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

Contents:

• ‘IT’S DANGERO TO GO OUT NOW’: YOUNG, GAY AND SRED BNEI
• THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY BNEI, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS NOW PUNISHABLE BY BEG STONED TO DEATH
• SHELL’S STAND ON LGBT RIGHTS UNR SCTY OVER BNEI’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

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

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When the ty, oil-rich kgdom of Bnei first announced 2013 that would adopt strict Islamic laws, cludg ath by stong for gay sex, many the untry’s LGBT muny nsired fleeg. 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.

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

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. Sometim people make private parti -- mostly gay artists and celebri Bnei do that … We jt have to follow one le: Don't put out there. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.

While Cha crimalized homosexual nduct 1997, lacks laws protectg people om discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty, and same-sex partnership is not legal. Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante.

”For several months, Egyptians livg wh HIV, cludg gay men, faced obstacl to accsg HIV treatment as they feared retrievg their meditn om fever hospals, the only centers where people livg wh HIV n accs lifavg meditns, after the ernment signated them as treatment centers for Covid-19. Between October 2019 and April 2020 alone, at least seven trans women and two gay men were murred El Salvador, wh tails the s suggtg the killers had been motivated by hatred based on the victims’ genr inty or sexual orientatn.

In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever Eswati Pri event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT equaly.