Lawmakers the Himalayan untry voted this week to amend a 2004 law that crimaliz “sexual nduct that is agast the orr of nature,” prevly treated as a reference to gay sex.
Contents:
- BHUTAN GAYS CELEBRATE AFTER HOMOSEXUALY CRIMALISED
- BHUTAN’S FIRST PUBLIC GAY UPLE RECEIVE POSIVE RPONS AFTER G OUT
- HOW GAY ARE BHUTANE GAYS?
- GAY NIRVANA: BHUTAN’S LGBT POPULATN EMERG OM THE SHADOWS
- BHUTAN BE LATT ASIAN NATN TO DIAL BACK ANTI-GAY LAWS
- GAY TRAVEL TO BHUTAN ADVICE PLEASE... - BHUTAN FOM
- BHUTAN OVERLAND: A GAY TRAVEL CULTURAL TOUR
BHUTAN GAYS CELEBRATE AFTER HOMOSEXUALY CRIMALISED
Bhutan, which measur progrs wh a 'gross natnal happs' metric, has crimalized gay sex and seen a rise LGBTQ acceptance and activism. * bhutanese gay *
In neighborg India, the Supreme Court stck down one of the world’s olst bans on gay sex 2018. In Augt, Sgapore crimalized gay sex, although the ernment also spoke of safeguardg marriage as a unn between a man and woman.
BHUTAN’S FIRST PUBLIC GAY UPLE RECEIVE POSIVE RPONS AFTER G OUT
A jot stg of both ho of Bhutan’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, makg the ty Himalayan kgdom the latt Asian natn to take steps towards easg rtrictns on same-sex relatnships. * bhutanese gay *
Bhutan’s penal — which clud the ban on gay sex — took effect 2004, four years before the untry held s first electns as part of a transn om absolute monarchy to nstutnal mocracy.
”“It’s all happeng much more quickly than I anticipated, ” said Namgay Zam, the former director of the Journalists’ Assn. She me out to iends on social media when she was 15, and a few months ago announced to her fay she is gay.
HOW GAY ARE BHUTANE GAYS?
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(Namgay Wangch / AFP/Getty Imag) “They had a strong reactn, but I want to give hope to people like me, who e om a hard nservative fay, ” she said. Photo: Tashi TshetenOn June 7, Bhutan’s lower hoe overwhelmgly voted to repeal Sectns 213 and 214 of the Bhutan Penal Co, takg a historic step towards crimalisg homosexualy the Himalayan untry.
And while the Fance Mister of Bhutan, Namgay Tsherg, lled the existg sectns “a sta” on the untry’s reputatn, the legislative mtee of the Bhutane Natnal Assembly went on to move the motn to pass the amendment to s penal , on June Tsheten—a 26-year-old gay Bhutane om Thimphu and the director of lol LGBTQ anisatn Rabow Bhutan—tells VICE about growg up queer a patriarchal society, and what this piece of news means to him:Growg up queer Bhutan was a ltle lonelyI wouldn't say growg up queer was difficult Bhutan but there has never been much visibily of the LGBTQ muny the untry.
GAY NIRVANA: BHUTAN’S LGBT POPULATN EMERG OM THE SHADOWS
While the ernment and media do not monize or disparage gay people, Bhutan is still far om beg a Shangri-La for s gay cizens. * bhutanese gay *
Not g across any gay, bisexual or queer persons ma me feel very Tsheten, an LGBTQ activist om BhutanBullyg was mon bee boys are expected to be a certa wayI realised I was gay back 2015 when I turned 22.
BHUTAN BE LATT ASIAN NATN TO DIAL BACK ANTI-GAY LAWS
What’s like to be gay a untry where ‘gross natnal happs’ is the stated policy of the ernment? * bhutanese gay *
Before that, I wasn't bullied for beg gay, but more for beg [effemate]. The fance mister [Namgay Tsherg] stood up for and plead to the NA. A jot stg of both ho of Bhutan’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, makg the ty Himalayan kgdom the latt Asian natn to take steps towards easg rtrictns on same-sex relatnships.
GAY TRAVEL TO BHUTAN ADVICE PLEASE... - BHUTAN FOM
Miss Bhutan 2022 Tashi Chon is Bhutan's first openly queer public figure sce gay sex was crimalised there 2021 * bhutanese gay *
Sectns 213 and 214 of the penal had crimalized “unnatural sex, ” wily terpreted as homosexualy. “Homosexualy will not be nsired as unnatural sex now, ” Wangdi told Rters by phone om the Bhutane pal of Thimphu, whout givg tails.
BHUTAN OVERLAND: A GAY TRAVEL CULTURAL TOUR
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Neighborg India removed a centuri-old lonial prohibn on gay sex 2018, triggerg celebratn across the untry. "A lot of cried, " said Tashi Tsheten of Rabow Bhutan that reprents the untry's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.
LGBT Rights Bhutan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * bhutanese gay *
"We are a small and margalised muny and when our rights are discsed parliament, mak extremely happy, " Tashi law had never been ed, but Fance Mister Namgay Tsherg, who submted the remendatn to repeal sectns 213 and 214 of the penal , said they had bee "a sta" on the untry's Tsherg said the sectns had bee rndant sce Bhutan beme a nstutnal monarchy 2008.