LGBTQ+ Nigerians Are Celebratg Pri Month Defiance of Anti-Gay Law

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].

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.

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

“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.

GAY PRI

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. The Fay Protectn Bill, 2023, that would crimalize homosexualy wh a life sentence, is currently unr nsiratn by a parliamentary mtee.

DO KENYANS WANT GAY PRI?

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. 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. 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.

THE ARE THE FAC OF GAY PRI UGANDA

Openly gay Ains are liars seekg visas to the Wt or money om rights groups, he is a member of Kenya's parliament. "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. "It is a hateful piece of legislatn that will tly make the liv of queer Kenyans unbearable if passed, " said Ante Atieno of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn mpaign group.

Meanwhile, Tanzanian lawmaker Jacquele Ngonyani said she planned to troduce a private motn parliament later this year to clamp down on gay activy an attempt to "ntrol the ongog moral y". "If the (gay) people crease, this will be the end of generatn, " she add.