gay rights — Columns — Fareed Zakaria

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• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AT DAVOS LGBT PANEL: 'WE STILL HAVE A HUGE STGGLE'
• FAREED ZAKARIA = GAY?

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AT DAVOS LGBT PANEL: 'WE STILL HAVE A HUGE STGGLE'

Is Fareed Zakaria Gay? Nigeria’s fance mister on gay rights CNN’s FAREED ZAKARIA GPS featur an terview wh Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s fance mister, former managg director of the World Bank, and thor of “Reformg the Unreformable: Lsons om Nigeria”, about how $20 billn got lost om Nigeria’s treasury, the spensn of the chairman of the Feral Rerv after he lled attentn to the suatn, and why Nigeria has passed anti-gay legislatn. Nigeria has always had laws banng homosexualy.

But you advanced a further law which crimalized so that somebody who is gay would have to spend 14 years prison. You also have passed — the law says that people who are some way promotg gay clubs or gay discsn would be imprisoned for 10 years. And took 40 to 50 years or more unr nversatn of, you know, the gay muny to get where the U.

FAREED ZAKARIA = GAY?

Nety-six percent of people support the laws, but I thk we need to unpack the laws, for them to see, you know, between beg a gay person and between same-sex marriage bee the two are pound people’s mds and there’s a strong sentiment agast same-sex marriage, jt as you had here before.

Hot steamg tea, but Bill Maher and Ariana Huffgton accintally outed Fareed Zakaria as gay on Bill’s podst yterday, that he left his wife and kids, and that they thk ’s public ( isn’t) but if not “we’ll cut this part out” (they didn’t). "We still have a huge stggle, " Lewis Pillay, Uned Natns High Commissner for Human Rights, noted that the panel me at a relevant time, after several anti-gay mov have ma headl around the world.