Lobby groups want Kenya-US tra al halted over anti-gay bill

Contents:

• WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• IS KENYA ABOUT TO FOLLOW UGANDA WH STRICT ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN?
• KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
• GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA
• WHAT IS EVERYDAY GAY AND LBIAN LIFE LIKE KENYA?
• KENYA CENSORS ANOTHER GAY-THEMED FILM
• KILLG OF LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST PROMPTS OUTCRY OVER ANTI-GAY ATTACKS KENYA
• KENYA GAY SEX BAN UPHELD BY HIGH COURT NAIROBI DISAPPOTMENT FOR AI'S LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
• I AM SAMUEL IS A TENR LOOK AT A GAY KENYAN UPLE’S LIV AND LOVE
• KENYAN URT UPHOLDS LAW MAKG GAY SEX ILLEGAL
• KENYA GAY TRAVEL
• GAY RIGHTS KENYA: 'WHY OUR FIGHT ISN'T OVER'
• KENYA BANS GAY-THEMED MOVIE, SPARKG DEBATE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS
• GAY KENYANS SENSE THEY MAY BE ON THE BRK OF A HISTORIC LEGAL TRIUMPH
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• SEARCHG FOR LOVE WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME
• KENYA GAY FOUND 4 PEOPLE GEIA, KENTUCKY AND 6 OTHER STAT
• KENYA GAY
• LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL

WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

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. "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni 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. Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma 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 Kaluma tells me he wants their asylum to be revoked, and for them to leave a small, hidn church set up to offer fort and support to LGBTQ people central Nairobi, the female pastor says Mr Kaluma's bill is g "a lot of panic, anxiety, fear".

Although 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".

"Fay Watch oppos legislatn that penalis a person for havg sexual attractns or for how they intify, " she says an emailed rponse to the Slater addrsed Ain lawmakers, clerics and mpaigners at their fom Uganda's laki cy of Entebbe March, and later appeared a group photo wh Print Meveni at his official more than 20 years, Mrs Slater has lobbied ernments on what she lls "fay valu" and has ma her missn to mpaign agast children and young people beg given Comprehensive Sexualy Edutn (CSE), a curriculum-based sex tn programme champned by the Uned Natns and other c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy" I ntact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Ai, for ment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposn", as she refers to adds that the manual is only a guile, and each untry n tailor to su their Bakaroudis fends CSE, sayg provis "life-savg rmatn" to curb high rat of untend pregnanci, HIV, and sexually transmted diseas.

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

A member of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) seen reactg after Kenya's High Court led to uphold the Brish-era penal that crimalis gay sex (Photo: 24 May 2019)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. "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by 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.

IS KENYA ABOUT TO FOLLOW UGANDA WH STRICT ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN?

It fuels some kd of vlence that now people are planng but holdg back on, " she tells 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 sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy" I ntact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Ai, for ment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposn", as she refers to adds that the manual is only a guile, and each untry n tailor to su their Bakaroudis fends CSE, sayg provis "life-savg rmatn" to curb high rat of untend pregnanci, HIV, and sexually transmted 's LGBTQ muny has been wagg a long-nng mpaign to mand equal rightsAlthough Mr Kaluma attend the meetg Uganda -sponsored by FWI, he ni workg wh the group on his bill, which he says will propose a ban on teachg CSE sayg is part of the "LGBTQ agenda". ‘A hateful piece of legislatn’Peter Kaluma, a parliamentarian the natnal assembly behd the bill, told the Telegraph the LGBT muny was engrossed a “filthy perversn” fuelled by Wtern Kaluma, a legal scholar, said his proposal aimed to “prohib homosexualy and same sex marriage and related activi” and proscribe “activi that seek to advance, promote or fund homosexualy and unnatural sexual acts” bill was part of a “global ph back agast the LGBTQ movement even the USA and most Wtern European untri, ” he bill has provoked ep unease among the untry’s gay and lbian muny.

Police have arrted his iend and are pursug two others the Leteipa/Associated PrsNAIROBI, Kenya — A gay activist and fashn signer was murred and his body found stuffed si a metal box Kenya, the police said on Friday, another episo that raised qutns about dangers and discrimatn faced by gay people across the East Ain Chiloba’s body was found the box after was dropped by the si of the road om a movg vehicle wh no license plate Uas Gishu unty the untry’s wt.

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. 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". Image source, Getty ImagKenyan thori were wrong to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn, the untry's Supreme Court has at the same time strsed that gay sex remas judg led three-to-two that the untry's NGO board was wrong to stop the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC) om registerg Kenya's hight urt, the Supreme Court's lg nnot be their judgment, the judg led that " would be unnstutnal to lim the right to associate, through nial of registratn of an associatn, purely on the basis of the sexual orientatn of the applints".

KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED

Laws which were troduced unr Brish lonial le mean that is crimal to have sex that "is agast the orr of nature", which n rult up to 14 years May 2019, Kenya's high urt rejected an attempt to overturn the 's judgement ends a 10-year legal battle which began 2013 when Eric Gari, the former executive director of the NGLHRC, challenged the head of Kenya NGO Coordatn Board's refal to perm him to apply to register an NGO unr a name ntag the words gay or lbian. On the day of the judgement, Member of Parliament Gee Peter Kaluma filed an official notice that he tend to troduce a bill which would jail for life people nvicted of homosexualy or the promotn of Friday's Supreme Court lg arguably torpedo any attempts to legally harass openly gay people wh new laws, Mr Kaluma n still rally MPs to crease jail terms for gay is also illegal to have gay sex neighbourg Uganda, where Mlim lears ed Friday prayers to preach agast head of the untry's Mlims, Mufti Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje, lled on the thori to enact even tougher laws agast same-sex was speakg at the Old Kampala mosque the pal, Kampala, where hundreds had gathered for Friday prayers.

Earlier the week, the Uganda Mlim Supreme Council circulated a letter to all clerics unr s associatn gazettg Friday as the day to rry out peaceful protts agast homosexualy clerics were asked to prepare sermons nmng same-sex relatns and extend the same msage to the media and the event, the protts were only held the eastern cy of rights activist Frank Mugisha scribed the protts as dangero, sayg they uld crease s of vlence agast those who intify as has been a recent surge homophobic sentiment the week, Print Yoweri Meveni said Uganda would not embrace homosexualy and that the Wt should stop tryg to impose s views and "normalise" what he lled "viatns".

"I will ask them to take me to vote for that, to kick them out, kick LGBT people out of Kenya pletely, " he after Uganda enacted one of the most dranian anti-LGBT laws on Earth, Kenya uld be poised to follow su wh a siarly formulated bill that punish gay sex wh prison or even ath some s, acrdg to a draft of the law and two lawmakers backg parliament. Some regnal lawmakers ame the issue as an almost existential battle to save Ain valu and sovereignty, which they say have been battered by Wtern prsure to pulate on gay draft of Kenya's Fay Protectn Bill, seen by Rters, mirrors many aspects of the Ugandan law, which was signed by Print Yoweri Meveni at the end of May to the dismay of the LGBT muny, human rights mpaigners and Wtern sex is punishable by at least 10 years jail unr the proposed Kenyan law, while "aggravated homosexualy", which clus gay sex wh a mor or disabled person or when a termal disease is passed on, brgs the ath penalty.

GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA

"The Uned Stat  advanc efforts around the globe to protect LGBTQI+ persons om vlence  and abe, crimalizatn, discrimatn, and stigma, and to empower lol  LGBTQI+  movements and  persons, " the spokperson said rponse to qutns about this REIGNS AT NAIROBI PRIDEThe Kenyan bill would toughen up a lonial-era statute unr which gay sex was already illegal, though the olr, ls tailed law was rarely proposed law would signal the ath knell for Kenya's stat as a place of relative refuge for gay people East Ai as the only untry the regn to host refuge fleeg persecutn bee they are draft bill stipulat that no one should be granted asylum on grounds of persecutn lked to sexual orientatn. Anticipatn of the new legislatn, and the anti-gay rhetoric polics and the media om public figur such as Ali and Kaluma that has acpanied , is already stg a chill over the LGBT muny, acrdg to anizers of the Pri event Nairobi this Kacha, one of the anizers, said that unlike prev years the lotn was not disclosed advance out of fear that anti-gay activists would target the event.

WHAT IS EVERYDAY GAY AND LBIAN LIFE LIKE KENYA?

Activists argue that the laws crimalizg nsensual same-sex relatns between adults are breach of the nstutn bee they ny basic laws prcribe up to 14 years prison for people nvicted of homosexual backtracks on gay sex ath penalty amid global outcry"Kenya's High Court has relegated people same-sex relatnships Kenya to send-class cizenship, based on the absurd claim that the penal is not discrimatory, " Neela Ghoshal, senr LGBT rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said a statement released by the group on Friday.

KENYA CENSORS ANOTHER GAY-THEMED FILM

The High Court found that Article 36 of the Constutn grants “every person” the right to form an associatn “of any kd” regardls of their genr or sexual orientatn and that the Penal Co do not crimalise homosexualy as an inty, but rather certa sexual acts “agast the orr of nature”, which is not fed, nor do nta any provisn that lims the eedom of associatn of dividuals on the basis of their sexual orientatn.

KILLG OF LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST PROMPTS OUTCRY OVER ANTI-GAY ATTACKS KENYA

222) require licensg and thorizatn om the ernment Film Classifitn Board before d-visual ntent n be created or has been an pennt untry for 55 years, and s current nstutn is s 11th, the film board’s CEO, has argued that any film or broadst ntent that appears to “legalize, advote, normalize or glorify” gay sex ntradicts the law on homosexualy and is therefore unacceptable.

NAIROBI — Faced wh police shakedowns and abe, rejectn om relig nservativ and rampant discrimatn, Kenyan LGBT rights activists are challengg provisns of this former Brish lony’s Victorian-era penal that implicly outlaw gay a move that uld spawn pyt tactics across Ai and beyond, three Kenyan LGBT rights groups have petned a urt Nairobi to scrap those legal cls and grant LGBT Kenyans the same rights to privacy, equaly and digny as other Kenyans. 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.

KENYA GAY SEX BAN UPHELD BY HIGH COURT NAIROBI DISAPPOTMENT FOR AI'S LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

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. 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. Inpennt variabl clud age, tn level, e the past 30 days, ethnic group, and relign as well as the perceptn people were starg at them when they went to the health clic (“I feel like people are starg at me when I go to the health clic”), receipt of eful rmatn om public hospals, and qutns about self-inty (sexual inty: homosexual/bisexual/heterosexual; transgenr stat: y/no; and genr inty: man/woman).

Although our age eligibily was om 18–64 years, the olst participant was 34 years of 1Demographic characteristics of dividual terview and survey participants, MSM Kisumu, KenyaInterview n(%)n = 15Survey n(%)n = 51Genr Male15 (100)51 (100)Age (years) 18–203 (20)20 (39) 21–239 (60)13 (25) 24–263 (20)10 (20) 27–340 (0)8 (16)Tribe/Ethnic Group Luo15 (100)44 (86) Other0 (0)7 (14)Ine KES (past 30 days)‡ <1, 0003 (20)10 (20) 1, 001–5, 0003 (20)18 (35) 5, 001–10, 0006 (40)13 (25) >10, 0002 (13)10 (20)Maral Stat Sgle15 (100)49 (96) Not married but livg as married0 (0)1 (2) Separated/divorced0 (0)1 (2)Relign Catholic4 (27)16 (31) Prottant9 (60)25 (49) Mlim1 (7)10 (20) Other1 (7)0 (0)Edutn of rponnt Primary/votnal0 (0)5 (10) Sendary4 (27)33 (65) College/universy11 (73)13 (25)Sexual Inty Homosexual8 (53)21 (41) Bisexual7 (47)20 (39) Heterosexual†0 (0)9 (18)Health Servic at a Public HospalSurvey Of the 51 survey rponnts, 32/51 (62. “In 2018, India managed to annul Sectn 377, a Brish lonial-era law prohibg ‘unnatural acts, ’ orr to legalize nsensual gay sex, ” says Fergson, who pots out that ancient Indian lerature such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana have many referenc to LGBTQ+ hero cludg transgenr warrrs and two queens who ma love orr for one queen to get pregnant wh an heir for their kgdom.

I AM SAMUEL IS A TENR LOOK AT A GAY KENYAN UPLE’S LIV AND LOVE

The Fay Protectn Bill proposed by Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma seeks to crimalize homosexualy, same-sex marriag, and LGBTQ passed, the bill will crimalise the promotn, recment, and fundg of homosexualy and a letter addrsed to Uned Stat Tra Reprentative Ambassador Kathere Tai, who's currently Kenya for the STIP negotiatns, the lobby groups ll on the Bin admistratn to halt the negotiatns until Print William Ruto veto any anti-gay law. Interviewe me om several generatns; some talked about recent experienc, while others scribed the aftermath of the practic years after they had kds of activi have been nmned by doctors, psychologists and unsellors around the world, says the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), which lled them “effective and harmful” to mental untri – Brazil, Ecuador and Malta – have banned the practic, while Germany has banned them when applied to mors.

Joseph Ntombura said by llg gay rights a "non-issue, " Kenyatta showed rpect for Kenyan culture and Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, which advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the untry, said they were ncerned about the ments ma by Kenyatta, acrdg to a statement posted on Twter by Gabe Joselow, East Ai bure chief for Voice of Ameri.

KENYAN URT UPHOLDS LAW MAKG GAY SEX ILLEGAL

KENYA GAY TRAVEL

GAY RIGHTS KENYA: 'WHY OUR FIGHT ISN'T OVER'

KENYA BANS GAY-THEMED MOVIE, SPARKG DEBATE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS

GAY KENYANS SENSE THEY MAY BE ON THE BRK OF A HISTORIC LEGAL TRIUMPH

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

SEARCHG FOR LOVE WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME

KENYA GAY FOUND 4 PEOPLE GEIA, KENTUCKY AND 6 OTHER STAT

KENYA GAY

LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL