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• ZIMBABWE COURT SENTENC GAY COUPLE TO ONE YEAR HOE ARRT, DEATH PENALTY IF ONE DON’T GET PREGNANT
• GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
• ZIMBABWE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS NEWS TOPICS

ZIMBABWE COURT SENTENC GAY COUPLE TO ONE YEAR HOE ARRT, DEATH PENALTY IF ONE DON’T GET PREGNANT

To promote, reprent and protect the rights and terts of lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr and tersex people through. Source: Zimbabwe no safe haven for Homosexuals – NewsDay Zimbabwe November 21, 2019. Ten percent of Zimbabwe’s populatn are timated to be gay or lbian – they are simply born like this.

However, only few dare to disclose their sexual orientatn as homosexualy is largely rejected by the Zimbabwean society and nsired a taboo.

GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

Acrdg to popular belief, however, homosexualy is a crime. The natnal media exacerbat this attu Zimbabwe wh homophobic statements by ernment lears ntributg to a misrmed, highly discrimatory soc-polil environment.

It leav the sexual mori a quandary, however, bee is silent on whether or not gay or lbian love affairs are legal.

ZIMBABWE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS NEWS TOPICS

The marriage bill that has brought up the ncept of civil partnerships has been precise fg as a relatnship between a man and a woman term on s own beg terpreted ternatnally to mean people same sex relatnships has ed the muny and bet to want to remove notg that bee has a gay ternatnal terpretatn th do not uphold the untri moral standards. There’s this one day I will never fet, I was the Harare Garns Park wh a woman I was datg, and three men approached and urated on llg Ngochani (a rogatory name given to gays/lbians Zimbabwe).

The police said they uld not do anythg mentng that my story was a b plited to open up a docket for gays/lbians here Zimbabwe” she add. Homosexual persons often experience vlence and margalisatn due to their sexual orientatn. Acrdg to ZimRights, a human rights group, there were approximately 760 reports of attacks on homosexual universy stunts 2018.

Chterfield Samba leads the Gays and Lbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a civil-society anisatn. He says that “spected gay stunts are beg tracked down by their anti-gay lleagu clubs, bars and even their hom. Zimbabwe is one of the non-acceptg untri the world for gay, lbian and transgenr people.