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Contents:

• DISPLACED TWICE: GAY UGANDANS ON THE N FACE UPHEAVAL KENYA
• ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
• LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
• GAY PRI
• DO KENYANS WANT GAY PRI?
• THE ARE THE FAC OF GAY PRI UGANDA

DISPLACED TWICE: GAY UGANDANS ON THE N FACE UPHEAVAL KENYA

The 37-year-old, who openly intifi as gay, was among 20 people arrted at a party Mbale the untry’s east, he told Al Jazeera. “In Uganda, LGBTQ persons live unr the mercy of secury forc and homophobic neighbours. There is rampant harassment and discrimatn agast gay people ernment stutns, shoppg malls, hospals and public transport, ” Naturibale told Al Jazeera om Nairobi.

ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS

Kenya is also highly homophobic; January, proment LGBTQ rights activist Edw Chiloba was found ad a metal box the untry’s wt. People walk unr a giant rabow flag as they take part the Gay Pri Para Entebbe on Augt 8, 2015 [Isaac Kasamani/AFP].

LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW

Trouble began that day after the Kenyan Supreme Court led that the Natnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC) be allowed to officially register as a non-ernmental anisatn (NGO), sayg was unnstutnal to ny approval on the basis of applints’ sexual orientatn. Another has prepared a bill seekg a life sentence for any person found promotg or engagg homosexualy.

Consequently, many who openly intify as gay are aaid to leave their ho, NGLHRC -founr and former executive director Eric Gari, told Al Jazeera. “There are creasg requts for evacuatn, relotn and psychotherapy wh anisatns rpondg to no ls than 117 recent homophobic attacks the last month are seeg their se-load multiplyg, ” Ingu said. “My landlord knew I was gay and when the hate mpaigns got heated, he was kd enough and lled for a meetg and asked to seek a safer space.

Dpe the homophobic csa led by Kenyan polil and relig lears puttg their liv at risk, the untry had given people like him the “hope and life” that had been ripped away om them back Uganda, he said. Refuge and asylum seekers who intify as LGBTQ would be expelled om Kenya unr a proposed anti-homosexualy law.

GAY PRI

The Fay Protectn Bill, 2023, that would crimalize homosexualy wh a life sentence, is currently unr nsiratn by a parliamentary mtee. The lawmaker not that homosexualy, same-sex marriag and other so-lled unnatural sexual acts go agast “public moraly” that threaten the fay un unr Article 45 of Kenya’s nstutn, which regniz marriage as between people of the oppose sex.

This is spe rampant s of homophobia the untry and some LGBTQ refuge plag about discrimatn, vlent attacks and stctn of their property by other refuge and rints.

DO KENYANS WANT GAY PRI?

Refugee Agency Kenya March 2021 issued a statement  rponse to homophobic attacks on LGBTQ refuge Kenyan mps by assurg s mment to their safety. The move to curb homosexualy Kenya through the new law barely three months after more than 300 LGBTQ refuge at Kakuma mp lnched an onle signature llectn iative to petn the thori to stop discrimatn, torture and mistreatment. This provisn is rponse to the Kenyan Supreme Court’s ntroversial lg  Febary that allowed the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn to register a non-ernmental anizatn.

THE ARE THE FAC OF GAY PRI UGANDA

REUTERS/Monih MwangiRtersBy Ayenat Mersie and Melwa HlatshwayoNAIROBI (Rters) -Mohamed Ali don't believe gay Ains exist. He says homosexualy is a Wtern ventn imposed on the ntent.