Kenya Bans 'Andi Mack' Over Gay Character Crackdown on LGBT Content - Variety

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• KENYA FILM BOARD BANS GAY DOCUMENTARY, LLG "AN AFONT"
• KENYA BANS ‘ANDI MACK’ OVER GAY CHARACTER, CRACKDOWN ON LGBT CONTENT
• KENYA BANS GAY-THEMED MOVIE, SPARKG DEBATE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS
• KENYA'S HIGH URT UNANIMOLY UPHOLDS BAN ON GAY SEX
• KENYA GAY SEX BAN UPHELD BY HIGH COURT NAIROBI DISAPPOTMENT FOR AI'S LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

KENYA FILM BOARD BANS GAY DOCUMENTARY, LLG "AN AFONT"

24 story rrects paragraph 9 to remove reference to Rafiki beg nomated for an Osr)Kenya has banned a documentary about a gay Kenyan man's stggle to be accepted by his fay and untry, sayg was blasphemo and an afont to the Kenya Film Classifitn Board (KFCB) announced a prohibn on the exhibn, distributn, posssn or broadst of "I am Samuel, " on Thursday. "We will try and appeal but I am really disappoted bee I was lookg forward to engagg wh fellow Kenyans" on LGBTQ issu, he 's team followed Samuel - a relig, optimistic gay man, as he navigated his sexualy and his relatnships a untry where homosexualy is outlawed.

When his father disvers that he is gay, he is disowned and grows worried that his fay might have paid people to "teach him a lson.

It was also an afont to the nstutn, which difi marriage as heterosexual, the statement cisn three years after KFCB banned "Rafiki, " a film about two women fallg love, sayg that promoted was fictn, whereas "I am Samuel" is a documentary - a distctn the team had hoped would enable s release unr prs eedoms but so far has a lonial-era law, gay sex Kenya is punishable by 14 years prison. If there is any ntent that normaliz, glorifi same-sex relatnships, our posn Kenya has always been to rtrict and not to broadst, exhib or distribute that kd of ntent wh the borrs of the untry, " he said an terview wh Spice ntued by sayg that agreements reached outsi of Kenya have limed the amount of ntent that n be viewed the prev years, he claimed, they had outlawed a number of Kenyan-ma films wh LGBTQ+ year ago, the KFCB forba the 52-mute film I am Samuel due to s homosexualy-related Board noted that "rtricted" this suatn meant that was illegal to show, distribute, own, or transm the movie si the Republic of Kenya. In this photo taken Thursday, June 11, 2020, Ugandan gay refugee Mart Okello pos for...

KENYA BANS ‘ANDI MACK’ OVER GAY CHARACTER, CRACKDOWN ON LGBT CONTENT

Kenya has banned all movi ntag LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer) ntent. Apparently, some films have already been barred om broadst due to what Wambua scrib as “explic portrayal of homosexualy-related scen.

He referred to the Netflix streamg se sayg that talks were unrway wh the US-based pany to ensure that future accs to homosexual ntent was rtricted. Kenyan thori have banned the Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” bee of the program’s upg gay storyle, part of an ongog crackdown the Ain untry on LGBT ntent.

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

The board announced the ban Monday, jt days after was revealed that the show’s send season would feature a key character realizg he’s gay. The post add: “Gay Content Will Not Air Kenya…PERIOD! Njeri Gate, the executive director of Kenya’s Natnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn, said Mutua’s cisn was disappotg and an overreach of thory.

” Homosexualy is a crimal offense Kenya. NAIROBI, Kenya— The Kenya Film Classifitn Board recently banned the documentary film “I am Samuel” about a relig gay man’s stggle for acceptance om his fay and untry, sparkg bate on the rights of the LGBTQ muny as well as terpretatns of the Bible on same-sex relatnships.

The ma difference is that Samuel, our ma character, had to reckon wh homophobia and vlence. Gay sex is treated as a crime Kenyan law, punishable by up to 14 years prison a penal datg to many stanc, those opposed to LGBTQ rights strs that Kenya is a Christian natn and that such practic have no place there. She heard about a gay man who was an alholic.

KENYA'S HIGH URT UNANIMOLY UPHOLDS BAN ON GAY SEX

John 3:16 tells that God loved the whole world and gave J for all of , the gays clud. The suatn is worse for the gays and lbians, and we try our bt to help them live quietly their muni.

”Kenya’s laws about media and homosexualyA lonial-era law, Article 165 of Kenya’s penal outlaws homosexualy, while provisns the Films and Stage Plays Act (Cap. 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. In an opn piece on the HWR webse, Neela Goshal, associate director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights Program, said: On September 23, Kenya’s Film Censorship Board (KFCB) slapped a ban on “I Am Samuel, ” claimg the film ntraven Kenyan valu.

Meanwhile, Nairobi lawyer Masngya Muema has argued that Kenya’s nstutn passed 2010 overris the lonial-era prohibn of homosexualy. “The sectns quoted by the (film board) CEO outlaw btialy and not homosexualy, ” Muema said.

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

In that document every cizen is allowed to exercise their full eedoms, homosexualy clud. ” Dpe differg terpretatns of the nstutn, urts Kenya upheld the crimalizatn of homosexualy 2019 after LGBTQ groups filed a petn 2016.