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• ZAMBIA GAY RIGHTS ROW: US AMBASSADOR 'THREATENED' OVER JAILG OF UPLE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) TRAVEL TO ZAMBIA
• ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS
• US RELLS AMBASSADOR TO ZAMBIA AFTER GAY RIGHTS ROW
• FOR GAY MEN ZAMBIA, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS BANNED, SUICI IS A COMMON END
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• A GAY UPLE ZAMBIA HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS PRISON FOR THE CRIME OF LOVG ONE ANOTHER
• ZAMBIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
• ZAMBIAN GAY UPLE REARRTED AFTER TIPOFF BY RELATIV
• I HAVE BEEN AGAST GAYISM AND THAT STANCE HAS NEVER CHANGED-HH

ZAMBIA GAY RIGHTS ROW: US AMBASSADOR 'THREATENED' OVER JAILG OF UPLE

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Zambian Print Edgar Lungu said his ernment will pla to the US over the diplomat's mentsThe US ambassador to Zambia has said he has been threatened over his ments on the sentencg of a gay uple, epeng a diplomatic Foote said he was "horrified" by the jailg of Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba. A judge quashed an appeal agast their nvictn last week, sentencg them both to 15 years relatnships are outlawed Zambia, where Brish lonial-era laws on homosexualy still Foote implored the Zambian ernment to review the se and s homosexualy laws, but has sce faced a backlash for dog Monday Zambian Print Edgar Lungu rebed the ambassador, sayg his ernment will pla to the Tmp print's outrage was echoed by Zambian Foreign Mister Joseph Malanji, who said Mr Foote's remarks were "tantamount to qutng the Zambian nstutn" Foote, US ambassador to the southern Ain untry sce December 2017, rpond to the furore a prs statement on reer diplomat said he had ncelled schled appearanc at World Aids Day events on Tuday "bee of threats ma agast me" on social source, Uned Stat Department of StateImage ptn, Daniel Foote, US ambassador to Zambia, said threats have been ma agast him over his ments about the jailg of a gay uple"I was shocked at the venom and hate directed at me and my untry, largely the name of 'Christian' valu, by a small mory of Zambians, " Mr Foote said. "In turn, Mr Foote acced Print Lungu of terferg judicial affairs through statements "rejectg homosexual rights" an terview wh Sky News, Mr Lungu mounted a bative fence of Zambia's homosexualy laws.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) TRAVEL TO ZAMBIA

Bee we want to be seen to be smart, civilised and advanced and so on, " he may also be terted :Media ptn, The documentari look at the challeng facg gay people, as well as their efforts to fight back agast persecutnMore on this story. Although Zambia hered the laws om Bra, they remaed place after they gaed pennce 1964 and after crimalisatn of homosexualy Bra.

The Zambian ernment also do not perm advocy of LGBT rights, and 1995 the then Vice Print Christian Tempo announced that “if anybody promot gay rights after this statement, then the law will take ’s urse”, a statement followed by an orr by the Home Affairs Mister Peter Machungwa for police to arrt anybody advotg for homosexual rights.

This forced LGBT activists unrground, and rulted one of the foundg members of the Lbians, Gays, and Transgenr Associatn (LEGATRA) to flee the untry to South Ai after papers prted articl exposg his sexualy a highly flammatory then print Edgar Lungu affirmed the Zambian ernments overall posn to homosexualy, and 2013 was quoted as sayg “those advotg gay rights should go to hell” followg the arrt of two gay men. Arguments the Zambian prs and by nservative policians agast the legalisatn of homosexual activi range om argug Zambia’s stat as a Christian untry, that homosexualy is not permissible unr Zambian culture, or that homosexualy is said, while there is a sporadic arrt or prosecutn for homosexual activy the untry, we only know of this occurrg wh the Zambian populatn nservative ral areas. Zambian attus towards LGBT travellersNegative attus towards homosexualy are wispread throughout Zambia, and like ’s archaic laws the views have remaed largely unchanged recent years.

ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

The general public opn is that while homosexualy may be existence elsewhere, ’s alien Zambian society, and spe a plethora of evince to the ntrary homosexualy is nsired an immoral activy learned om wtern untri; an attu particularly prevalent more ral such nservative societi, public displays of affectn or overtly sexual behavur between any two people, whether heterosexual or LGBT, are disapproved of, and any clear sign of an LGBT relatnship would be perceived negatively. We would advise all of our travellers, gay or straight, to avoid overt displays of affectn or sexual behavur public, as the uld e recent years tourism has bee of creasg importance to Zambia as they try to diversify their enomy. While the legal and social background of homosexualy across Zambia as a whole is largely negative, the tourism dtry, often operatg the more remote and ral areas of the untry, has for s been exposed to and acceptg of an creasgly wi range of guts om different untri and backgrounds.

US RELLS AMBASSADOR TO ZAMBIA AFTER GAY RIGHTS ROW

Given that you are the top two elected lears of the Republic of Zambia, you need to openly and clearly expla why is that unr your watch, the space of one week, two embassi Laka hoisted LGBTQ+ flags on their premis, and NGOs that promote gay rights held a full nference Siavonga to strategize on crimalizg homosexualy Zambia.

The are ccial matters, pecially given that homosexualy is illegal Zambia; that no prev Zambian ernment ever permted anized homosexualy any space; and that gay rights are a matter that has surround the UPND om s opposn days. 1) In October 2019, onle media Zambia reported that Print Hichilema attend a meetg the rort town of Lake Como Italy of the Ai Liberal Network (ALN), an anisatn which promot liberal valu, cludg homosexualy (as mory rights). 2) On October 3, 2019, Col Stewart, wrg , reported a statement by UPND youth spokperson Gilbert Liswaniso: “We as UPND youths we wish to state that spe Print HH FULLY supportg gay rights, he remas an elr at the Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) and therefore a Christian.

As youths of UPND we endorse Print Hichilema’s stance and ask well-meang Zambians to fully rpect rights of gays and lbians people.

FOR GAY MEN ZAMBIA, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS BANNED, SUICI IS A COMMON END

It will therefore be proper, hont and scere for you, Print Hichilema and Vice-Print Nalumango, to state clear terms if the UPND supports and promot gay rights. You need to state clearly whether, now that you are the lg party, you will now pursue the crimalizatn of homosexualy and legalizatn of gay marriag and all that go wh that.

ARE YOU AWARE THAT IF YOU LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUALITY, YOU MUST DECRIMINALIZE PAEDOPHILIA (CHILD DEFILEMENT), CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, CHILD MARRIAGES AND CHILD SEX TOURISM? It is a child-moltg homosexual group that works day and night to give gays legal accs to children who are eight-years-old.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

” Apart om marchg most major homosexual paras across the Uned Stat, NAMBLA is workg to change laws to allow gays sexual accs to children. If Zambia embrac gay rights, you mt allow homosexuals accs to children and crimalize child filement, child porn, child marriage and child sex tourism where tourists vis a untry to have sex wh children. While homosexual rape happened secret lotns and on slave plantatns, ‘buck breakg’ or ‘bot burstg’ happened ont of the public or the entire plantatn personnel to make the slave feel ls of a man.

ARE YOU AWARE THAT IF YOU LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUALITY, YOU WILL DESTROY MARRIAGE, FAMILY, FATHERHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD AS WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THEM? In his 1969 wre-up Refuge om Amerika, A Gay Manifto, dismiss marriage (of mal and femal) and the fay as tools of social opprsn and sexual limatn.

A GAY UPLE ZAMBIA HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS PRISON FOR THE CRIME OF LOVG ONE ANOTHER

If Zambia ends up promulgatg gay rights, we will throne marriage and elevate prostutn as the ultimate exprsn of liberty. ARE YOU AWARE THAT IF YOU LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUALITY, THEN YOU WILL BE ON THE WAY TO LEGALIZING BESTIALITY, NECROPHILIA AND ALL SEXUAL PERVERSIONS CURRENTLY CONSIDERED DISORDERS? On October 5, 2011, the Brish newspaper The Telegraph said: “The gay rights movement has moved Amerin society to a pot where at least has to nsir legalizg thgs like polygamy and btialy.

ZAMBIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

” Bee of vehement promotn of gay rights, btialy (zoophilia) and necrophilia (sex wh the ad) are hot topics wtern parliaments and other platforms. ARE YOU AWARE THAT IN THE WEST HEMISPHERE WHERE HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS ARE RECOGNIZED, THE SOCIETIES THERE HAVE FAILED TO SETTLE WITH GAYS? Wrg on April 20, 2021, Dan Avery reported that suici rat among young people had been on the rise recent years, acrdg to the Centr for Disease Control and Preventn, but gay and bisexual youths were almost five tim as likely to have attempted suici as their straight peers.

If the gay liftyle has raised suici rat among youths of Ameri recent years, why should this be promoted to Ain youngsters who already face numero personal prsur? ARE YOU AWARE THAT IF YOU LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUALITY YOU WILL CREATE AN ETHICAL CRISIS AND DESTROY CLARITY OF MORAL THOUGHT IN ZAMBIA?

The nature of homosexualy is that do not require loyalty and fahfulns and outsi marriage bee there is no moral or spirual foundatn for such mment.

ZAMBIAN GAY UPLE REARRTED AFTER TIPOFF BY RELATIV

In their 1978 study, Homosexualy: A Study of Diversy Among Men and Women, published by Simon and Shter New York, Alan p. Weberg tablished that 28 per cent of homosexual men had more than 1000 partners their lifetim; 83 per cent timated they had had sex wh 500 or more partners. CAN YOU NAME ONLY ONE TRIBE IN ZAMBIA WHICH HOLDS INITIATION CEREMONIES FOR HOMOSEXUALS AND LESBIANS, AND WHICH HOLDS MARRIAGE CEREMONIES FOR THEM AND PROTECTS HOMOSEXUAL MATRIMONY?

One is the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, also known as the NARTH Instute, a US anizatn promotg nversn therapy, om s formatn 1992. NARTH nsirs homosexualy a disorr for which offers therapy and other regim that change sexual orientatn of dividuals who experience unwanted same-sex attractn.

I HAVE BEEN AGAST GAYISM AND THAT STANCE HAS NEVER CHANGED-HH

” NARTH disagre wh the global scientific nsens, the posn of the world’s major mental health anizatns, and scientific rearch which show that homosexualy is not a disorr.

Almost every time our urts have sentenced homosexuals to jail, wtern heads of state have phoned our stg prints to prott—qutng our sovereignty.

REUTERS/Lus Jackson/File PhotoLUSAKA (Rters) - Zambia’s print has pardoned a gay uple sentenced to 15 years prison November unr lonial-era sodomy laws a se that ed a diplomatic row wh the Uned Chataba, 39, and Steven Sambo, 31, were among nearly 3, 000 mat pardoned by Print Edgar Lungu last Friday to memorate Ai Freedom Day, acrdg to the ernment gazette. Washgton later whdrew Foote followg the row wh Zambian thori over the the past , several Ain untri have e to nflict over LGBT rights wh Wtern untri, many of who are major aid prev Obama admistratn cut aid to Uganda and Malawi over their anti-homosexual laws and polici, although Wtern nmnatn sometim provok Ain lears to takg more hardle announced plans October last year for a bill that would impose the ath penalty for gay sex, but later backtracked after major aid donors said they were monorg the suatn. Image source, Uned Stat Department of StateImage ptn, Daniel Foote was cril of the Zambian ernmentThe US has relled s ambassador to Zambia amid a diplomatic row after he cricised the imprisonment of a gay uple, embassy sourc have month, Daniel Foote said he was "horrified" that a judge had sentenced the men to 15 years prison after they were ught havg sex ernment acced him of tryg to dictate policy, and Print Edgar Lungu clared him persona non is a eply nservative society where homosexual acts are illegal.