Contents:
- ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
- WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
Refuge and asylum seekers who intify as LGBTQ would be expelled om Kenya unr a proposed anti-homosexualy law. The Fay Protectn Bill, 2023, that would crimalize homosexualy wh a life sentence, is currently unr nsiratn by a parliamentary mtee. The lawmaker not that homosexualy, same-sex marriag and other so-lled unnatural sexual acts go agast “public moraly” that threaten the fay un unr Article 45 of Kenya’s nstutn, which regniz marriage as between people of the oppose sex.
This is spe rampant s of homophobia the untry and some LGBTQ refuge plag about discrimatn, vlent attacks and stctn of their property by other refuge and rints. Refugee Agency Kenya March 2021 issued a statement rponse to homophobic attacks on LGBTQ refuge Kenyan mps by assurg s mment to their safety.
WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
The move to curb homosexualy Kenya through the new law barely three months after more than 300 LGBTQ refuge at Kakuma mp lnched an onle signature llectn iative to petn the thori to stop discrimatn, torture and mistreatment. This provisn is rponse to the Kenyan Supreme Court’s ntroversial lg Febary that allowed the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn to register a non-ernmental anizatn.
KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
In 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 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" I met Mr Kaluma - a member of veteran Kenyan opposn polician Raila Odga's Orange Democratic Movement - he was stg behd his sk at his office the pal Nairobi, proof-readg and makg rrectns to a bill that he tends to table parliament soon. "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 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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
"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 paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma 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 Kaluma tells me he wants their asylum to be revoked, and for them to leave a small, hidn church set up to offer fort and support to LGBTQ people central Nairobi, the female pastor says Mr Kaluma's bill is g "a lot of panic, anxiety, fear".