Here's What It's Like to Be Gay Bnei | Time

Contents:

• ‘IT’S DANGERO TO GO OUT NOW’: YOUNG, GAY AND SRED BNEI
• BNEI BACKS DOWN ON GAY SEX ATH PENALTY AFTER TERNATNAL BACKLASH
• SHELL’S STAND ON LGBT RIGHTS UNR SCTY OVER BNEI’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
• THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY BNEI, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS NOW PUNISHABLE BY BEG STONED TO DEATH
• BNEI’S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW GO TO EFFECT THIS WEEK. HERE’S HOW THE WORLD IS REACTG

‘IT’S DANGERO TO GO OUT NOW’: YOUNG, GAY AND SRED BNEI

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BNEI BACKS DOWN ON GAY SEX ATH PENALTY AFTER TERNATNAL BACKLASH

Current statSce Mar 28, 2019Illegal (ath penalty as punishment) Death penalty for married men ught havg homosexual offens (unenforced); 100 lash for unmarried men. This fal phase, which was slated to be implemented later this year or early 2016, will reportedly volve the troductn of executns for “offens” like homosexualy and adultery.

“In Southeast Asia, the untry that has the most worrisome state of rights for LGBT people is Bnei, ” Gg Cristobal of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn says.

SHELL’S STAND ON LGBT RIGHTS UNR SCTY OVER BNEI’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

Bnei was the only untry ASEAN where not a sgle LGBT person or advote was willg to step forward to share their story wh HuffPost -- even year, Amerin reporter Patrick Brzki wrote an unrver report about the “unrground gay scene” the sultanate.

In their State-Sponsored Homophobia report, ILGA stated that: “Bnei Dassalam is currently phasg a Syariah Penal Co that se, black letter law, the ath penalty troduced for certa same-sex sexual activy 2016, but seems unlikely to be implemented actualy.

THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY BNEI, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS NOW PUNISHABLE BY BEG STONED TO DEATH

In November, the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn submted a report to the Commtee on the Elimatn of Discrimatn Agast Women statg that: “The enforcement of SPC Orr 2013 is likely to rult even tighter fay ntrol and creased vlence to force Bneian lbians, tomboys, mascule-lookg women, bisexual women and transgenr women to nform to social norms (and now crimal law) on sexualy and genr. ’”Last week Bnei – a ty tropil natn on the island of Borneo, a former Brish protectorate that is home to 420, 000 people – troduced harsh new sharia laws, cludg ath by stong for adultery and gay sex, and amputatn of limbs for punishments are part of the third and fal phase of sharia laws to be implemented after they were first announced 2013.

BNEI’S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW GO TO EFFECT THIS WEEK. HERE’S HOW THE WORLD IS REACTG

Many, pecially the more visible transgenr people, are keepg a low profile, livg even more discreetly than they already, another gay Bneian man, said: “To me, mak my life even more plited. ”Livg a nservative majory-Mlim society wh strict laws already place – gay sex, for example, has long been illegal – young Bneians are skilled adapters. The news has sparked ternatnal outrage, and lls for a boytt of the Bnei-owned Dorchter Hotel cha, but has also shed a spotlight on the realy that homosexualy and genr-nonnformg inti remas illegal dozens of untri all over the world.

An Indonian man is ned public om an executor known as 'algojo' for havg gay sex, which is agast Sharia law on May 23, 2017 Banda Aceh, Indonia. While many untri that crimalize homosexualy have reputatns as reprsive regim, others are popular tourist statns wh Amerins unaware of the human-rights vlatns gog on beyond their rort walls:. (In Malaysia, where those nvicted face rporal punishment and up to 20 years prison, travel mister Mohamadd Ketapi recently sisted "I don't thk we have anythg like that our untry, " reference to gay people.

Bnei will not impose the ath penalty on those nvicted of havg gay sex, an apparent bid to temper ternatnal nmnatn followg s roll out of strict new Islamic laws last month. The announcement follows a global backlash to the untry’s announcement April that would impose dranian new punishments, cludg ath by stong, for those nvicted of gay sex, adultery and rape. A gay man livg si Bnei, who asked not to be named, said while the sultan’s announcement was “good news, ” did nothg to addrs wispread homophobia and discrimatn the kgdom.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant is the largt foreign bs operatg the small southeast Asian kgdom, which brought laws earlier this month that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stong. Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg.