Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury law | South Cha Morng Post

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• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury lawHong Kong anisers of the Gay Gam are unr prsure om some foreign officials and participants who say they will stay away om the November event to avoid “accintally” breachg the cy’s strict natnal secury ncerns have e on top of recent lls by some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong for the event to be ncelled, and protts by nservative only four months to go, the anisers have pledged to prs on, hopg to h their target of 3, 000 participants for the first edn of the gam to be held Gam ambassadors pose for a photo March. Unpackg Hong Kong’s natnal secury law, 3 years onTaiwan’s gam affiliate said earlier that would not take part the Hong Kong event, wh Kev Yang Chih-chun, print of the Taiwan Gay Sports and Movement Associatn, also cg worri about the natnal secury secury mister Rega Ip, nvenor of the cy’s key cisn-makg body, the Executive Council, dismissed the ncerns raised by those refg to travel to Hong Kong. The last edn was held Paris 2018, attractg 10, 000 Hong Kong event was meant to be held last year, but was postponed bee of the Covid-19 panmic, and the targeted number of participants was entire st would be fund by sponsorship, private donatns and participant fe, the anisers one-year untdown to the Gay Gam is held November.

”The natnal secury law targets secsn, subversn, terrorism and lln wh foreign Kong Gay Gam anisers refe to ncel event face of activists’ warngMeanwhile, there have been at least three recent stanc of nservative groups prottg agast the gam beg held Hong rint who preferred to rema anonymo told the Post he saw three lol women who gathered near the Polytechnic Universy mp on July 13 nounce the Gam.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

“There was a woman wh a megaphone sayg the Gay Gam and gay culture were poisong teenagers Hong Kong, ” he other protts volvg small groups happened this month, cludg one near the Legislative Council prottg at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR statn on July 12 had a flier claimg they had support om 15 groups, mostly associated wh anisers said they did not believe the protts signalled growg opposn. Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis.

His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN

Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River. “Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream, ” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.

But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East.

About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change. Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Courty of NetflixThe all-star st of Netflix’s new Queer Eye seri — a reboot of Bravo’s early 2000s seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — may be all fun when to makeovers, but they’re ser about makg a difference the “Fab Five” — Tan France, Jonathan Van Ns, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Antoni Porowski — speak openly on Queer Eye about their personal stggl and experienc wh homophobia and discrimatn.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers  the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep. Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni. There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns.