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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“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.

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.

BNEI BACKS DOWN ON GAY SEX ATH PENALTY AFTER TERNATNAL BACKLASH

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. In Febary 2021, a new penal me to effect Angola that no longer crimaliz nsensual same-sex nduct, scrappg lonial-era provisns that characterized homosexualy as “vic agast nature. Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT 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 Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, 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 activy.

In Augt 2020, the Court of Appeal led there had not been a proper vtigatn to a vlent homophobic attack 2018 agast a group of LGBT activists, which left at least six activists jured. 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. Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay.

The Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) and women’s rights group, rmed Human Rights Watch that observed an crease onle threats agast activists around the time of the march.

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

Three judg voted unanimoly to revoke the laws, fdg them discrimatory toward gay people and vlatn of Botswana’s nstutnal protectns on privacy and dividual liberty.

In 2020, Print Bolsonaro acced the World Health Organizatn of centivizg homosexualy through s sexualy tn guil, while the Mister of Edutn nounced sexualy tn and attributed homosexualy young people to “maladjted fai.

”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu. In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J. Between January and June 2020, the natnal Human Rights Ombudspersons Office received 1, 134 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons.

Article 29 of the Constutn of Bundi explicly bans same-sex Augt, Print Evariste Ndayishimye ma a televised speech which he scribed homosexualy as a “curse” and claimed that gay people were rponsible for Covid-19.

Acrdg to Cameroonian LGBT rights anizatns, at least six LGBT people were prison as of Febary 2021 on homosexualy charg, cludg transgenr women who were arrted on the basis of genr exprsn. The Central Ain Republic has no blanket ban on same-sex nduct, but s crimal is discrimatory, cludg sanctns on homosexual nduct – but not heterosexual nduct – public.