Zimbabwe: Gay Couple Arrted

Contents:

• ZIMBABWEAN URT SENTENCE GAY UPLE TO ONE-YEAR HOE ARRT
• ZIMBABWE COURT SENTENC GAY COUPLE TO ONE YEAR HOE ARRT, DEATH PENALTY IF ONE DON’T GET PREGNANT
• ZIMBABWE: GAY COUPLE ARRTED
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BANNED ZIMBABWE BUT URT-ORRED ATH THREAT AGAST GAY UPLE IS A HOAX
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• ZIMBABWEAN UPLE MAND GAY RIGHTS
• ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

ZIMBABWEAN URT SENTENCE GAY UPLE TO ONE-YEAR HOE ARRT

A Zimbabwean High Court has sentenced a gay uple to a year of hoe tentn. The Gay uple is set to give birth while unr hoe arrt for the followg year or face the ath penalty. A spected gay uple, one of whom was wearg female apparel cludg a skirt, wig and bloe has been arrted Kadoma.

Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St.

Blogs and social media posts several Ain untri claim that a Zimbabwean judge sentenced a gay uple to 12 months hoe arrt and orred them to produce a child that time, failg which they would receive the ath penalty. This is false: while Zimbabwe matas some of the strictt laws erng same-sex marriage and gay terurse, AFP Fact Check found that the “judge” do not exist and the purported lg is a hoax.

ZIMBABWE COURT SENTENC GAY COUPLE TO ONE YEAR HOE ARRT, DEATH PENALTY IF ONE DON’T GET PREGNANT

“High urt Zimbabwe has orred a newly married gay uple to be put unr hoe arrt for 12 months and if by the end of the perd none of them will be pregnant, the urt further orred a ath penalty (sic), ” the post reads. Mory rights ZimbabweZimbabwe is one of about 30 Ain untri that ntu to uphold anti-LGBQTI+ laws, even after s former print Robert Mugabe – famo for hate speech agast gay people – stepped down 2017.

ZIMBABWE: GAY COUPLE ARRTED

A map showg worldwi sexual orientatn laws by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, ILGAThe claim fails to acknowledge that people of the same sex are nstutnally prohibed om marryg one another. ”Proment lol mory-rights associatn Gays and Lbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) told AFP Fact Check that the story is false. “That judge is not one we know of, also there are no legal reports speakg to a 'newly-married' gay uple, ” GALZ said.

”Gay upl om USOne of the imag ed the false claims was taken 2017 the months leadg up to the weddg of popular US-based Instagram uple, Domic and Nick Spence, and is unrelated to Zimbabwe. Source: Zimbabwe no safe haven for Homosexuals – NewsDay Zimbabwe November 21, 2019.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

Ten percent of Zimbabwe’s populatn are timated to be gay or lbian – they are simply born like this. However, only few dare to disclose their sexual orientatn as homosexualy is largely rejected by the Zimbabwean society and nsired a taboo.

Acrdg to popular belief, however, homosexualy is a crime.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BANNED ZIMBABWE BUT URT-ORRED ATH THREAT AGAST GAY UPLE IS A HOAX

The natnal media exacerbat this attu Zimbabwe wh homophobic statements by ernment lears ntributg to a misrmed, highly discrimatory soc-polil environment. It leav the sexual mori a quandary, however, bee is silent on whether or not gay or lbian love affairs are legal. The marriage bill that has brought up the ncept of civil partnerships has been precise fg as a relatnship between a man and a woman term on s own beg terpreted ternatnally to mean people same sex relatnships has ed the muny and bet to want to remove notg that bee has a gay ternatnal terpretatn th do not uphold the untri moral standards.

There’s this one day I will never fet, I was the Harare Garns Park wh a woman I was datg, and three men approached and urated on llg Ngochani (a rogatory name given to gays/lbians Zimbabwe). The police said they uld not do anythg mentng that my story was a b plited to open up a docket for gays/lbians here Zimbabwe” she add. Homosexual persons often experience vlence and margalisatn due to their sexual orientatn.

Acrdg to ZimRights, a human rights group, there were approximately 760 reports of attacks on homosexual universy stunts 2018. Chterfield Samba leads the Gays and Lbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a civil-society anisatn. He says that “spected gay stunts are beg tracked down by their anti-gay lleagu clubs, bars and even their hom.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Zimbabwe is one of the non-acceptg untri the world for gay, lbian and transgenr people. Acrdg to a 2018 survey by the non-ernmental anisatn GALZ (Gays and Lbians of Zimbabwe), 50% of gay men Zimbabwe had been physilly asslted, and 64% had been disowned by their fai.

Some fai ral areas assume that their gay son or lbian dghter is posssed by Satan or mons. A young man om wtern Zimbabwe, who prefers to stay anonymo, reunts that people his village, believed that “even wh a handshake, I would transfer homosexualy”.

ZIMBABWEAN UPLE MAND GAY RIGHTS

At some pot he was asked by an AP reporter if Zimbabwe had no gay rights this was his rponse: “They have no rights whatsoever! “They say I am the reason why the Biblil towns Sodom and Gomorrah were stroyed, ” an elrly gay man reunts. Homosexualy is outlawed 35 Ain untri and punishable by ath two untri, Mrania and Sudan, as well as some areas of Somalia and Nigeria, acrdg to Amnty Internatnal.

ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

Print of Zimbabwe tells gay upl to have a baby or they face jail "“I should like to shut them up some room and see if they get pregnant.

WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA — Gay rights activists Namibia are cryg a Supreme Court cisn that will effectively ny cizenship to a child born through surrogacy to a same-sex uple South Ai. The lg Monday by the Supreme Court of Namibia overturned a lower urt cisn that orred the ernment to procs a gay uple’s cizenship applitn for their child.

“We also know that homophobia, bi-phobia and trans-phobia will be experienced when the fay go back to Home Affairs bee now you have to go back to the person you have challenged the urt. Namibia’s Supreme Court heard other s this month volvg homosexualy. In another, a Namibian man is askg for the repeal of the untry's law, argug that is an vasn of privacy and discrimatory to people homosexual relatnships.

LGBTQ rights have divid public opn a untry where the majory of the populatn intify as Christian and homosexualy is still regard as taboo and abnormal. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.