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.
WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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.
KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Refugee Agency Kenya March 2021 issued a statement rponse to homophobic attacks on LGBTQ refuge Kenyan mps by assurg s mment to their safety. 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.
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.