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.
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Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * gay groups kenya *
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.
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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".
Neverthels, the lg is bter-sweet for Kenya's gay muny.
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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.
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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.