LGBT Rights Chad: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
Chad looks set to bee the 37th untry Ai to outlaw homosexualy after ernment misters voted to make same-sex relatns a crime punishable by up to 20 years cisn, yet to be ratified by the untry’s print, was nmned by human rights groups as another setback the stggle for gay rights on the ntent. Graeme Reid, director of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights programme at Human Rights Watch, said: “This is a setback for legal reform Chad – the revisns to the penal are tend to tegrate natnal law wh ternatnal law, whereas this provisn would do exactly the oppose. “By crimalisg homosexualy, Chad’s proposed penal is an stment of discrimatn, not of jtice, ” said s print, Kerry Kennedy.
“This is very good news, which is unfortunately marred by the crimalisatn of homosexualy, ” Florent Geel, Ai director of the Internatnal Feratn of Human Rights, was quoted as sayg by the Gay Star News webse. “Crimalisg homosexualy seems discrimatory, magogic and unter-productive, as may turn groups agast each other.
”Geel add that the reform of the penal had been preparatn for 10 years but the qutn of homosexualy, while nsired immoral, had never been an issue velopment is part of a wave of homophobia sweepg across Ai. Some observers believe may have been a rponse to the creased visibily and assertivens of gay liftyl and polics Ai, though US evangelil Christians have been wily blamed for stigatg dranian anti-gay legislatn Uganda and other untri.