Myanmar's First Public Gay 'Weddg' - WSJ

Contents:

• GAY PEOPLE IN MYANMAR CAN'T LIVE OPENLY. HERE'S WHY
• THIS GAY COUPLE WAS ABOUT TO GET MARRIED AFTER TWO YEARS APART. THEN A COUP HAPPENED
• ATRALIA NETWORK NEWSMYANMAR UPLE 'FIRST PUBLIC GAY WEDDG CEREMONY'
• BURME GAY COUPLE TO MARRY
• SORRY, GAYS, DUTERTE IS NO LONGER FOR SAME-SEX UNN
• GAY MYANMAR
• DUTERTE OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE PHILIPP, REVERSG CAMPAIGN PLEDGE
• MYANMAR'S FIRST PUBLIC GAY 'WEDDG'

GAY PEOPLE IN MYANMAR CAN'T LIVE OPENLY. HERE'S WHY

Homosexualy⚢✖ Male illegal, female uncertaGay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnnN/ADiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors? 3%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (8.

7%)Jtifiabily of homosexualy? Perceived Acceptance of Gay People? HistoryHomosexual activy Myanmar?

THIS GAY COUPLE WAS ABOUT TO GET MARRIED AFTER TWO YEARS APART. THEN A COUP HAPPENED

Homosexual activy Myanmar is male illegal, female illegal, female uncerta Myanmar crimaliz same-sex sexual activy unr Penal Co 1860, Sectn 377. Homosexual relatns rema illegal.

ATRALIA NETWORK NEWSMYANMAR UPLE 'FIRST PUBLIC GAY WEDDG CEREMONY'

Homosexual relatns are illegal Myanmar and discrimatn occurs employment discrimatn Myanmar? Illegal Homosexualy is donatns by MSMs Myanmar? N/A Homosexualy is illegal.

BURME GAY COUPLE TO MARRY

A police spokman said at the time that the ps had been performg a “public service” by preventg the group om Myat Tun, a human rights activist wh the Burme LGBT group Colors Rabow, tells The Huffgton Post that such “state-sponsored discrimatn” is a grave ncern for the LGBT muny Myanmar, where homosexualy is crimalized. Earlier this year, Myt Kyu, a polician Mandalay, me unr fire om human rights groups for “makg misrmed, discrimatory, and potentially flammatory statements about gay and transgenr people. ” Durg an Augt parliamentary bate, Kyu, who is the cy’s borr and secury affairs mister was quoted as sayg that the ernment was “nstantly takg actn to have the gays taed at police statns” before “tg” Malaysia, Myanmar -- also a former Brish lony -- still has Sectn 377 of the penal on s books.

SORRY, GAYS, DUTERTE IS NO LONGER FOR SAME-SEX UNN

”Limed public awarens about LGBT issu is another major problem facg the muny, Tun says, as is a arth of a 2013 terview wh the Myanmar Tim, a 28-year-old gay man named Phyo scribed the visibily of LGBT people Burme culture.

“When I was growg up, we didn’t know about homosexuals, ” he said. ”A 2014 Guardian report discsed how hostily agast homosexualy was unrmg the fight agast HIV/AIDS Myanmar -- which, acrdg to the World Health Organizatn, has one of Asia's hight HIV prevalence is keepg gay men hidn, makg them “hard to reach the most extreme sense, ” Eamonn Murphy, a UNAIDS untry reprentative, told the news outlet.

GAY MYANMAR

Myanmar's Natnal AIDS Programme said at the time that fewer than 30 percent of the timated 240, 000 gay men Myanmar had received HIV preventn servic.

Also on HuffPost:RelatedMyanmarmyanmar lgbtlgbtlgbt rightsGay Rights. Makg matters more plited, homosexualy is illegal unr the untry’s lonial-era sodomy laws, rryg a potential punishment of 10 years to life prison. While the crimal is rarely enforced, arrts aren’t unheard of: 10 gay men and trans women were reportedly taed by police outsi Mandalay’s Sedona Hotel 2013 and taken to a police statn where they were stripped, beaten, and forced to do naked og only beme more plex after Kse left Myanmar for a job Cambodia, before relotg to Thailand six months later.

DUTERTE OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE PHILIPP, REVERSG CAMPAIGN PLEDGE

A gay uple has married a lavish public ceremony Myanmar, an event said to be the first of s marriage do not enjoy any legal stat but followed the ctoms of other Myanmar weddgs.

Homosexual relatns are strictly prohibed Myanmar, and perpetrators of this act are liable to a jail term of up to 20 years. Wh an electn around the rner (featurg the untry’s first openly gay ndidate), activists Myanmar will soon be prented wh a renewed set of policymakers wh whom reform n be pursued. Elsewhere, however, there are some more worryg s, such as Bnei’s near-stalment of the ath penalty for homosexualy, public officials spoutg anti-LGBT vrl Indonia and Sgapore’s high urt quashg an attempt to crimalise male same-sex relatns.

This realy was ma clear followg the highly publicised suici of 26-year-old gay librarian, Kyaw Z W, who took his life June 2019 after beg forcibly outed and bullied by his lleagu.

MYANMAR'S FIRST PUBLIC GAY 'WEDDG'

While 's illegal to be gay there, we've found the culture to be far more acceptg than other untri Asia which ban homosexualy, cludg Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Maldiv, and India.

LGBTQ+ people are rarely out, the untry is voutly Buddhist, and most Burme people tend to thk of gay men as men who want to be women or drs like women. Some lols believe that those who nducted sexual misnduct a prev life are gay this one. A holdover om Brish lonial days, homosexualy is illegal Myanmar wh punishment cludg 10 years’ imprisonment.

Though the culture is welg overall, wh rpect to gay travelers 's more like tolerated, not so much enthiastilly embraced. Intimacy among Burme men is most often a sign of faiary, not of homosexualy.