Sudan's cisn to lift the ath penalty and floggg as punishment for gay sex was hailed by LGBT+ activists on Thursday as a promisg sign after almost four s of Islamist le, wh lls for prison sentenc to be abolished as well.
Contents:
- 'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
AMMAN/LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Sudan’s cisn to lift the ath penalty and floggg as punishment for gay sex was hailed by LGBT+ activists on Thursday as a promisg sign after almost four s of Islamist le, wh lls for prison sentenc to be abolished as cricised the relaxatn of the law nservative Sudan, where a transnal ernment has promised to lead the untry to mocracy after the topplg last year of tocrat Omar al-Bashir, who had been power sce 1989. Sudan was one of six untri, cludg Iran, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria and Somalia, that imposed the ath penalty for gay sex, acrdg to the LGBT+ rights group Sudan’s old sodomy law, gay men faced 100 lash for the first offence, five years jail for the send and the ath penalty the third time around. The punishments have been rced to prison terms, rangg om five years to legal amendment was part of several reforms announced by the jtice mister on Saturday, cludg plans to crimalise apostasy - the abandonment of a relign - and to perm non-Mlims to nsume will also ban female genal mutilatn, which typilly volv the partial or total removal of the external genalia of girls and women, and allow women to travel wh their children whout a perm om a male relative, he said the ernment was discreet about droppg the ath penalty for gay sex and s amendment document did not tail what Article 148 - the sodomy law - was about.
“Congrats to the immoral people who achieved their misguid mands over female genal mutilatn, legimisg sodomy, drkg alhol, and openg bars and night clubs, ” said one Twter er wh the handle Elbarai, an LGBT+ activist based the pal Khartoum, weled the surprise move to lift the ath penalty but said would not change life much for gay people Sudan. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.
However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary. Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida. Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.
” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts.