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- DISVER THE 5 MOST GAY-IENDLY ARAB UNTRI
- BAHRA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- GAY IENDLY HOTELS BAHRA
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Human Rights Watch has documented homophobic vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to bet a remendatn to strike down the buggery laws, but as of 2019, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual the full Eastern Caribbean Report ».
On April 5, 2019, a transgenr woman, Lil Martirosyan, beme the first openly LGBT Armenian to addrs parliament, but her speech was followed by ath Febary 2019, Max Varzhapetyan, a 24-year-old gay activist, was asslted and beaten Yerevan. The crimal do not regnize homophobia as an aggravatg crimal circumstance, and a ernment bill on equaly do not clu sexual orientatn and genr inty as grounds for protectn om gay men fear for their physil secury the ary, and some seek exemptn om servg the army.
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In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him, and threatened to out him to his father.
Although no law has specifilly crimalized same-sex acts between adults over the age of 21 sce the repeal of the 1955 Brish-imposed Penal Co 1976, the thori have reportedly prosecuted acts such as anizg a “gay party” or cross-drsg unr vague penal provisns agast “cency” and “immoraly. Although no law has specifilly crimalized same-sex acts between adults over the age of 21 sce the repeal of the 1955 Brish-imposed Penal Co 1976, the thori have reportedly prosecuted acts such as anizg a “gay party” or cross-drsg unr vague penal provisns agast “cency” and “immoraly.
Egypt ntu to subject people acced of homosexual nduct to forced anal examatns, which are cel and gradg and n rise to the level of March 12, 2020, durg s third Universal Perdic Review (UPR), Egypt rejected remendatns by several stat to end arrts and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Egypt censored gay-themed scen om the film Bohemian Rhapsody, starrg Egyptian-Amerin actor Rami October 2018, the UN special rapportr on the right to aquate hog reported that LGBT people were beg evicted, nied hog and harassed bee of their sexual orientatn and genr inty. Print Adama Barrow’s ernment has assured Human Rights Watch that do not tend to prosecute same-sex upl for nsensual sexual acts, which sharply ntrasts wh former print Yahya Jammeh's hate-filled rhetoric toward lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
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Police lnched an vtigatn to Vasadze's claims but there was no publicly known oute at time of events associated wh Tbilisi Pri took place, and on July 8, 2019, around 40 activists and LGBT supporters held a pri march outsi the Interr November 2019, ultra-natnalist groups and their supporters anized protts agast the screeng of a Swedish-Geian gay love-themed film, “And Then We Danced, ” Tbilisi and Batumi, harassg and at tim attackg moviegoers. The bill lists homosexualy, alongsi child pornography, ct, and mercial sexual exploatn of children, as a reason to ny a cizen a other bill lls for a ban on gay marriage, as well as any public support or advocy for LGBT rights. Arbrary police raids on private LGBT gathergs, assisted by ant Islamists, have railed public health outreach efforts to vulnerable May 2019, a former police brigadier filed a lawsu agast the central Java provcial police, claimg he had been fired for beg gay.
On September 14, 2017, Nasser Atabati, prosecutor of Arbil provce, told media that six people had been arrted Arbil for “promotg homosexualy” on the Telegram msagg March 2017, before the Commtee on the Rights of the Child, Iran nied allegatns that ercive treatment and electric shocks were beg ed agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. The clu a 2015 High Court lg favor of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn a se volvg eedom of assembly and associatn, a 2018 Appeals Court lg prohibg forced anal examatns, and lgs affirmg transgenr and tersex people's rights. Sce then, the challeng facg LGBT people the untry have been further exacerbated by the lack of clary and divergent opns regardg the legaly of the moratorium on arrts and prosecutns for nsensual homosexual September 2013, the Malawi High Court issued a notice that would review the nvictn of three dividuals for “unnatural offens, ” based on the nstutnaly of this provisn.