Angola has legalised same-sex marriage 133 years after the proscriptn of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) muny the untry.
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FALLY, EEDOM! IT’S OFFICIALLY LEGAL TO BE GAY ANGOLA
The new law overturned a lonial-era "vice agast nature" provisn that was seen as a ban on homosexual relatns. \u201cLa loi d\u00e9p\u00e9nalisant l\u2019homosexual\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e en #Angola en 2019 a pris effet jourd\u2019hui. Angola has legalised same-sex marriage 133 years after the proscriptn of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) muny the untry.
The reform has been hailed by human rights activists who have been phg for equal rights for the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) muny Angola and other Ain untri. “The law crimalisg homosexualy adopted Angola 2019 took effect today, ” LGBTQ+ rights advote Jean-Luc Romero-Michel tweeted. The ernment said homosexualy was one of many “vic agast nature”.
Bin a statement on Memorandum on Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World directed Amerin Embassy Nigeria and other untri to ph for the legalisatn of homosexualy their rpective untri of rince. The US print said the memorandum reaffirms and supplements the prcipl tablished the Printial Memorandum of December 6, 2011 (Internatnal Iniativ to Advance the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Persons).
ANGOLA HAS DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX
The 134-year-old lonial-era ban on homosexualy Angola is no more after the untry’s revised penal me to effect this week. The new Penal Co and Penal Procre Co will no longer crimalise “vic agast nature”, which is wily unrstood to refer to gay and lbian sexualy. Although the 1886 ban had not been ed by the state to prosecute LGBTQ people recent tim, the velopment is a landmark statement agast homophobia Angola and the rt of Ai.
He told DQ that while much work remas, the law now at least provis “a legal amework to go after homophobic crim.