Kenya LGBTQ Communy In Fear After Backlash on Gay Rights Rulg

Contents:

• LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL
• GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA
• KENYA LGBTQ COMMUNY IN FEAR AFTER BACKLASH ON GAY RIGHTS RULG

LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL

A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.". "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

Amid the ongog Strategic Tra and Invtment Partnership (STIP) talks between Kenya and the Uned Stat of Ameri, 49 US lobby groups have e out to ask the US ernment to halt the negotiatns until Kenya revok any anti-gay laws the untry. The Fay Protectn Bill proposed by Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma seeks to crimalize homosexualy, same-sex marriag, and LGBTQ passed, the bill will crimalise the promotn, recment, and fundg of homosexualy and a letter addrsed to Uned Stat Tra Reprentative Ambassador Kathere Tai, who's currently Kenya for the STIP negotiatns, the lobby groups ll on the Bin admistratn to halt the negotiatns until Print William Ruto veto any anti-gay law. The lobby groups attributed their ll for actn on that the proposed anti-gay bill go agast the prcipl and valu that the Bin admistratn stands for.

GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA

Peter Kaluma, through his bill further wants the state to lim rights to assembly, monstratn, associatn, exprsn, belief, privacy, and employment childre stutns rpect of homosexual nvicts. The bill if passed will see the penalty imposed on homosexuals rangg om imprisonment of at least 10 years to ath. Homosexualy punishable by ath some Ain natnsAttu ntrasts wh progrsive stanc on women, refugeA member of the South Ain Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr and Intersex muny  Durban, South Ai.

Image source, Getty ImagKenyan thori were wrong to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn, the untry's Supreme Court has at the same time strsed that gay sex remas judg led three-to-two that the untry's NGO board was wrong to stop the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC) om registerg Kenya's hight urt, the Supreme Court's lg nnot be their judgment, the judg led that " would be unnstutnal to lim the right to associate, through nial of registratn of an associatn, purely on the basis of the sexual orientatn of the applints". Neverthels, the lg is bter-sweet for Kenya's gay muny.

Laws which were troduced unr Brish lonial le mean that is crimal to have sex that "is agast the orr of nature", which n rult up to 14 years May 2019, Kenya's high urt rejected an attempt to overturn the 's judgement ends a 10-year legal battle which began 2013 when Eric Gari, the former executive director of the NGLHRC, challenged the head of Kenya NGO Coordatn Board's refal to perm him to apply to register an NGO unr a name ntag the words gay or lbian.

KENYA LGBTQ COMMUNY IN FEAR AFTER BACKLASH ON GAY RIGHTS RULG

"The lg at a time when homophobic rhetoric has been risg Kenya. Members of the LGBTQI+ muny have been harassed by police, subjected to body examatns to "prove" gay sex, and openly sulted on social media and public spac. Some say they have even been nied healthre and thrown out of rental ho for beg gay.

On the day of the judgement, Member of Parliament Gee Peter Kaluma filed an official notice that he tend to troduce a bill which would jail for life people nvicted of homosexualy or the promotn of Friday's Supreme Court lg arguably torpedo any attempts to legally harass openly gay people wh new laws, Mr Kaluma n still rally MPs to crease jail terms for gay is also illegal to have gay sex neighbourg Uganda, where Mlim lears ed Friday prayers to preach agast head of the untry's Mlims, Mufti Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje, lled on the thori to enact even tougher laws agast same-sex was speakg at the Old Kampala mosque the pal, Kampala, where hundreds had gathered for Friday prayers. Earlier the week, the Uganda Mlim Supreme Council circulated a letter to all clerics unr s associatn gazettg Friday as the day to rry out peaceful protts agast homosexualy clerics were asked to prepare sermons nmng same-sex relatns and extend the same msage to the media and the event, the protts were only held the eastern cy of rights activist Frank Mugisha scribed the protts as dangero, sayg they uld crease s of vlence agast those who intify as has been a recent surge homophobic sentiment the week, Print Yoweri Meveni said Uganda would not embrace homosexualy and that the Wt should stop tryg to impose s views and "normalise" what he lled "viatns". By CountryBy Year FoundA list of LGBT anizatns and groups and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) The Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) is foced on promotg regnn, acceptance and fend the terts and rights of LGBTI anizatns and their members…Ishtar MSMIshtar MSM is a Communy Based Organizatn Kenya who aimed at attag full sexual health rights and social well beg for Men who have sex wh men (MSM) Kenya.