It’s not illegal to be gay Indonia, but police are crackg down anyway - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• INDONIA MAY OUTLAW GAY SEX AMID GROWG ANTI-LGBTQ SENTIMENT
• RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• INDONIAN ANTI-GAY LAW CREATED BEE ‘HOMOSEXUALY IS A DISEASE’
• IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY INDONIA, BUT POLICE ARE CRACKG DOWN ANYWAY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

INDONIA MAY OUTLAW GAY SEX AMID GROWG ANTI-LGBTQ SENTIMENT

Homosexualy and extramaral sex are not outlawed Mlim-majory Indonia, but some among the more nservative followers of Islam here view them as vic. However, a ntent new bill to amend Indonia’s crimal ntas provisns that would crimalize sex outsi marriage, cludg homosexual acts, said Kurniasih Mufidayati, a lawmaker volved liberatg the bill that may be passed July.

Last week, the embassy also had posted a rabow flag photo on Instagram to mark the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, wh text that said: “The U. Earlier this month, there was a public backlash agast a popular YouTube talk show hosted by an Indonian celebry that featured a gay uple. In a Twter exchange wh a nservative Mlim polician who lled for actn agast homosexualy prompted by this episo, a mister, Mohammad Mahfud MD, said he had advoted for the cln of extramaral sex and same-sex relatns the crimal sce 2017.

RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?

De Oetomo, an activist for gay rights, cricized Mahfud MD for advotg the outlawg of homosexual relatns at a time when more untri have started to regnize the rights of sexual mori. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.

”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

Muny, as gay marriage is illegal Indonia. Most Indonians held fairly relaxed views about homosexualy, which was never officially recent years, nservative Islam has gaed ground the untry, and now some fear s fluence is growg, even as s ranks rema a mory Parliament. “But gay and lbian Indonians, who, of urse, are upl and they n’t be married, they are pletely exposed.

”Police have prevly arrted dozens of gay men for vlatg an anti-pornography law, but now, all gay upl who live together are subject to possible ph for the overhl was backed by Vice Print Ma’f Am, an Islamic cleric and the former chair of the Indonian Ulema Council, the untry’s top body for Islamic scholars, acrdg to two people who spoke on the ndn of anonymy bee they were not thorized to disclose the tails of private nversatns.

INDONIAN ANTI-GAY LAW CREATED BEE ‘HOMOSEXUALY IS A DISEASE’

Ma’f had prevly lled for “stern regulatns” on the sexual activi of gay a reversal, lawmakers on Tuday restated a provisn makg illegal to attack “the honor or digny” of both Indonia’s print and vice print, a le that was stck down by the Constutnal Court 2006. Advot have nceled a regnal gatherg of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists Indonia’s pal, Jakarta, rponse to harassment and ath threats om Mlim nservativ. Ban on extramaral sex n be applied to all same-sex uplIndonia is among the least gay-iendly plac the worldIndonia’s new crimal will fully e to effect after Print Joko Widodo signs .

In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. “If you’re the person whose partner has cheated on them, or whose child is gay, then a sense opens the door for you to report them to thori, ” said Hegarty.

”Andreas Harsono, a senr Indonia rearcher at Human Rights Watch, said the uld be selectively enforced bee of s impractily, cg “lns” of habg unmarried upl are fears the l uld have a severe impact on LGBTQ+ muni Indonia, where gay marriage is not acknowledged. He tried to e his office to retaliate agast Disney for admtg that gay people exist and disvered that Disney is much better at law-talk’ stuff than his merry band of bh leaguers. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.

IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY INDONIA, BUT POLICE ARE CRACKG DOWN ANYWAY

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later. An Indonian regn has drafted an anti-LGBT law bee—acrdg to s lear—homosexualy is an “fect disease.

Hadi said he was worried bee homosexualy was an “fect disease and agast relig norms.

Payakumbuh lawmakers have drafted revisns to a law to stop the “viant behavur” of gay sex om spreadg (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty). Is homosexualy legal Indonia? Beg gay is legal Indonia, apart om Aceh, which operat unr Sharia law and where, last year, two men were ned 83 tim as a legal punishment for havg gay sex.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

There have, however, been multiple attempts to outlaw gay sex the untry.

JAKARTA, Indonia — In Indonia, the world's largt Mlim-majory natn, homosexualy is legal and the state largely stays out of issu of private moraly.

But as nservative relig groups bee more proment polil life here, police are creasgly fdg other ways to crack down on LGBT weekend they arrted 58 Indonians and foreigners at a Jakarta sna popular wh gay men, allegedly for vlatg the untry's pornography laws. In May, two men were publicly ned for havg even more liberal ci like Jakarta, where gay clubs and queer advocy groups operate openly, the spate of arrts has had a chillg effect on the LGBT muny. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.