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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. 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.
A study nducted by the Natnal Aids and STI Control Council (Nasp) unvered a high number of homosexual men Kenya who had otherwise remaed hidn.
Acrdg to the survey, the three unti wh the high prevalence rate for HIV/AIDS also hosts to over 17, 000 unrver gay men. Nairobi unty acunts for 11, 000 members of the gay muny, Kiambu unty was found to have 3, 635 and was closely followed by Kisumu wh 1, 567 s and Mombasa wh 1, 469.
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Combed, the unti host 17, 672 of the timated 19, 175 gay men the untry - monly referred to as men who have sex wh men (MSM). Rearchers also found that members of the gay muny Kenya preferred to transact through onle works.
A lg by Kenya's Supreme Court allowg registratn of LGBTQ associatns has been hailed as a step forward gay rights. But homosexual relatns are illegal Kenya and one lawmaker is phg a bill to crease the maximum punishment for anyone found guilty to life prison, same s even ath.
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".
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A lg by Kenya's Supreme Court allowg registratn of LGBTQ associatns has been hailed as a step forward gay rights. But homosexual relatns are illegal Kenya and one lawmaker is phg a bill to crease the maximum punishment for anyone found guilty to life prison, same s even ath. Juma Majanga reports om Nairobi, Kenya. VOA footage by Amos Wangwa. * gay groups kenya *
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. 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".
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The se, monly known as ‘Repeal 162’ after one of the sectns of the law qutn, has been brought by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC), a member of our Partnership to Inspire, Transform and Connect the HIV rponse (PITCH) programme, alongsi the Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya and the Nyanza, Rift Valley and Wtern Kenya LGBTIQ Coaln. “People are no longer askg whether there are gay people Kenya.
The Penal Co crimaliz homosexual behavr and attempted homosexual behavr between men, which is referred to as “rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature”.
Stat of Homosexualy: Illegal for mal; not mentned for femal. GlobalGayz » Ai » Kenya. By David Kuria Foundg Director, Gay and Lbian Coaln Kenya (GALCK) Augt 2012 Here is update on the LGBT suatn Kenya for our LGBT muny recent years.
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Gay Kenya Contu Out and Proud 2012. Homosexualy Kenya ntu to be a ntroversial issue, but gay rights advot ntue their advocy for equaly and tolerance.