Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Kenya | Frommer's

Contents:

• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS KENYA
• WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• WHAT IS EVERYDAY GAY AND LBIAN LIFE LIKE KENYA?

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS KENYA

Generally, beg gay is still largely a taboo subject, lbianism doubly so, and many lols take the attu that 's a foreign, un-Ain practice. Neverthels, bee of this, most lols the tourism dtry do accept that non-Ain visors may be gay, so you'll receive no discrimatn. LGBTQIA+ travellers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals.

Dpe the crimalisatn of homosexualy, there is more tolerance of travellers who intify as LGBTQIA+ due to the importance of the untry's tourism dtry. 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.

WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

"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... 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". 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".

"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. "Fay Watch oppos legislatn that penalis a person for havg sexual attractns or for how they intify, " she says an emailed rponse to the Slater addrsed Ain lawmakers, clerics and mpaigners at their fom Uganda's laki cy of Entebbe March, and later appeared a group photo wh Print Meveni at his official more than 20 years, Mrs Slater has lobbied ernments on what she lls "fay valu" and has ma her missn to mpaign agast children and young people beg given Comprehensive Sexualy Edutn (CSE), a curriculum-based sex tn programme champned by the Uned Natns and other c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy" I ntact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Ai, for ment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposn", as she refers to adds that the manual is only a guile, and each untry n tailor to su their Bakaroudis fends CSE, sayg provis "life-savg rmatn" to curb high rat of untend pregnanci, HIV, and sexually transmted diseas.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Crimalizatn of Hate-Based Vlence (0 to +50 Pots) — Is anti-LGBTQ+, hate-based, or homophobia-spired vlence nsired a hate crime this untry? Gallup World Poll (0 to +100 pots) — In the Gallup poll, dividuals were asked, “Is the cy or area where you live a good place or not a good place to live for gay and lbian people? We gave this factor a negative double weightg bee the fact that homosexualy is illegal and n receive the ath sentence means that the laws of the untri are extremely unfavorable for LGBTQ+ people.

While gay marriage is still banned, Japan is makg progrs toward the acceptance of same-sex marriage, and gay upl n now register a domtic partnership as of November 2022. The most homophobic untri (where homosexualy is illegal) are also often severe human rights vlators, ually penalizg male/male sexualy and/or trans women most harshly.

WHAT IS EVERYDAY GAY AND LBIAN LIFE LIKE KENYA?

For stance, ’s illegal to be gay Jamai; the “buggery law, ” which is leftover om the lonial era, allows for a sentence of up to 10 years prison, cludg hard labor. In a 2013 survey of 71 LGBTQ+ people nducted by Human Rights Watch, more than half said they had been victims of homophobic vlence.