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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

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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.

ZAMBIAN PRINT PARDONS GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS

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.

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.

US RELLS AMBASSADOR TO ZAMBIA AFTER GAY RIGHTS ROW

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. 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.

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

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.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

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

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

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. ” 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?

ZAMBIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

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. 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.

ZAMBIAN GAY UPLE REARRTED AFTER TIPOFF BY RELATIV

” Bee of vehement promotn of gay rights, btialy (zoophilia) and necrophilia (sex wh the ad) are hot topics wtern parliaments and other platforms.

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

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.