Northern Cyps anti-gay law to be challenged | PkNews

Contents:

• NORTHERN CYPS VOT TO LEGALISE GAY SEX
• NORTHERN CYPS LIFTS BAN ON GAY SEX
• GAY RIGHTS: UPDATE TO HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS LAWS IN NORTH CYPS.
• BEG GAY AND LIVG NORTHERN CYPS
• NORTHERN CYPS ANTI-GAY LAW TO BE CHALLENGED
• GAY DATG CYPS

NORTHERN CYPS VOT TO LEGALISE GAY SEX

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NORTHERN CYPS LIFTS BAN ON GAY SEX

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UnequalAge of nsent for homosexual upl set at 18 vers 16 for heterosexual upl. Northern Cyps, the last jurisdictn Europe where gay sex between nsentg adults was illegal, has voted to remove the offence om s statute books. Turkish Cyprt puti passed an amendment on Monday repealg a lonial-era law that punished homosexual acts wh up to five years change still has to be endorsed by the breakaway republic's print, Derviş Eroğlu, who is expected to support the enacted, the new law will mean that no stat Europe, Atralasia or North Ameri crimalise homosexualy.

GAY RIGHTS: UPDATE TO HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS LAWS IN NORTH CYPS.

The ntrastg trend Ai, however, has been for new laws banng gay groups to e before lol parliaments; this month Nigeria began to enforce harsh legislatn agast same-sex change of heart by MPs Northern Cyps has been partially fluenced by neighbourg Turkey's enthiasm for revalisg negotiatns wh the EU on s future actn agast Northern Cyps's laws crimalisg homosexualy had also been lnched at the European urt of human rights Strasbourg by the London-based Human Digny legalised gay sex between nsentg adults after a lg by the human rights urt 1993, but the divisn between the island's Greek and Turkish republics meant many crimal laws hered om the era of Brish lonial occupatn – cludg the ban on homosexualy – remaed force the North.

Jonathan Cooper, the chief executive of the Human Digny Tst, said: "This is a historic day for gay people Europe and a major victory for human rights, equaly and the Human Digny Tst. Nowhere Europe now still crimalis gay people and we are proud to say that we have played a signifint role brgg this shameful chapter European history to an end.

"Laws agast private, nsentg homosexual acts between adults crimalise someone's very inty and have no place the morn world. "The pernic anti-gay laws, which protect no one and e ep distrs and harm to gay and lbian people, still exist 82 legal jurisdictns.

BEG GAY AND LIVG NORTHERN CYPS

"The tst's se had been supported by the Northern Cyprt lbian and gay anisatn Queer Cyps. The board rejected the curriculum that clud ntent about Harvey Milk, an acced pedophile and gay activist, later the eveng. Amanchwu, who is a ntributor to Turng Pot USA Fah and nsired “a risg voice exposg the racist iologi of abortn and cril race theory, ” told the Washgton Tim that his list was rponse to a liberal iology that giv “moral equivalency between blacks and gay rights.

Advot of the curriculum and the gay agenda are “tryg to say that the same stggle is tantamount to what the LGBTQ muny is gog through today as relat to discrimatn, ” Mr. Image source, AFPImage ptn, The ethnic Greek and Turkish muni rema divid CypsThe EU has weled the cisn of Turkish-ntrolled northern Cyps to crimalise homosexual relatns. It is believed to be the last European terrory where gay sex between nsentg adults was still illegal - a relic of Brish lonial Republic of Cyps had long sce changed the law.

NORTHERN CYPS ANTI-GAY LAW TO BE CHALLENGED

"As other [Brish] Commonwealth untri such as Nigeria and Uganda impose creasgly dranian measur to persecute LGBT people, I hope that people will learn om Cyps that the anti-gay legacy of Bra's lonial past should be scrapped and not strengthened, " she Turkish Cyprt parliament voted on Monday to scrap Sectn 171 of the crimal , which rri a punishment of five years for homosexual acts.

The news that this piece of homophobic legislatn had been fally overturned was weled by LGBT mpaigners all over the world.

GAY DATG CYPS

I always found odd that the Turkish Cyprts had this law place as, whether you are the htle and btle of the more populated ci or the ‘sleepy’ villag, I always found a reasonable gree of openns and tolerance to people who were known to be gay or bi-sexual. Ined I knew many men who, on the face of , were brimmg wh ttosterone terms of [tryg to] attract partners of the oppose sex and yet once some alhol had been nsumed they would disappear wh the known and ‘out’ gay the village for some sual sex.

However, there was another realy for many gay men and women North Cyps. Forced or ‘aggrsively arranged’ marriag beme the norm for Turkish Cyprt homosexuals who pulated to fay prsure and married a heterosexual due to wir social tolerance. Derya Dog, a new, outspoken MP and long-standg mpaigner of LGBT rights North Cyps, was quoted at the time as sayg: “We crimalized homosexualy but we also changed that whole sectn (of the ) to mornize laws protectg human rights.