Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry.
Contents:
- UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- NAMIBIAN PARLIAMENT APPROV ANTI-GAY LAW SPE URT LG
- WE AINS LOVE THE US, SO WHY N’T WE ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE?
UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?
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And Augt, lawmakers proposed a bill (still unr review) so extreme that simply sayg you are gay or lbian uld land you mandatory nversn therapy or prison for up to 10 years. Same-sex nduct is not illegal Rwanda, but thori there round up and arbrarily taed people regard as socially unsirable, cludg over a dozen gay and transgenr people, sex workers, street children, and others the months before a planned June 2021 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetg. Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris.
Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns. Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995. 1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal.
Same-sex relatns are legal only 22 of Ai's 54 untri and are punishable by ath or lengthy prison terms some natns, acrdg to a global review here by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) acunts for nearly half of the untri worldwi where homosexualy is outlawed, acrdg to the review, published March and updated December here last year.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
Same-sex relatns are legal only 22 of Ai's 54 untri and are punishable by ath or lengthy prison terms some natns, acrdg to a global review by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual... * gay marriage in africa *
A judge Nigeria on Tuday threw out a se agast 47 men charged wh public displays of affectn wh members of the same sex, endg what had wily been seen as a tt of the untry’s laws banng homosexual is the state of play on LGBT+ rights Ai:- The maximum penalty is ath four Ain untri: Mrania, Nigeria ( stat where sharia law is applied), Somalia and South Sudan. - Gabon’s Senate voted June to crimalise The ILGA’s ‘State-Sponsored Homophobia’ review (13th edn) and the State-Sponsored Homophobia: Global Legislatn Overview Update reports. Qu Karala, 29, a member of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (LGBTQ) muny and a sgle mother of one pos for a picture wh rabow lours at the offic of Rella Women's Empowerment Program, for LGBTQ rights advocy, after a Rters terview Kulambiro suburb of Kampala, Uganda April 4, 2023....
NAMIBIAN PARLIAMENT APPROV ANTI-GAY LAW SPE URT LG
Uganda's parliament passed a bill on Tuday makg a crime to intify as LGBTQ, handg thori broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimatn and mob vlence. * gay marriage in africa *
* In 2017, Chad crimalised same-sex acts what the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) lled "a worryg example of legal regrsn the regn". NAIROBI, March 22 (Rters) - Uganda's parliament passed a bill on Tuday makg a crime to intify as LGBTQ, handg thori broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimatn and mob relatns are legal only 22 of Ai's 54 untri, and are punishable by ath or lengthy prison terms some, acrdg to a global review by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) acunts for nearly half of the untri worldwi where homosexualy is outlawed, acrdg to the review, which was last updated December is the state of play on LGBT+ rights Ai:- The maximum penalty for same-sex relatns is ath four Ain untri: Mrania, Nigeria ( stat where sharia law is applied), and Somalia. - An Islamic sharia urt Nigeria's northern state of Bchi sentenced three men to ath by stong July last year after nvictg them on charg of engagg homosexualy.
[1/2]Ugandan legislators participate the bate of the Anti-Homosexualy bill, which propos tough new penalti for same-sex relatns durg a stg at the Parliament buildg Kampala, Uganda March 21, 2023. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".
WE AINS LOVE THE US, SO WHY N’T WE ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE?
"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.
The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.