Mohamed Mbata, Deputy Director of LGBT Voice Tanzania This past November, I sent my associate Chris Wtlg to Dar Salaam, Tanzania, to meet wh LGBT activists and discs the lack of progrs the area of human rights as related to LGBT issu. Currently, is a crime punishable by imprisonment to be lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr Tanzania. This year, the
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GAY AND LIVG ON AI'S EAST COAST
* gay rights in east africa *
Queer rights monstrators prott durg a rally Nairobi, Kenya, Ochieng / SOPA Imag/LightRocket via Getty Imag fileJune 23, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC / Source: RtersMohamed Ali don’t believe gay Ains exist.
Openly gay Ains are liars seekg visas to the Wt or money om rights groups, he is a member of Kenya’s parliament. “I will ask them to take me to vote for that, to kick them out, kick LGBT people out of Kenya pletely, ” he after Uganda enacted one of the most dranian anti-LGBTQ laws on Earth, Kenya uld be poised to follow su wh a siarly formulated bill that punish gay sex wh prison or even ath some s, acrdg to a draft of the law and two lawmakers backg parliament. Some regnal lawmakers ame the issue as an almost existential battle to save Ain valu and sovereignty, which they say have been battered by Wtern prsure to pulate on gay draft of Kenya’s Fay Protectn Bill, seen by Rters, mirrors many aspects of the Ugandan law, which was signed by Print Yoweri Meveni at the end of May to the dismay of the LGBTQ muny, human rights mpaigners and Wtern sex is punishable by at least 10 years jail unr the proposed Kenyan law, while “aggravated homosexualy, ” which clus gay sex wh a mor or disabled person or when a termal disease is passed on, brgs the ath penalty.
WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
“It is a hateful piece of legislatn that will tly make the liv of queer Kenyans unbearable if passed, ” said Ante Atieno of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn mpaign group. Meanwhile, Tanzanian lawmaker Jacquele Ngonyani said she planned to troduce a private motn parliament later this year to clamp down on gay activy an attempt to “ntrol the ongog moral y. Tanzania’s mister of nstutnal and legal affairs, Damas Ndumbaro, said there was ltle room to tighten existg lonial-era laws agast homosexualy, though.