In the latt Ai the News, Brandon Routman reps the recent anti-gay legislatn passed Uganda, peace talks Ethpia to end vlence South Sudan, and highlights om the Foright Ai report.
Contents:
- POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS
- MACH NHIANY: THE FIRST SOUTH SUDANE OPEN GAY
- SOUTH SUDAN - GAY LIFE NOT PROUD
- AI THE NEWS: HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW PASS UGANDA, SOUTH SUDAN ENTERS PEACE TALKS, AND AI 2014
POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS
LGBT Rights South Sudan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay in south sudan *
Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. HistoryHomosexual activy South Sudan?
Homosexual activy South Sudan is illegal (imprisonment as punishment). Current statSce Jul 8, 2011Not legal As homosexualy is a punishable offense, same sex marriage is also not legalCensorship of LGBT Issu South Sudan?
MACH NHIANY: THE FIRST SOUTH SUDANE OPEN GAY
Pope Francis phed back agast the nmnatn of the gay muny and anti-gay laws after visg wh Ain lears on Sunday. * gay in south sudan *
Current statSce Jul 9, 2011No protectns No protectn is granted as homosexualy is illegalLGBT employment discrimatn South Sudan?
Current statSce Jul 9, 2011Illegal No protectn granted as homosexualy is illegalBlood donatns by MSMs South Sudan? N/A Homosexualy is currently illegal.
5 (UPI) -- Pope Francis phed back agast the nmnatn of the gay muny and anti-gay laws after visg wh Ain lears on Sunday. The Pope said is a s and jtice to treat people wh "homosexual tennci" poorly when terviewed durg his flight om South Sudan, the Catholic News Agency reports. "People wh homosexual tennci are children of God.
SOUTH SUDAN - GAY LIFE NOT PROUD
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is taboo Ai and is nsired a crime that is punishable by law * gay in south sudan *
Crimalizg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. Punishment for vlatg anti-gay laws clu lashg and the ath penalty. In all, the Pope spent six days Ai, but the subject of homosexualy was quickly dismissed by Ain ernment and relig lears.
AI THE NEWS: HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW PASS UGANDA, SOUTH SUDAN ENTERS PEACE TALKS, AND AI 2014
While some morn missnari are aware of the lonial legaci attached to their work, evangelil church ntue to provi aid while promotg an explicly anti-gay agenda – which Christian natns are more likely to support * gay in south sudan *
Stephen Ameyu Mart Mulla, archbishop of South Sudan's pal cy Juba, said addrsg the ill treatment of the gay muny the untry is not a prry, The New York Tim reports. He argued that he was not aware of anyone beg imprisoned for homosexualy and asserted that each untry should be allowed to addrs the subject as choos.
Yet, this amework, is not surprisg to ascerta the treatment often rerved to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) persons. Homophobic discrimatn seems to be worryg above all the Epispal Church. He also add that homosexualy do not exist South Sudan and if anybody wants to import/export to South Sudan, this actn “will always be nmned by everybody”.
Nuer and Zan are two of the ethnic groups prent South Sudan (Thabo Msibi, ‘The Li We Have Been Told: On (Homo) Sexualy Ai’, Ai Today, 2011 at 65-66 and 89). In 2012, Sudan’s first onle gay magaze named “Rabow Sudan” beme available. Along the same l of the Penal Co, the 2011 Passports and Immigratn Act, Sectn 15(5) (“Refal or Cancellatn of Visa”) stat that a visa shall not be granted to an alien who “is reasonably spected to be enterg South Sudan for the purpos of prostutn, homosexualy, lbianism or human traffickg”.
Discsns About LGBT Rights South Sudan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay in south sudan *
In this unfavourable scenar for LGBTI muni, South Sudan is also assisted by the fact that the three sub-regnal anizatns is a part of have been until now pletely silent on the subject of the homo/trans/tersexualy. The cisns revive the bate around homosexualy Ai bee, by referrg to Ain valu and tradns, the AU Executive Council seems to put emphasis on the ia that homosexualy is an import om the “Wt” that go agast Ain tradns, although we have seen that this ia is historilly not te.
“It [homosexualy] is not our character… is not there and if anybody wants to import to Sudan… will always be nmned by everybody. March 10, 2015 (SSB) — Hot Juba, which scrib self as the “first Junub all round gossips webse” has electrified South Sudane on social media wh a story of Mach Nhiany, dubbed the first South Sudan gay. Most Ains have always mata that homosexualy is a social phenomenal manufactured by the rich whe men livg a nce society.
This is not the first reported se of homosexualy among South Sudane, however. As Majur Deng Nhial of explaed his 2010 article “The visible gays muny South Sudan”, there have been known s of gay people among the Diaspora muny:.