LGBT Rights Bhutan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- BHUTAN GAYS CELEBRATE AFTER HOMOSEXUALY CRIMALISED
- BHUTAN BE LATT ASIAN NATN TO DIAL BACK ANTI-GAY LAWS
- GAY TRAVEL TO BHUTAN ADVICE PLEASE... - BHUTAN FOM
- BHUTAN OVERLAND: A GAY TRAVEL CULTURAL TOUR
- HOW GAY ARE BHUTANE GAYS?
BHUTAN GAYS CELEBRATE AFTER HOMOSEXUALY CRIMALISED
Bhutan, which measur progrs wh a 'gross natnal happs' metric, has crimalized gay sex and seen a rise LGBTQ acceptance and activism. * bhutan gay *
In neighborg India, the Supreme Court stck down one of the world’s olst bans on gay sex 2018. In Augt, Sgapore crimalized gay sex, although the ernment also spoke of safeguardg marriage as a unn between a man and woman. Bhutan’s penal — which clud the ban on gay sex — took effect 2004, four years before the untry held s first electns as part of a transn om absolute monarchy to nstutnal mocracy.
BHUTAN BE LATT ASIAN NATN TO DIAL BACK ANTI-GAY LAWS
A jot stg of both ho of Bhutan’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, makg the ty Himalayan kgdom the latt Asian natn to take steps towards easg rtrictns on same-sex relatnships. * bhutan gay *
”“It’s all happeng much more quickly than I anticipated, ” said Namgay Zam, the former director of the Journalists’ Assn. She me out to iends on social media when she was 15, and a few months ago announced to her fay she is gay. (Namgay Wangch / AFP/Getty Imag) “They had a strong reactn, but I want to give hope to people like me, who e om a hard nservative fay, ” she said.
GAY TRAVEL TO BHUTAN ADVICE PLEASE... - BHUTAN FOM
Bhutan gays celebrate after homosexualy crimalised * bhutan gay *
A jot stg of both ho of Bhutan’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, makg the ty Himalayan kgdom the latt Asian natn to take steps towards easg rtrictns on same-sex relatnships.
BHUTAN OVERLAND: A GAY TRAVEL CULTURAL TOUR
Lawmakers the Himalayan untry voted this week to amend a 2004 law that crimaliz “sexual nduct that is agast the orr of nature,” prevly treated as a reference to gay sex. * bhutan gay *
Sectns 213 and 214 of the penal had crimalized “unnatural sex, ” wily terpreted as homosexualy. “Homosexualy will not be nsired as unnatural sex now, ” Wangdi told Rters by phone om the Bhutane pal of Thimphu, whout givg tails. Neighborg India removed a centuri-old lonial prohibn on gay sex 2018, triggerg celebratn across the untry.
"A lot of cried, " said Tashi Tsheten of Rabow Bhutan that reprents the untry's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny. "We are a small and margalised muny and when our rights are discsed parliament, mak extremely happy, " Tashi law had never been ed, but Fance Mister Namgay Tsherg, who submted the remendatn to repeal sectns 213 and 214 of the penal , said they had bee "a sta" on the untry's Tsherg said the sectns had bee rndant sce Bhutan beme a nstutnal monarchy 2008. "There is no annual Gay Pri rally or other public display while Tashi said there was a general acceptance of transgenrs, pecially ral areas, they still face much discrimatn, pecially schools.
HOW GAY ARE BHUTANE GAYS?
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLawmakers the Himalayan untry voted this week to amend a 2004 law that crimaliz “sexual nduct that is agast the orr of nature, ” prevly treated as a reference to gay Dahal/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagHONG KONG — The kgdom of Bhutan pris self on maximizg “gross natnal happs, ” but don’t always feel that way to members of the untry’s L.