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Contents:
- ETHPIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
- GAY ETHPIA?
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
- TOP GAY DTATNS: ETHPIA
- ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY
ETHPIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
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Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
GAY ETHPIA?
They give birr 150 (~$8) to public school teachers so that the teachers will teach stunts how people are born to be homosexuals and that beg a homosexual is not different om beg a heterosexual. While born aga Christian young girls and vibrant young anoted men are given over to sensualy as they vour sexually explic and/or suggtive Ethpian dramas and movi, I don’t thk is wise for me to march agast homosexualy.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
Beg real, abandong the fake intyArticle Published by, Hodye[This article has been modified om s origal source]Gay Ethpians stggle to be themselvAs a gay Ethpian man Los Angel, I teract wh many muni cludg: the gay male and lbian muny, the Ethpian muny, and the Amerin society at large. I have experienced discrimatn wh each of the muni, and beg a mory wh a mory mak one more vulnerable to Gay CommunyWhen I disvered the gay muny Los Angel, I felt relieved that there were other gay people like me. As a rult, I was so bld by my need for a supportive muny that I totally merged wh the gay muny and s popular assiatnist a gay activist, I foced more on external g-out activi like marchg gay pri paras, and followed an extroverted approach of beg gay.
I did not know gay liberatn should clu the ternal journey of tamg the mon of ternalized homophobia, and nscly experiencg my reprsed feelgs of hurt and rage for growg up a vlent homophobic world. Many gay Ethpians al wh this plexy of teractg wh different muni by creatg different personas and mergg wh each example, I know many gay Ethpians go to work every day and totally merge wh the rporate system, then they vis their Ethpian fai and pretend they are heterosexuals and to datg women. It mt be a paful awakeng one's 40s or 50s to realize that one has gone through life wh a fake inty and the clost he or she ever got to experience gay love was few anonymo sexual enunters.
5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
For many gay Ethpians who live Los Angel or elsewhere, this closeted liftyle was eher chosen or forced on to them for many I was the closet I ed to e up wh creative li to hi my te inty bee I was ma to feel ashamed of myself and very sred of losg fay support. Moreover, I grew up a heterosexual Ethpian fay which I was reared as if I too were heterosexual and was nstantly told that heterosexualy was the only exprsn of my gay self would rult receivg vlent treatments om kids school and my fay.
I have empathy for myself and other gay men and lbians for spendg many years of our liv hidg our te inti orr to please our heterosexual Ethpian fay North AmeriIt is very difficult to have an pennt inty outsi an Ethpian fay un.
TOP GAY DTATNS: ETHPIA
No one dar to qutn the system, which sacrific one's needs orr to keep parental the Ethpian fay system, there is no room to exprs one's gay inty, and g out to the Ethpian fay is viewed as brgg shame on the fay.
For example, fay members might blame their health problems on the g out of their gay is not unmon for Ethpian parents North Ameri to keep their gay children the closet by g guilt factors such as accg the gay child of beg ungrateful for everythg that has been done for him or her. Unfortunately, many Ethpian parents are more ncerned wh how others might judge havg a gay son or lbian dghter might make them look ls favorably, then fai prefer that child to stay the closet and lie about his or her inty. What people might say is more of a ncern than how their child might benef om g a gay Ethpian man, I do not ny the plexy volved teractg wh three very different muni and g out to an Ethpian fay.
ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY
Chigo-based Toto Tours’ 16-day trip to Ethpia is due to take place at the end of October and clus relig s such as the Debre Berhan Selassie Gondar and the ancient ve monasteri the mountas of relig groups the untry are urgg the Ethpian ernment to ban the pany om visg relig s, warng that gay travellers uld face vlence. Speakg at a prs nference on Monday, Dereje Negash, vice chairman of Silte Mihret Uned Associatn, an Ethpian Orthodox Church anisatn, said that gay travellers wh Toto Tours, “will be damaged, they uld even die”, if they vis Ethpia. It has also n tours to Uganda and Tanzania, both of which currently crimalise homosexual an email to AFP, Toto Tours print Dan Ware said the pany had been “terribly misunrstood”, and lled for protectn for the tour group om both the US State Department and the Ethpian tourism mistry.
”John Tanzella, CEO of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA), said the suatn showed how much work there was still to be done to achieve equaly, and that the travel dtry uld play an important role facilatg change. Earlier this year was crimalised Angola, jog 21 other Ain untri (acrdg to Amnty Internatnal) cludg Burka Faso, Republic of the Congo and Mali, where homosexualy has never been agast the law. KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep.
Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni. There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns.