Travel Safety Report: 20 Worst Plac For Gay Travelers In 2021

Contents:

• QATAR HAS TAKEN 'REAL STEPS' FOR SAFETY OF GAY FANS, SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• HERE ARE 7 UPG WORLD CHAMPNSHIPS AND WORLD CUPS UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
• WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND QATARI
• 70 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

QATAR HAS TAKEN 'REAL STEPS' FOR SAFETY OF GAY FANS, SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY

In the months sce, Mohamed lnched the non-prof Alwan Foundatn to advance LGBTQ+ rights across the Middle East and pecially Qatar, where he says that secury operativ filtrate gay muni orr to torture and erce members to rm on others. There are some people om really affluent fai that are gay and ’s almost public knowledge—but they’re really wealthy, affluent, and very nnected, so people jt don’t say anythg.

Image source, PA MediaQatar has taken "real steps" to ensure the safety of gay fans attendg the World Cup, Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly has Cleverley told the BBC he had had "difficult nversatns" wh Qatari unterparts and had been clear how serly the UK tak the build-up to the tournament has seen ncerns raised over LGBT as well as broar human rights Qatar. Asked whether Qatar was safe for gay fans, he said gay rights was an issue he had "brought up over a number of years" while workg wh the hosts preparatn for the event. "The Qataris know how serly we take this issue and they have taken real steps to ensure that gay football fans are safe and do feel secure and n enjoy the football.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed? In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe.

Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.

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Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.

HERE ARE 7 UPG WORLD CHAMPNSHIPS AND WORLD CUPS UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons".

(Beit) – Qatar Preventive Secury Department forc have arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment tentn, Human Rights Watch said today.

A Qatari gay man who has experienced ernment reprsn, cludg arbrary arrt, said that secury forc surveilled and arrted him based on his onle activy. Homosexualy is prohibed by Qatari law, and n lead to seven years is taboo the untry, and g out public is unthkable for the vast doctor Nas Mohammed earlier this year took the pletely unique cisn to e out to the media and publicly say that he is gay, to show the world that there are ed gay people Qatar, and to raise awarens of the suatn now that the world's spotlight is on the untry ahead of the football World Cup the untry later this year.

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

"The Proud Maroons" will help highlight how different is for LGBTQ people large parts of the rt of the world pared to how is Qatar, says Mohammed a prs to ntribute to velopmentNas Mohammed himself has not been to Qatar sce g out as gay, and the prs release the group scrib how unique is that they are a supporter's club that nnot have any members their they wre that they hope that this way they n help wh velopment the untry.

"The Proud Maroons" was created to shed light on the persecutn of LGBTQ people Qatar, and highlight what is happeng beyond the temporary PR msage that says "gay fans are wele, " they wre.

ARCHIVE: See the report wh Nas Mohammed:Javascript is disabledJavascript mt be enabled to play vioRead more about browser supportReport: Gay Qatari Nas Mohammed hop for help om David Beckham. Four transgenr women, one bisexual woman and one gay man were reportedly imprisoned whout charge, legal unsel, or trial, and forced to sign pledg promisg they would “cease immoral activy”. One FIFA legate, Director of Football Agast Racism Piara Powar, stated  September that the anisatn would try to secure legislative change: “Qatar wants to host the tournament at the start of a new , they will want to prent an ternatnally welg face and wh FIFA’s help we are sure will be possible to w over the Qataris so that they e to le wh the rt of the world, cludg other untri the Gulf and Middle East and change the law on homosexualy”.

GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP

Further reports October claimed that Qatari police forc regularly e gay datg apps to entrap men, subjectg them to sexual and physil vlence before arrtg them. ILGA’s State Sponsored Homophobia report observed that while “technilly is possible that Mlim men uld be put to ath for same-sex sexual behavurs… do not appear that any person has been executed for this reason or at all. In November, the Atralian footballer Josh Cavallo, who had recently me out publicly as gay, said that the fact that Qatar matas the possibily of the ath penalty for same-sex sexual activy is somethg he’s “very sred of and [he] wouldn’t really want to go to Qatar for that”.

The band’s lead sger is openly gay, and they received signifint public attentn 2017 after their display of support for LGBT rights at a ncert Egypt led to a crackdown agast the LGBT muny.

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND QATARI

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. "The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of...

70 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy". Earlier this year the the World Fencg Champnships were held Cairo, Egypt, where homosexualy is technilly legal, but moraly laws make gay sex problematic, acrdg to Human Rights Watch.

There are var upg ntental champnships that will be held untri banng homosexualy, cludg the 2023 Asian Football Conferatn champnship Qatar and the 2024 Ain Athletics Champnships slated for Cameroon. Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✖ State-enforcedNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. As a rult, gay marriage is not possible or regnized Qatar and LGBTQ+ dividuals are not afford the same rights and protectns as heterosexual upl.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

Blood donatns by MSMs Qatar is banned (fe ferral) (fe ferral) There are no specific laws or bans around MSMs donatg blood Qatar, however, homosexualy is illegal the untry. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. 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.

”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. 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.

”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. REUTERS/Fabriz Bensch/ Acquire Licensg RightsDOHA, Nov 19 (Rters) - A group of Arab iends livg Qatar's pal Doha met up over cktails and snacks last week, exchangg opns as they flicked through profil of gay men on datg apps Tr and phone of one flashed wh a msage om a suor around the rner. The man his 20s leapt up om the table, leavg to meet his date iends, who met up days before the soccer World Cup kicks off Qatar on Sunday, are part of a Doha gay scene that's managg to fly unr the radar a natn where same-sex relatns are illegal and punishable by up to three years of jail-time.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

"Rters spoke to four gay men Doha - the Wterner, two Qataris pl an Arab om elsewhere the regn - who said they lived the untry, a mag for foreign workers, bee they had well-paid jobs, pl iends or fay four spoke on ndn of anonymy due to ncern over possible punishment om thori. "It's not all sufferg, " said a 30-year-old gay Arab man who has lived and worked Doha for nearly 10 fact, the four exprsed worri about the wave of ternatnal cricism about gay rights Qatar brought by the World Cup, fearg they uld lose the eedoms they do enjoy should the opprobrium lead to a public backlash agast the LGBT+ muny once global attentn mov on.

"The men prent jt one snapshot of life for gay people the Gulf natn - and the four regnise their relative eedoms are a product of privilege; they n afford to live alone, host parti and meet partners high-end rtrants or nightclubs, where the strict l of Qatari society are often more 's not like that for members of Qatar's LGBT muny have reported beg taed, some as recently as September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. A Qatari official cricised the HRW report as ntag false rmatn and said the untry do not license or operate nversn Mohamed, a gay Qatari physician who has lived the Uned Stat for about a , weled the attentn the tournament has drawn to Qatar's rights rerd, sayg prompted him to speak out wily about his sexualy.

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9 ln populatn, wh the rt foreign workers, rangg om low-e nstctn workers to high-powered four men terviewed by Rters said that there were strong fancial and reer centiv to ridg the untry, addg that life for gay people there was better than some other plac the Middle ced Sdi Arabia and Iran, where men have been sentenced to ath for beg gay.. "Qatari anisers of the World Cup have warned visors agast public displays of affectn but say that everyone, no matter their sexual orientatn or background, is wele at the the tournament, medil practners will not ask patients about their extramaral sex, relign or any other stat, acrdg to the Yoef Al Maslamani, the healthre spokperson for the FIFA World the 12 years sce Qatar was named host of the 2022 tournament, the untry has faced tensifyg cricism over s rights rerd on laborers, women and the LGBT furore has been fuelled by ments om public figur cludg former Qatar player and World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman who told a German broadster that homosexualy was "damage the md".

After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts. Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.