The Kaleidospe Tst this week released a report on LGBTI (lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual/transgenr and tersex) rights Commonwealth untri. It found that 41 of the 53 member stat still…
Contents:
- GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI / GLBTQ+ FRIENDLY COUNTRI 2023
- THERA MAY SAYS SHE EPLY REGRETS BRA'S LEGACY OF ANTI-GAY LAWS
- DIVER TOM DALEY MAK PLEA FOR 37 COMMONWEALTH NATNS TO RELAX ANTI-GAY LAWS
- OLYMPIC DIVG CHAMP TOM DALEY NMNS ANTI-GAY POLICI ACROSS COMMONWEALTH NATNS
GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI / GLBTQ+ FRIENDLY COUNTRI 2023
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The Kaleidospe Tst this week released a report on LGBTI (lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual/transgenr and tersex) rights Commonwealth untri.
It found that 41 of the 53 member stat still crimalise homosexual sex. This equat to almost 80% of the Commonwealth members, and over half of the 78 stat globally which gay sex is illegal. But ntrary to the report’s explanatn, homophobia the Commonwealth isn’t jt a relic of lonialism.
THERA MAY SAYS SHE EPLY REGRETS BRA'S LEGACY OF ANTI-GAY LAWS
Anti-gay discrimatn not on the agenda of this month's heads of ernment meetg Sri Lanka * commonwealth nations gay *
The Kaleidospe report draws attentn to other rights vlatns, cludg the crimalisatn of homosexual sex and the harassment of LGBTI activists. Other Commonwealth natns have also ma global headl recently for persecutg homosexuals. In 2009, the Ugandan parliament bated a bill that would have troduced the ath penalty for serial offenrs, HIV-posive people who engage homosexual activy, and people havg homosexual sex wh a disabled partner.
DIVER TOM DALEY MAK PLEA FOR 37 COMMONWEALTH NATNS TO RELAX ANTI-GAY LAWS
Of the 72 untri that still crimalise gay sex today, at least 38 of them were once subject to Brish lonialism. * commonwealth nations gay *
The Kaleidospe Tst report offers a fairly simple explanatn for why LGBTI discrimatn so prevalent the Commonwealth: homophobic legislatn is a relic of Brish Imperial le.
OLYMPIC DIVG CHAMP TOM DALEY NMNS ANTI-GAY POLICI ACROSS COMMONWEALTH NATNS
Uganda nsired imposg the ath penalty for homosexual activy. Delonisatn was largely acplished by 1967 when gay law reform first passed England and Wal.
Cly speakg then, legislatn banng gay sex the Commonwealth is a legacy of lonisatn. Homophobic law and “the attus that had followed the law” were imposed on lonised societi, and largely remaed after lonisatn.