“Wele to Chechnya” Reveals the Killg of Gay People

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD
• DON’T CRIMALISE GAY PEOPLE
• CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed?

In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe.

Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy. Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.

UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY

For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". Although bat about sodomy laws durg the latter half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuri foced almost entirely on their crimalizatn of homosexual nduct, neteenth-century laws broadly nsted sodomy as “crim agast nature, mted wh mankd or wh beast” [3].

Durg the 1950s, McCarthyism rulted state- and natnwi wch hunts of male “homosexuals” which the acts of oral and anal sex between nsentg adult men were nflated wh child moltatn [11].

The appeals urt found that the Geia sodomy statute vlated Hardwick’s fundamental rights bee his homosexual activy was a “private and timate associatn that is beyond the reach of state regulatn by reason of the Nth Amendment and the Due Procs Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment” [20]. Wrg for the majory, Jtice Whe amed the issue as “whether the Feral Constutn nfers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage sodomy and hence validat the laws of many stat that still make such nduct illegal and have done so for a very long time” [21].

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

” Even though the Geia sodomy law crimalized the behavr of both heterosexuals and homosexuals, the Court’s majory fixated on the fact that the se before them volved a gay man.

Yet, this se, the urt announced that “ is obv to that neher of the formali would extend a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage acts of nsensual sodomy” [24]. The Court ground s reasong the fact that stat had had sodomy laws place sce the natn’s foundg, and, therefore, a right to homosexual sodomy uld not be “eply rooted” tradn or history [25]. Fally, Hardwick asserted that the law mt have a ratnal basis for s existence and that there is none for the Geia statute bis the public’s view that homosexualy is immoral and unacceptable.

Media ptn, Watch: Cheers and applse as Uganda pass anti-gay billPeople who intify as gay Uganda risk life prison after parliament passed a new bill to crack down on homosexual activi. Homosexual acts are already illegal Uganda but this bill troduc many new crimal well as makg merely intifyg as gay illegal for the first time, iends, fay and members of the muny would have a duty to report dividuals same-sex relatnships to the was passed wh wispread support Uganda's parliament on Tuday eveng. The bill's backers say they are tryg to protect children but Ms Byagaba said: "Whether you're heterosexual or homosexual, the ernment and parliament should troduce laws, or at least implement existg laws that protect all children - boys, girls om filement.

WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD

The fal versn has yet to be officially published but elements discsed parliament clu: A person who is nvicted of groomg or traffickg children for purpos of engagg them homosexual activi fac life prisonIndividuals or stutns which support or fund LGBT rights' activi or anisatns, or publish, broadst and distribute pro-gay media material and lerature, also face prosecutn and imprisonmentMedia groups, journalists and publishers face prosecutn and imprisonment for publishg, broadstg, distributn of any ntent that advot for gay rights or "promot homosexualy"Death penalty for what is scribed as "aggravated homosexualy", that is sexual abe of a child, a person wh disabily or vulnerable people, or s where a victim of homosexual asslt is fected wh a life-long illnsProperty owners also face risk of beg jailed if their premis are ed as a "brothel" for homosexual acts or any other sexual mori rights' activiA small group of Ugandan MPs on a mtee sctisg the bill disagreed wh s premise. They argue the offenc seeks to crimalise are already vered the untry's Penal Co 2014, Uganda's nstutnal urt nullified another act which had toughened laws agast the LGBT clud makg illegal to promote and fund LGBT groups and activi, as well as reeratg that homosexual acts should be punished by life imprisonment, and was wily nmned by Wtern urt led that the legislatn be revoked bee had been passed by parliament whout the required quom. Image source, Getty ImagThe High Court Barbados has stck out their laws that crimalised gay prev laws om 1992, while rarely voked, mand a life sentence for those found guilty of havg nsensual same-sex High Court Barbados has stck out their laws that crimalised gay prev laws, while rarely voked, mand a life sentence for those found guilty of havg nsensual same-sex relatns.

"In short, [the lg means] we n no longer prosecute persons unr the two sectns, " he said, addg that charg for offenc relatg to nsensual gay sex uld no longer be mataed.

"This "historic" lg was scribed as "a signifint step towards protectg the human rights and digny of LBGT people Barbados, " acrdg to Luisa Cabal, of the jot Uned Natns programme on HIV/ add that "will also strengthen the untry's HIV rponse by helpg to rce stigma and discrimatn faced by LGBT people and creasg the uptake of HIV ttg, treatment and preventn servic" least 66 untri the world still crimalise gay sex, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17 marks the day the World Health Organisatn (WHO) classified “homosexualy” as a mental disorr. As the world reach 30 years sce beg gay was no longer an ternatnally signated disease, a map by an ternatnal LGBT anizatn shows remas illegal to be gay 70 untri.

DON’T CRIMALISE GAY PEOPLE

The map by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn shows that only 65% of those livg UN untri around the world n now be, legally, nsensual same-sex relatnships. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) report on state-sponsored homophobia, released last month, six Uned Natns member stat imposed the ath penalty on nsensual same-sex sexual acts.

The Nairobi lg followed two petns filed 2016 by three Kenyan LGBT anisatns: the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, the Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya and Nyanza, Rift Valley and Wtern Kenya Network.

CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.

While we’ve seen a general trend toward more liberal views regardg homosexualy, there are likely to be hiccups along the way that affect how the different socenomic and cultural fluenc take shape natnally and across the world. Authori argued that reflected Sgapore society's view that homosexualy was not last week s parliament repealed the law, jt months after lear Lee Hsien Loong's surprise announcement they would scrap the ban bee of changg repeal of 377A turns the page on a dark chapter of Sgapore history that is rarely talked about the days, where gay men not only faced tense social stigma but were even actively targeted by Heng and the other men at Esplana Park that night were let off wh only a warng. This was later overturned an appeal, wh the judge notg that the way the men were ught and charged was "disquietg" many gay men, the raids sent a clear msage that their existence was owned upon.

That was part of the stct of beg gay back then, " said Mr Heng, who is 71 years the 2000s the raids had creased, and the issue of homosexualy - once a taboo topic - beme creasgly openly discsed.

Recent surveys show that, while there is still a signifint number who thk homosexualy is "wrong", there is also risg support for gay cy-state has veloped a thrivg LGBT scene, wh an creasg number of LGBT-iendly tablishments and pani promotg diversy polici. Later, they were taken to an upsle hilltop rtrant - a popular gay cisg spot the past, they were Tng told the BBC he cid to start givg LGBT history tours after realisg there was an "amnia", particularly among younger Sgaporeans. His tours have attracted a mix of both straight and gay oute of the lack of enforcement of 377A is that "there are people who don't really re bee they've never been subjected to , " he more attentn paid to 377A recent years, cludg legal attempts to overturn , "there's been greater tert and people are more cur now" about LGBT history, though "the rourc are still lackg", he source, BBC/Tsa WongImage ptn, Mr Tng's tours attract a mix of gay and straight attenWh 377A's repeal, the law is now officially a thg of the past.

The vote also saw parliamentarians voicg ncern about "ant homosexuals" and the erosn of relig eedoms, which LGBT groups turn have lled "unsubstantiated rhetoric and fearmongerg". Increasg scientific and medil tert “the homosexual” the early 20th century along wh the emergence of sexual liberatn movements globally the 1960s led to Atralia's earlit gay rights anisatns.

[B]rg about a suatn where homosexuals n enjoy good jobs and secury those jobs, equal treatment unr the law, and the right to serve our untry whout fear of exposure and ntempt. Inspired by the post-Stonewall march San Francis the very first gay rights march Atralia occurred Sydney on the 24th of June 1978 – what would eventually bee the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. An creased prence of out and proud gay people led to a rise gay hate crim the 1970s and 80s, the crim were often poorly handled or ignored by police at least partially bee gay sex remaed a crime.

However gay sex remaed a crime Tasmania until 1994 when the Feral Keatg ernment passed the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, which uniformly crimalised nsensual gay sex between adults throughout Atralia. MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Receivg photos of mutilated bodi wh the warng “you’re next” rattled gay rights activist Nika Toov but when he saw surveillance men outsi his home, he fled Rsia for threats via social media me om Pila - Rsian for “saw” - a homophobic group which has said was behd the fatal stabbg July of an LGBT+ activist whose name was among a dozen on their wily-circulated assassatn “blacklist”. Although the police did not treat the murr as a hate crime ially, they promised to vtigate whether Pila had anythg to do wh Grigoryeva’s ath after plats om lbian gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) rights - which tak s name om the “Saw” Amerin horror movi - is the latt threat to shake the LGBT+ muny Rsia, where homosexualy was emed a crimal offence until 1993 and classed as a mental illns until 1999.