vis to the Holy Try Church, tour gui and longtime teacher Gete Thome said the church had relaxed s stance on ntraceptn but that LGBT rights were "unthkable" – even discsn was "highly nmned, " sce gay people would "brg doom to the whole earth.
Youth lear Hezkias Tale, 24, champned his generatn's "openns" at November's Internatnal Fay Planng Conference Addis but said he didn't want to talk or even thk about homosexualy, and claimed that his peers natnwi felt the same. Selamaw Tsegaye, a 25-year-old graduate stunt at Addis Ababa Universy rearchg homosexualy Ethpia, said that her human rights classmat "thk homosexuals are ls of a human and they serve to die; some even say very proudly if they meet one gay man they would kill that person.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
Ethpian relig lears were enraged when they learned that Ain Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), a ntental gay rights lobby group, planned to discs LGBT-related issu, and quickly lnched a text-msagg mpaign that led to wispread protts and a meetg wh Mistry of Health officials.
-based NGOs foced on HIV preventn and the founr of Rabow Ethpia, the only LGBT anizatn the untry – vertly distributed ndoms and safe sex rmatn to gay men – he was ved to a prenference, and his photo appeared the prs. C., where, he believ, the Ethpian ernment is still monorg regularly updat Rabow Ethpia's webse and Facebook group and says his goal is to "spread news of what 's really like to be gay Ethpia" – but 's hard to get U. Mercy is an "ambiguo character, " says Happy, who morat two popular gay Facebook groups: Ethpia Gay Library, which tracks media verage, and Zega Matters, a fom on which more than 700 people discs LGBT issu.