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Contents:
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS AI AND THE MIDDLE EAST
- WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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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. But when he went home to Nigeria for the holidays as a teenager, a prits performed several forced exorcisms to "wash the 'gay vil' out, " he reunts now the preface for his new book, Limls Ains.
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There are untri – such as Nigeria, Mrania, Sudan, and Somalia – that impose bans, lengthy jail terms, ostracism, or a ath penalty on anyone displayg same-sex affectn and lbian, gay or transgenr inty or existence. This impos the ath penalty, life imprisonment or between 10 and 20 years prison for “attempted homosexualy” and “promotn of homosexualy”. It has been noted that US Christian fundamentalists have been behd anti-homosexualy bills wt Ain untri, unr the guise of protectg the fay.
TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS AI AND THE MIDDLE EAST
"There weren't any queer reprentatns around me growg up, and ma me feel alone; I was nvced I was gog to hell when I nnected my feelgs to the anti-homosexual teachgs the Bible, " Kiki says.
Uganda is a untry loted East Ai, and the muny has been h wh humane anti-LGBTQ+ laws – members of the LGBTQ +muny who are nvicted of “aggravated homosexualy” are subjected to the ath penalty. The 28 year-old is the founr of KAKYOPROJECT, a safe space for queer the anti-gay laws were put place, Kakyo grew up as a cur and open-md thker immersg herself arts and crafts, which fueled her sire for a project like KAKYOPROJECT.
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".
WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
"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. "The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.