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• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• ON GAY RIGHTS, YOUNG AINS SHARE THE TOLERANCE OF THEIR ELRS
• ENGENRG GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS: THE EQUALY CLSE THE SOUTH AIN NSTUTN

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

Same-sex nduct is not illegal  Rwanda, but thori there round up and arbrarily taed people regard as socially unsirable, cludg over a dozen gay and transgenr people, sex workers, street children, and others the months before a planned June 2021 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetg. (Samantha Rers)The Unfulfilled Promise of LGBTQ Rights South AiThe untry has some of the most progrsive laws the world, but refuge fleeg homophobia elsewhere often fd a untry that is morally nservative, hostile, and profoundly ’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall TOWN, South Ai—On a recent foggy morng, Ndodana board a mib and traveled more than 20 to the Ivan Toms Centre for Men’s Health to llect his ee HIV meditn.

The gay-iendly clic li a predomantly whe neighborhood of Cape Town, wedged between a strip of rtrants, upsle hotels, and the V&A Wateront, a major tourist bimonthly trip is a long one and, on the surface, unnecsary: Mfuleni, the impoverished township where he rents a room, has s own HIV-treatment center. “You keep prayg that one day that door will open, ” he told me, speakg of the rejectn by his relig past May, he attend Kumbulani Pri, an annual event to memorate victims of homophobia that this year was takg place around the rner om his hoe. Other notable LGBTQ+ events clu the Pk Loerie Mardi Gras Knysna, held May; Durban Pri, held June; the Mr Gay South Ai event, held November; and the Out Ai Film Ftival, which occurs both Johannburg and Cape Town, ually September or October.

Jo here and take actn to ensure that everyone gets to have the right to too many Ain untri ntue to monize and crimalise homosexualy to this the world ntu to try and be more acceptg of people om all walks of life, there are still 69 untri where same-sex relatnships are still nsired to be crime. Succeedg this, 1982 Nkoli joed the Gay and Lbian Associatn of South Ai (GASA) as one of the few black members of the anisatn efforts of tergratg his the a Nkoli and fellow Black members endured a seri of racial microaggrsns as part GASA, he went on to start a branch of GASA known as the Saturday Group for people who were exclud by the ma prison 1984 for treason alongsi other anti-apartheid activists  the Delmas Trial, the anisatn cled to support him, statg that the charg were not “gay matters” his release, Nkoli tablished the Gay and Lbian Organisatn of Wswatersrand (GLOW) alongsi fellow LGBTQ+ activist Beverly Dsie. From a very young age, UK-based Cameroonian blogger and LGBTQ+ activist Bandy Kiki, knew that she was Kiki first moved to the UK, she feared for her life whenever she would attend gathergs wh members of the LGBTQ+ muny bee her native untry homosexualy is a crimal offence which n be punishable by maximum of five years Febary 2021 at least 24 people have been arrted and forced to unrgo an anal eximatn and HIV tt  Cameroon.

ON GAY RIGHTS, YOUNG AINS SHARE THE TOLERANCE OF THEIR ELRS

She is a spokperson for Rabow Equaly Hub, which fights for the rights of queer people the April 2021 she publicly stood up for two transgenr women om her home untry who were arrted at a rtrant for wearg women’s clothg and charged for “attempted homosexualy. In 2017, he started A Nasty Boy magaze, Nigeria’s first publitn that was dited solely to the LGBTQ+ members wh the purpose of celebratg and regnisg their liv and experienc the wt Ain he was fally startg to live his tth universy, Akon was met wh a harsh realy after his iend outed him to a mp he scribed as wagg a “war agast homosexualy. Popular thor and gay rights Kenyan activist Byanvanga Waaa first ma his mark when he publilly me out his article entled “I am a homosexual, Mum” later said the article was a missg chapter om his 2011 tobgraphy “One Day I Will Wre About This Place, ” spired by the monizatn of homosexualy on the Ain ntent.

”This g out piece by Waaa not only created nversatns about homosexualy his native untry of Kenya where homosexualy still remas illegal, but lead him to be clud on the TIME 100 as one of the most fluencial people the world. In 2010, Mugisha was among the people who succsfully took Ugandan newspaper, Rollg Stone, to urt after they published nam, pictur, home and work addrs of people who were gay for them to be 2013, Mugisha opposed the crimalisatn of homosexualy Uganda. In an say for Global Cizen, Donkor scrib that he knew he was gay om a young age and tried his bt to supprs was only at universy where he started to accept himself for what he tly was and began to be cur about anizatns that help people like him, and to his shock there were no LGBTQ+ anizatns fuelled him to start his own anizatn orr to be a bean of light for people who feel like him.

“Wtern untri are puttg prsure on pennt untri by attackg the fay foundatn, promotg the ugly phenomenon of homosexualy, the spread of extremism and terrorism, and the e of human rights as a tool, for which the velopment of cultural teractns and cultural operatn between Iran and Uganda will be very effective nontg the plots of the enemi of the two natns, ” said Raisi. 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.

ENGENRG GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS: THE EQUALY CLSE THE SOUTH AIN NSTUTN

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.

KAMPALA, March 21 (Rters) - Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuday makg a crime to intify as LGBTQ, handg thori broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimatn and mob than 30 Ain untri, cludg Uganda, already ban same-sex relatns. Supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain addn to same-sex terurse, the law bans promotg and abettg homosexualy as well as nspiracy to engage homosexualy. [1/4]Bugiri Municipaly Member of Parliament Asuman Basalirwa, addrs the hoe as he participat the bate of the Anti-Homosexualy bill, which propos tough new penalti for same-sex relatns durg a stg at the Parliament buildgs Kampala, Uganda March 21, 2023....

Meveni has not mented on the current proposal but he has long opposed LGBTQ rights and signed an anti-LGBTQ law 2013 that Wtern untri nmned before a domtic urt stck down on procral recent weeks, Uganda thori have cracked down on LGBTQ people after relig lears and policians alleged stunts were beg reced to homosexualy month, thori arrted a sendary school teacher the eastern district of Jja over accatns of "groomg of young girls to unnatural sex practic" was subsequently charged wh gross cency and is prison awag police said on Monday they had arrted six people acced of nng a work that was "actively volved the groomg of young boys to acts of sodomy". Current statSce Dec 14, 2007AmbiguoSectn 14 of the Sexual Offenc Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 2 of 1988, set the age of nsent for gay and lbian sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex. UnequalEven though gay male sex was illegal for all ag, sectn 14 of the Immoraly Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 57 of 1969, set the age of nsent for gay male sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex.

What has e to be unrstood as homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia “is first and foremost a reactn agast space beg claimed by a new tegory of people mandg their rights” (Gevisser 2018) did not necsarily exist as named Ain societi, but varied practic and people of diverse sexuali and genrs did. For other reasons cludg the need for prervg Ain culture, claims that homosexualy is a wtern import, and panics around sexualy, sexual excs, and promiscuy, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Ai are perceived as un-Ain (Nyanzi 2013) is a tenncy to view and pat Ai wh a sgular bsh as beg herently homophobic and nservative. Notwhstandg the differenc, “prevailg antihomosexual and gay rights disurs are tegrated to existg social narrativ of lonialism, enomic pennce, and the nduct of a morn mocratic state” (McKay and Angotti 2016, 415) impact of lonialism has not only affected sexualy and genr inty but also how human rights are perceived (Baisley 2015).

This ntuum starts om what many Ain untri have monstrated as total margalizatn which clus bans on any activi related to LGBT issu and people (an example here would be Uganda’s famo Anti-Homosexualy Bill bated 2014 and the Same-Sex Prohibn Bill proposed 2011 troduced by Nigerian parliamentarians) Both the impose bans on any public display of same-sex affectn and a lengthy jail term. Homosexualy is still nsired illegal many Ain untri cludg Algeria, Botswana, Bundi, Comoros, Egypt, Errea, Ethpia, Gambia, Ghana, Guea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mrania, Mri, Moroc, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (Amnty Internatnal UK 2018). While homosexualy is now nsired legal the untri, there are still some challeng facg LGBT third stage as prented by Kretz (2013) is crimalizatn, whereby penal s are revised as the recent s Mozambique, Angola, and much earlier South Ai.

Currently, the untri homosexualy is legal: Angola, Ben, Burka Faso, Cape Ver, Central Ain Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guea, Gabon, Guea-Biss, Lotho, Madagasr, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Prcipe, Seychell, and South Ai (Amnty Internatnal UK 2018)’s (2013) fourth stage is difitn. Anti-homosexual disurs durg such transns are opportunistic and roe many emotns among voters as mpaigners prey on everyone’s Uganda there was speculatn that the bate around the Anti-Homosexualy Bill was ed as a ploy to discred a printial ndidate who was pro-gay rights (McKay and Angotti 2016).

” Relig sexual nversn of gay people to beg straight is nsired a necsary reparative method by many transnatnal nature of anti-LGBT movements non-Arab worlds is related to Christian nservative groups (Ibrahim 2015).