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. 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. 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. Uganda nsired imposg the ath penalty for homosexual activy.
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 *
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.
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 *
While I unequivolly support the crimalisatn of same-sex acts, the explanatn of Commonwealth homophobia prented the report disturbs me. The majory of untri which gay sex is illegal are the poorer and ls veloped stat Ai, Asia, the Middle East and the Carribean. But the foc on non-whe former loni sil rights ab untri where gay sex is legal.
Furthermore, the neolonial narrative implic the report prents acceptance of homosexual rights as a marker of Wtern morny.
OLYMPIC DIVG CHAMP TOM DALEY NMNS ANTI-GAY POLICI ACROSS COMMONWEALTH NATNS
It lends self to the (not unfound) crique that homosexualy is beg imposed a neolonial manner on former lonial posssns. Even the wt, men didn’t start to refer to themselv as “gay” until the 1970s.
Tradnal transgenred people have been able to be legally regnised a society which gay sex has not yet been able to be ma legal. Fally, and most importantly, the lonial explanatn of Commonwealth homophobia ignor non-Wtern sourc of opposn to sexual eedom. Lotg homophobia (and LGBTI activism) the lonial doma fails to regnise or engage wh eher the agency of postlonial activists or that of postlonial homophob.