Kenya gay sex ban upheld by High Court Nairobi today disappotment for LGBT rights activists Ai - CBS News

Contents:

• GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA
• GAY RIGHTS KENYA: 'WHY OUR FIGHT ISN'T OVER'
• GAY KENYANS SENSE THEY MAY BE ON THE BRK OF A HISTORIC LEGAL TRIUMPH
• KENYA GAY SEX BAN UPHELD BY HIGH COURT NAIROBI DISAPPOTMENT FOR AI'S LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA

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. 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. "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.

GAY RIGHTS KENYA: 'WHY OUR FIGHT ISN'T OVER'

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". It is the culmatn of a -long legal battle, and a victory for the LGBTQ+ a majory cisn, the urt led that the non-ernmental ordatn board was discrimatory and ged on the muny’s nstutnal right to associatn by refg to register any of six nam proposed by the muny’s reprentativ, among them the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn and the Gay and Lbian Human Rights ernment body had said that permtg registratn would ntravene sectns of the untry’s penal that crimalise gay and lbian unns, cludg a Brish lonial law layg down a 14-year sentence for anyone nvicted of homosexual acts. “There may be many people who are stgglg wh different kds of sexual sir but they have not gone to urt for the whole natn to regnise them, ” stat the church, which has a large followg Kenya’s urban Kenyan church lked the urt’s lg to the recent cisn by the Church of England to wele same-sex upl “unrervedly and joyfully” Kaluma, an MP allied to the opposn, vowed to table a bill parliament to prohib homosexualy and impose stiffer penalti, cludg life prison, for those engaged same sex lg will be a btersweet victory for the LGBTQ+ muny Kenya, whose members have been subject to harassment, excln and vlence.

Image source, Gee Wafula/BBCKenya's High Court has led agast mpaigners seekg to overturn a law banng gay sex. More on this story:What has been like to be gay Kenya? I am source, Gee Wafula/BBCImage ptn, The law banng gay sex is specific to men but activists say that lbian, bi, trans and non-bary voic are val this nversatnBut there many dividuals om the muny who have experienced physil and verbal vlence and var forms of discrimatn.

Today, there are muni of gay, lbian, trans men and women, and non-bary dividuals across the untry who support, enurage and love one another. It was 2016 that mpaigners filed a se Kenya's High Court llg for the crimalisatn of gay sex.

GAY KENYANS SENSE THEY MAY BE ON THE BRK OF A HISTORIC LEGAL TRIUMPH

'The gay genie is out the bottle'The Kenyan gay genie was out of the bottle and out of the closet.

Image source, Gee Wafula/BBCImage ptn, Judg led May that the lonial-era law crimalisg gay sex is not unnstutnalSeated a stairwell, other iends and I listened to the lg beg read out. NAIROBI — Faced wh police shakedowns and abe, rejectn om relig nservativ and rampant discrimatn, Kenyan LGBT rights activists are challengg provisns of this former Brish lony’s Victorian-era penal that implicly outlaw gay a move that uld spawn pyt tactics across Ai and beyond, three Kenyan LGBT rights groups have petned a urt Nairobi to scrap those legal cls and grant LGBT Kenyans the same rights to privacy, equaly and digny as other Kenyans.

” In this view, which is often echoed by proment ernment officials, gay sex is unnatural, un-Ain and unnstutnal a untry that is 83 percent Christian and that c God s law and natnal LGBT rights groups have argued that the se is about basic human rights. “There are tim when the urt has to be the trailblazer and teach society, ” said Pl Mue, a renowned lawyer reprentg the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn. ” The prohibn has beviled LGBT people across the former Brish Empire for more than a most former Brish loni, Kenya has retaed portns of the crown’s Victorian-era penal , cludg vaguely word cls agast gay sex.

KENYA GAY SEX BAN UPHELD BY HIGH COURT NAIROBI DISAPPOTMENT FOR AI'S LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

In fact, more than half of the nearly 80 untri the world that crimalize gay sex hered those laws om the Brish Empire. Although few are sent to jail for vlatg Sectn 162, as the law banng gay sex is known, is monly ed as a pretext by police for harassment and male sex workers said terviews that their peers have been raped police statns and told was done to “rrect .

” Before a urt lg March, police here uld force those spected of havg had gay sex to unrgo anal examatns. Many gay men Kenya do not get tted out of fear that they will be prosecuted. Uganda, for stance, gaed ternatnal notoriety for a proposed law that would have imposed the ath sentence for gay sex.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

People who ll themselv “refuge” om both untri e to Nairobi to feel at least a b more aga, Kenya’s vice print, William Ruto, has said there is “no room” for gays Kenya.