In Kenya, where 90 percent of rints oppose the acceptance of gay rights, gay acts are punishable by 14 years prison. But for one polil party, that is not nearly enough. While gay people this year were formally granted the right to form polil and welfare groups, the Republin Liberty Party wants gay Kenyans imprisoned for life and gay foreigners stoned to ath. Activists om the LGBT muny dismiss the party's bill as irrelevant, but adm some are worried.
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- WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL
- KENYA SAFE HAVENS AT RISK WH DRANIAN ANTI-GAY BILL
- NIGERIAN POLICE ARRT MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AT GAY WEDDG
- KENYAN POLIL PARTY PH ANTI-GAY BILL DPE SOME GAS FOR LGBT COMMUNY
WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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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.
LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL
"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.
"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of...
KENYA SAFE HAVENS AT RISK WH DRANIAN ANTI-GAY BILL
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".
NIGERIAN POLICE ARRT MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AT GAY WEDDG
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".
KENYAN POLIL PARTY PH ANTI-GAY BILL DPE SOME GAS FOR LGBT COMMUNY
"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 's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai.