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Contents:

• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEAD A UK POLICE FORCE DON’T WANT TO BE AN ‘HISTORIC MOMENT’
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

Ai|Kenyan Gay Rights Activist Is Killed ADVERTISEMENTEdw Chiloba’s body was dumped on the roadsi by a movg vehicle the untry’s wt. Police have arrted his iend and are pursug two others the Leteipa/Associated PrsNAIROBI, Kenya — A gay activist and fashn signer was murred and his body found stuffed si a metal box Kenya, the police said on Friday, another episo that raised qutns about dangers and discrimatn faced by gay people across the East Ain Chiloba’s body was found the box after was dropped by the si of the road om a movg vehicle wh no license plate Uas Gishu unty the untry’s wt. The pennt Kenya Human Rights Commissn lled his killg “reprehensible” and “eply unjt” and said was worried about the latg vlence targetg gay Kenyans.

KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED

“This is a ighteng crime but ’s beg mon Kenya — evince of a growg epimic of vlence the untry, ” the anizatn said a is not illegal to intify as a homosexual Kenya, a lonial-era law crimaliz nsensual gay sex as “agast the orr of nature, ” wh those ught facg up to 14 years prison. Arrts and prosecutn unr the laws are rare, but activists say they enable homophobia, and expose members of L. Chiloba was a fashn signer and mol who often spoke up about gay rights, and how clivy and diversy were at the heart of his brand.

Racg briefs are also rigr for swimmers, water polo players and divers, and wily embraced by the gay muny. Adrian Hanstock, QPM has been named the first out gay man to lead a UK police force, servg as temporary chief nstable of Brish Transport Police.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEAD A UK POLICE FORCE DON’T WANT TO BE AN ‘HISTORIC MOMENT’

“Are you gay? Unsurprisgly, views on homosexualy and attus towards gay men particular were hostile and spic.

The thought of a gay man beg a police officer was nsired an herent risk to the very tegry of policg self. As was mon practice wh the ary and most public bodi at that time, “posive vettg” was ed as a means to intify and prevent gay people jog or progrsg those anisatns.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

Homosexualy remaed an absolute bar to jog the police service and vettg checks beme more and more tsive as people rose senry. The rhetoric that unrpned this approach tend to argue that gay men would go to great lengths to avoid beg outed and would be more vulnerable to blackmail, therefore a cril secury risk. One proment chief nstable of the time proclaimed that “…homosexuals, dg addicts and prostut are swirlg a human csp of their own makg” and th one sweepg statement ptured the wir societal opn of the ’80s.

Alongsi the dividual achievements, we mt also acknowledge the monumental chang to natnal attus brokered by the former Lbian and Gay Police Associatn (LAGPA) as well as those forc that set an important early precent by endorsg their officers’ participatn annual Pri events, spe cricism. We rema bted to those trailblazers that helped remove the actual and psychologil barriers that implied gay people were eher unsuable for general policg, were not be tsted to unrtake specialist rol and uldn’t display the quali or valu necsary to lead others.

So, is the appotment of a gay man to rry out the functns of chief nstable another te first for policg? What is still clear however, is that there are still 73 jurisdictns the world that crimalise private, nsensual, same-sex activy and the UK, crim motivated by unjtifiable homophobia, enpassg all typ of offenc om verbal abe and harassment, through to pre-medated asslt and even murr, are still prevalent.

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