NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 22 - The Lbian and Gay Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny n now go ahead and register their associatn as a rights group. - Kenya breakg news | Kenya news today |
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KENYA TO LE ON GAY RIGHTS AS AIN NEIGHBOURS LOOK ON
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * gay society of kenya *
Lbian, gay, bisexual and queer persons Kenya and across the world have often been on the receivg end of vlence. The laws create a misguid perceptn society that lbian, gay, bisexual and queer dividuals are crimal; a perceptn that subsets of the state and relig stutns advance to further perpetuate human rights vlatn and acts of vlence.
It is the culmatn of a -long legal battle, and a victory for the LGBTQ+ a majory cisn, the urt led that the non-ernmental ordatn board was discrimatory and ged on the muny’s nstutnal right to associatn by refg to register any of six nam proposed by the muny’s reprentativ, among them the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn and the Gay and Lbian Human Rights ernment body had said that permtg registratn would ntravene sectns of the untry’s penal that crimalise gay and lbian unns, cludg a Brish lonial law layg down a 14-year sentence for anyone nvicted of homosexual acts. “There may be many people who are stgglg wh different kds of sexual sir but they have not gone to urt for the whole natn to regnise them, ” stat the church, which has a large followg Kenya’s urban Kenyan church lked the urt’s lg to the recent cisn by the Church of England to wele same-sex upl “unrervedly and joyfully” Kaluma, an MP allied to the opposn, vowed to table a bill parliament to prohib homosexualy and impose stiffer penalti, cludg life prison, for those engaged same sex lg will be a btersweet victory for the LGBTQ+ muny Kenya, whose members have been subject to harassment, excln and vlence. Kenya’s Penal Co, which crimalis same-sex activy, will rema tact followg a High Court lg which rejected a petn llg for the crimalisatn of homosexualy the untry.
Earlier this year, Angola crimalised homosexualy while Mozambique did so 2015. 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. One of their arguments was that the Constutn would lead to the legalisatn of homosexualy.