INTERVIEW-Gay Mrian men seek to overturn anti-gay law on paradise island | Rters

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• INTERVIEW-GAY MRIAN MEN SEEK TO OVERTURN ANTI-GAY LAW ON PARADISE ISLAND
• ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
• MRI LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS NEWS MONORG

INTERVIEW-GAY MRIAN MEN SEEK TO OVERTURN ANTI-GAY LAW ON PARADISE ISLAND

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Current statSce Dec 29, 1838Male illegal, female legal Homosexual activy is illegal Mri. Unregnized Gay marriage pendg. NAIROBI, Oct 1 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Treatg gay sex as a crime promot homophobia and vlence agast LGBT+ people, the lead plaant a bid to overturn a lonial-era law agast sodomy Mri said on Ahmad Fokeerbux, founr of Mrian LGBT+ group Young Queer Alliance, is one of four young gay men who are challengg the archaic law the untry’s top urt.

ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS

Homosexualy is taboo Mri, a ty island of 1. “Gay and bisexual men face a lot of physil and verbal vlence society, ” 29-year-old Fokeerbux told the Thomson Rters Foundatn an terview. ”While the law is rarely enforced, he said, enurag anti-gay attus and tolerance, stigma and prejudice agast sexual year, the island natn was forced to ncel s Gay Pri event due to ncerns of vlence after ath threats om anti-gay rights mpaigners, some of whom quoted the 1838 law, said and the three other platiffs filed their applitn to repeal the law, known as sectn 250, Mri’ Supreme Court on Sept.

“We know that homophobia won’t end wh the law beg scrapped. While the law is applible irrpective of sexual orientatn, is broadly perceived as crimalisg gay men. Prr to Brish lonisatn ( the untri), liberal attus towards sex were wily held … which are now characterised by Wtern media as the worst plac the world to be gay.

MRI LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS NEWS MONORG

Many of the untri, cludg Mri, still crimalise homosexualy unr the exact laws that were imposed by Bra durg the lonial era. An anti-LGBTQ billboard that said “cursed is he who practic the ed of the people of Lot (homosexualy) was erected Port Louis, the Mrian pal, a few days ago. Advocy groups: Ethpian ernment’s anti-gay rhetoric spurs onle attacks.

An advocy group Ethpia has sharply cricized ernment stutns for homophobic statements they say have spurred onle attacks agast LGBTQ and tersex people.

“In a dramatic expansn of the threat of vlence; there have also been lls to kill, burn, and beat up fai of those of who are openly LGBTQIA+ and live abroad orr to make their fai unrstand the ep shame and wound that Ethpian homophob the diaspora feel due to the outspokenns of those openly LGBTQIA+ dividuals, ” reads a statement that Hoe of Guramayle issued this week.

A recent study found 97 percent of Ethpians believe homosexualy is a “very harmful way of life that society should not accept” and anyone a same-sex relatnship should be punished. Country’s print May signed Anti-Homosexualy Act. The World Bank Group on Tuday announced has spend new loans to Uganda rponse to the untry’s Anti-Homosexualy Act.

“Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act fundamentally ntradicts the World Bank Group’s valu. The law that Print Yoweri Meveni signed on May 29 ntas a ath penalty provisn for “aggravated homosexualy. Then-World Bank Print Jim Yong Kim 2014 postponed a $90 ln loan to the Ugandan ernment rponse to Meveni’s cisn to sign a versn of the Anti-Homosexualy Act that did not nta a ath penalty provisn.

The nference also sought to promote LGBTQ and tersex rights Ai and highlight the severy of homophobia and transphobia on the ntent.