LGBTQ+ Nigerians Are Celebratg Pri Month Defiance of Anti-Gay Law

Contents:

• « TENTEN » EN ALGéRIE : 9E GAY PRI SUR LE WEB POUR FAIRE éVOLUER LA PERCEPTN L’HOMOSEXUALé
• BEG GAY ALGERIA
• TENTEN, LA GAY PRI ALGéRIENNE EN TOUTE DISCRéTN
• ALGéRIE : L GAY PRIS
• BEG GAY ALGERIA: ‘I’LL NEVER LIVE WH THE ONE I LOVE’
• GAY PRI
• BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
• LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW

« TENTEN » EN ALGéRIE : 9E GAY PRI SUR LE WEB POUR FAIRE éVOLUER LA PERCEPTN L’HOMOSEXUALé

Pour la nvième année nsécutive, l’anisatn Alouen, nsacrée à la défense s dros LGBT – lbienn, gays, bisexuels et trans – appelle l Algériens à manifter lr solidaré envers cette munté le 10 octobre soir. Car en Algérie, l articl 333 et 338 du pénal rennt passible « tout upable d’un acte d’homosexualé » et « toute personne qui a mis un outrage public à la puur » d’une pee prison pouvant aller jqu’à trois ans d’emprisonnement. (Beit) – An Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced 2 men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg, ” Human Rights Watch said today.

An Algerian lawyer volved the se told Human Rights Watch that the urt ed police reports scribg the ratns, flowers, and sweets ditive of a weddg celebratn, and the men’s supposedly gay appearance, as evince of guilt.

BEG GAY ALGERIA

“Algerian thori’ attack on personal eedoms is nothg new, but arrtg dozens of stunts based on their perceived sexual orientatn is a flagrant gement on their basic rights, ” said Rasha Youn, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Acrdg to a 2019 analysis by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), laws regulatg nonernmental anizatns Algeria make virtually impossible for anizatns workg on issu of sexual orientatn and genr inty to legally register. ’ The peculiar habs of sgers are part of the folklore of Algeria’s barets, rai mic venu wh a reputatn for alhol, prostutn and homosexualy that are tolerated as long as they rema on the margs of pole society.

Some acce the Wt of seekg to export a ‘gay inty’ that don’t exist Algeria; this may enurage homophobic behavur by the thori and nservative elements of society (1) Last July, some Arabic media plaed when the Brish embassy Algiers raised an LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and trans) flag support of the Pri London para. The poort are the most vulnerable, bee when public spac are the only place where you n have sex, there are many dangers: the police, homophobic attacks, theft, and health risks if you don’t have a ndom.

TENTEN, LA GAY PRI ALGéRIENNE EN TOUTE DISCRéTN

The hierarchy of the sex and the domance of men fluence even homoerotic relatnships;many men prent themselv as active toprerve their digny, and assert their virily by rejectg anythg that might be perceived as feme. The ncepts of gay inty and sexual orientatn that have served as a basis for claimg rights sce the rebelln of the patrons of the Stonewall gay club New York 1969 have worked for some, like Slimane.

ALGéRIE : L GAY PRIS

Though Algeria do not have reprsn on a sle parable to some Sub-Saharan untri, those nvicted of homosexual acts are subject to a fe of 500 to 2, 000 dars ($4 to $17) and between two and 24 months prison (the penalti are heavier if one partner is a mor). If the populatn together to fight agast the patriarchy and the relig taboos that (unequally) opprs the sexualy of all, then gay people will feel eer to assert their difference: 10 October has been LGBT Day Algeria sce 2007 (6), but is only celebrated on social works. Chaque année, elle t célébrée le 10 octobre – d’où son nom "TenTen" (10/10) – jour anniversaire la naissance du sultan ottoman Sélim Ier (1470-1520), qui, dans s écrs, a fa le réc son homosexualé.

BEG GAY ALGERIA: ‘I’LL NEVER LIVE WH THE ONE I LOVE’

L’article 338 du Co pénal, qui qualifie l’homosexualé "crime ntre l bonn mœurs", stipule asi: "Tout upable d’un acte d’homosexualé t puni d’un emprisonnement ux mois à ux ans et d’une amen 500 à 2 000 DA (dars algériens)". >> À lire ssi: À Washgton, Barack Obama dénonce l’adoptn lois anti-gays dans certas pays et Pour l gays en Aique, c’t souvent la se prisonDans un tel ntexte, on ra pris que la discrétn t mise, chacun craignant s représaill si son homosexualé vena à être révélée.

Unr Algerian law, Amelle* is crime: a sexual preference for orr to avoid the risk of a fe or prison sentence, the 27-year-old long ago cid to renounce her right to a love, a gay rights associatn Algeria, marked the seventh nsecutive “LGBT day” on Thursday, October 10, llg for Algerians at home and abroad to light a ndle support of homosexuals the North Ain untry. So, like many gay Algerians, Amelle is planng a “rabow marriage” – the term ed to scribe a unn between a gay man and a lbian that allows them to avoid spicn of their te sexual preference, brg an end to fay prsure, and pursue same-sex sexual relatnships if they so choose. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).

In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

GAY PRI

The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.

BEG GAY ALGERIA TODAY

In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. ”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny, ” the statement ntued.

Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy. Même si cette mobilisatn rte limée et moraire, elle marque une pture avec le déni agrsif l’inté homosexuelle qui prévala jqu’alors, dans l ix religix naturellement, mais ssi dans l cercl soi-disant « progrsist ».

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

Partout, ell s’opposent x mpagn officiell diffamatn qui associent la supposée « perversn » homosexuelle à un plot l’étranger (p avant la présintielle algérienne décembre 2019, le mistre l’Intérir a asi accé l nttatair d’être s « traîtr, homosexuels et mercenair »). The Algerians of the Maghreb and the North Ains livg France and Belgium e together thought by lightg a ndle at home, their hoe, their bedroom, discreetly, so as not to get ught by anti-LGBT or homophobic parents, neighbours or others.

GLA (“Gays et Lbienn d’Algérie” – gays and lbians of Algeria) is a fom found by a group of iends whose objective is to une the muny, promote the activi of associatns directed toward LGBT’s, and discs matters of tert, regardls of the sex, race, relign and pecially the sexual orientatn of members. L Algériens et Algérienn du Maghreb, l brs France et Belgique se retrouvent par la pensée en mettant à brûler une bougie chez x, à la maison, dans lrs chambre, discrètement pour ne pas se faire pcer par l parents, voiss ou tr anti LGBT ou homophob.

A ( Gays et Lbienn d’Algérie) t un fom fondé par un groupe d’amis, dont l’objectif t rassembler la munté, promouvoir l activés s associatns à orientatn LGBT, échanger sur l sujets qui l térsent, quel que so le sexe, la race, la relign, et surtout, l’orientatn sexuelle s membr. Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW

By Pelumi SalakoILORIN, Nigeria, June 23 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) — YouTuber Victor Emmanuel knows first-hand how tough life is for people who are openly gay Nigeria, where LGBTQ+ relatnships and even same-sex displays of affectn are year, he was kidnapped by seven men who blackmailed, extorted, and tortured him for two days an attack that has sce left him nstantly lookg over his shoulr. "Nigeria is a eply relig untry, where many reject homosexualy as a rptg Wtern 2014, the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act was signed to law, which bars not only gay relatnships but also any public sign of same-sex affectn or membership of LGBTQ+ groups, wh punishments of up to 14 years prison.

Gay sex is illegal more than half of Ain untri, acrdg to global LGBTQ+ rights tracker Equalx, although Gabon, Kenya, and Botswana have all crimalised same-sex relatns recent spe the risks, activists are phg to exprs themselv and mand change this June, a month which is marked around the world wh LGBTQ+ Pri ralli and parti.

The legislatn amounts to "refully nstcted state vlence" which "exacerbat queerphobia and prevents om havg a muny, " said Kayo Ani Somtochwu, founr of the Queer Unn for Enomic and Social Transformatn (QUEST) Mistry of Jtice and the police force did not immediately rpond to requts for 2018, a group of 47 men were arrted and later charged for allegedly jog a gay club, a se that drew ternatnal outcry and was wily seen as a tt of the men said they were at a birthday party and the se was thrown out by a judge due to the "lack of diligent prosecutn. "But LGBTQ+ people are growg creasgly vol and visible, wh the ter providg a space for gay-iendly films, talk shows, and rights groups barred om formally registerg as an anisatn unr the same-sex marriage law, most anisg and support groups take place onle.