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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- UN WEL ANGOLA’S REPEAL OF ANTI-GAY LAW, AND BAN ON DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- ANGOLA LEGALIS GAY RIGHTS GROUP NATNAL FIRST
UN WEL ANGOLA’S REPEAL OF ANTI-GAY LAW, AND BAN ON DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN
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). The formulatns have wily been terpreted as a ban on homosexual nduct.
ANGOLA LEGALIS GAY RIGHTS GROUP NATNAL FIRST
The Angolan Natnal Assembly voted of 155 to 1 to abolish the provisn crimalisg homosexual relatnships on January 23. It is homophobia, not homosexual acts, that will be punished future.
This is a great step forward for Angola’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) muny.
And data shows that attus towards homosexualy the regn are beg ls negative. In s 2016 survey pennt Ain rearch work Aobarometer found that tolerance towards homosexual persons the regn was higher than any other part of the ntent. In the survey, an average of 32% rponnts southern Ain untri exprsed a favourable view towards havg neighbours who are homosexual.