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We are wrg to exprs our ncern about the number of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex (LGBTI) dividuals killed and vlently asslted over the past year circumstanc that suggt their sexual orientatn or inty was the reason that they were targeted, and to requt rmatn about steps that you and other members of the Natnal Task Team on Genr and Sexual Orientatn-based Vlence Perpetrated agast LGBTI Persons (NTT) have taken or are planng to take to addrs this surge.

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LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Explore our gay travel gui to South Ai featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more! * gay rights in south africa *

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.

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LGBT Rights South Ai: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights in south africa *

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. (Samantha Rers)The Unfulfilled Promise of LGBTQ Rights South AiThe untry has some of the most progrsive laws the world, but refuge fleeg homophobia elsewhere often fd a untry that is morally nservative, hostile, and profoundly ’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall TOWN, South Ai—On a recent foggy morng, Ndodana board a mib and traveled more than 20 to the Ivan Toms Centre for Men’s Health to llect his ee HIV meditn.

The gay-iendly clic li a predomantly whe neighborhood of Cape Town, wedged between a strip of rtrants, upsle hotels, and the V&A Wateront, a major tourist bimonthly trip is a long one and, on the surface, unnecsary: Mfuleni, the impoverished township where he rents a room, has s own HIV-treatment center.

In 2011, the jtice mistry tablished a task force to tackle the phenomenon of “rrective rape, ” routely meted out to lbian women and trans men to “cure” them of homosexualy. Rearchers and activists say that this unrcuts South Ai’s reputatn as a haven for gay rights, a narrative enthiastilly promoted by the ernment and so-lled pk-tourism operators. “They’ll ask you to prove that you’re gay, ” said Ethan Chigwada, a PASSOP staffer who ped om Zimbabwe 2015 after sufferg years of physil and sexual abe at the hands of fay members.

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Even then, the discrimatn ntued—nurs at the neart clic refed to treat him unls he brought his, Ndodana shar a small hoe wh four other refuge, three of whom intify as gay.

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