Contents:
- THE GAY KENYANS TRYG TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA OM THE SI
- KENYA'S FIRST GAY POLIL NDIDATE REVEALS WHY HE QU RACE
THE GAY KENYANS TRYG TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA OM THE SI
Rearch suggts acceptance of homosexualy is gradually creasg Kenya, but remas a taboo subject for many.
The untry’s film board has banned two films for their portrayals of gay liv recent years. Edw Chiloba was a fighter, fightg relentlsly to change the hearts and mds of society when me to LGBTQ+ liv, ” GALCK, a Kenyan gay rights group, said on Twter. Unr a Brish lonial-era law, gay sex Kenya is punishable by 14 years prison.
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KENYA'S FIRST GAY POLIL NDIDATE REVEALS WHY HE QU RACE
In 2012, David Kuria gaed global attentn by clarg that he is gay. If elected, the 40-year-old would have bee the first Ain gay polician (outsi of South Ai) and Kenya’s first openly gay elected official—a feat a untry where gay sex remas a felony crime punishable by imprisonment.
Acrdg to the Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALK), formed December 2012, many of s members have exprsed tert nng for polil seats. “Homosexualy is still illegal unr the untry’s nstutn.
“I want to [work to] legalize homosexualy through the legislative procs, ” he says. Unr current laws, sodomy (or gay sex) is punishable by a prison sentence of 14 years.