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Contents:

• BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.
• TANZANIA: MIXED MSAG ON ANTI-GAY PERSECUTN
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS TANZANIA
• GAY TANZANIA TRAVEL GUI
• UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?
• EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
• TANZANIAN LEAR LNCH ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN, EXPECTS TO ROUND UP HUNDREDS
• TANZANIA STANDS FIRM ON AID-GAY RIGHTS SPAT WH UK
• TANZANIA GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS NEWS TOPICS
• TANZANIA LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS NEWS MONORG

BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.

“I’m gay and I want to vis the plac, ” said Darren Burn, the founr of Out of Office, an clive luxury travel pany.

TANZANIA: MIXED MSAG ON ANTI-GAY PERSECUTN

Married gay men have the most spendg power, wh a median hoehold e that is more than $25, 000 higher than their straight and lbian so, beg out and gettg out n be at odds a world where many plac are hostile — and sometim outright dangero. Uganda notably jt enacted a law llg for life prison for anyone nvicted of havg gay sex, and some s even ath. I haven’t heard of anyone havg issu, ” said Bryan Herb, -founr of Zoom Vatns, which operat small tours untri such as Kenya, the Maldiv, and Moroc, all plac where gay sex n brg prison terms.

“I wouldn’t say that bee the laws target only homosexual acts, that transgenr people are safe, ” said Mr. ”Pk money a gray ScurfieldMany untri may jt pend on the flux of tourist dollars so much that they’re willg to give tourists — whether straight or gay — special tourism dtry is a top ntributor to Kenya’s gross domtic product and acunts for more than half a ln jobs Moroc.

Hospaly also driv the enomy the Maldiv, where three lol men recently received prison sentenc for havg homosexual relatns, while dozens more have been vtigated. ”He said that years ago, when he first started takg gay Amerins abroad, wasn’t unmon for his quiri to suppliers to go unanswered.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS TANZANIA

“We would love the opportuny to work wh your anizatn to create tailored erari for your LGBTQ+ travelers Tanzania, ” read a recent email he received om a small safari a lonial-era law, Tanzania punish nsensual gay sex wh up to life prison, and April, the ernment shut down thoands of webs and social media acunts lked to gay groups and people.

When travelg to Tanzania, for example, clients are advised to practice discretn sce “even heterosexual PDAs are owned upon, ” referrg to public displays of page for Out Adventur’ tour to Egypt, cludg a Nile River cise and snorkelg the Red Sea startg at $5, 495 per traveler, explas that “gay datg apps should be avoid” and disurag clients om tryg to participate the “unrground gay scene” of the larger Egyptian thori have been reported to harass and entrap members of the L. Sharp said, “but we don’t want to put anyone the lol queer muny a suatn where they uld be at risk bee they’re seen wh this group of obv homosexuals. Anizatns untri where beg gay is illegal, and is currently givg $50 per traveler to Rabow Railroad, a nonprof anizatn that helps L.

More about Aara TiefenthälerA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Where Beg Gay Is Illegal, Travel Is Complited. Pl Makonda, the regnal missner of Dar Salaam, lnched an anti-gay panic by announcg plans for a gay “round-up” 2018.

GAY TANZANIA TRAVEL GUI

When Jam Wanra Ouma is asked what giv him hope as a gay man livg the east Ain natn of Tanzania, he n’t thk of anythg. Ama Mollel, a member of the untry’s parliament, acced the statn of vlatg Tanzania’s “morals and ethics by glorifyg gayism. One of the key facets of that mpaign was a ban on lubritn as a way to prevent gay men om engagg anal sex.

Although HIV preventn anizatns had succsfully partnered wh the Tanzanian ernment unr prev admistratns, Magufuli ratnalized the new party le an famo speech claimg that “even ws disapprove” of homosexualy. “If there’s a homosexual who has a Facebook acunt or wh an Instagram acunt, all those who ‘follow’ him, is very clear that they are jt as guilty as the homosexual, ” Makonda said. “I would like the ernment of Tanzania to allow [LGBTQ people] accs to health servic, ” says Medard, a 38-year-old gay man.

UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?

Tanzania’s anti-gay crackdown is part of s “larger crackdown on fundamental human rights, ” says Adotei Akwei of Amnty Internatnal. Wenty Ismail, a longtime LGBTQ activist Tanzania, says a gay man me to him the middle of the night after he was evicted by his landlord. (Nairobi) – Tanzania’s Mistry of Foreign Affairs’ disavowal of cendiary anti-gay ments by a Dar Salaam official is a posive velopment, but will mean ltle unls the ernment reforms s laws and polici that discrimate agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today.

On November 4, 2018, followg major ternatnal news verage of the flammatory remarks, Tanzania’s Mistry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement that a proposed anti-gay mpaign by Regnal Commissner Pl Makonda, whose district clus Dar Salaam, reprented “his opn and not the posn of the ernment. However, the same day, activists told Human Rights Watch that police had arrted people Zanzibar on homosexualy-related charg. Makonda triggered panic among LGBT people on October 31 when he held a news nference announcg plans to round up spected gays and subject them to forced anal examatns and nversn therapy.

He said he would arrt or chase out all the gay men the cy, proclaimg, “In Dar Salaam, homosexualy is not a human right.

EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?

” Makonda urged cizens to report gay men to the police, claimg he had already llected hundreds of nam.

Tanzania’s anti-homosexualy law is among the world’s harsht, prcribg 30 years to life prison for “rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature. They round up spected gay men the streets, reportedly subjectg some to forced anal exams, a discreded method of “provg” homosexual nduct that the Uned Natns and the Ain Commissn on Human and Peopl’ Rights have nounced as torture. The thori shut down gay-iendly health clics and rtricted accs to water-based lubrint, an HIV preventn tool.

TANZANIAN LEAR LNCH ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN, EXPECTS TO ROUND UP HUNDREDS

At a July 2016 rally, he threatened to arrt gays and their social media “followers” and to ban anizatns that “promote homosexualy. ” In his news nference on October 31, 2018, Makonda said he had tablished a task force to track down gay men, sex workers, pornographers, and people nductg dulent fundraisers on social media. His mpaign appeared to have been prompted by a viral vio of explic heterosexual sex, but the bulk of his 30-mute news nference centered on stirrg up homophobic sentiment.

He threatened to “tt” gay men for homosexualy, provi unselors for those who want to “get out of homosexualy, ” and jail others for life, sayg his task force would start s work on November 5. The Mistry of Foreign Affairs statement is vague on what steps Tanzania will take to uphold s ternatnal mments, which Tanzania’s anti-homosexualy law and acts of anti-LGBT reprsn clearly vlate. Generally, beg gay is still largely a taboo subject, lbianism doubly so, and many lols take the attu that 's a foreign, un-Ain practice.

Neverthels, bee of this, most lols the tourism dtry do accept that non-Ain visors may be gay, so you'll receive no discrimatn.

TANZANIA STANDS FIRM ON AID-GAY RIGHTS SPAT WH UK

N body on the HIV panmic has raised ncerns over a spike the disease among gay and transgenr people eastern and southern Ai due to harsh anti-homosexualy laws. “HIV cince has rced substantially by 73 percent sce 2010 among adult men aged 15–49 years, but is not clg among gay men and other men who have sex wh men, ” reads the 196-page UNAIDS report.

TANZANIA GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS NEWS TOPICS

HIV prevalence 2022 around the world was 11 tim higher among gay men aged 15-49 years, pared to heterosexual men wh the same age bracket and 14 tim higher among trans people. The disease remas rife among gay men and trans people and efforts to bat among the aforementned populatn ntu to lag bee of stigma and discrimatn accsg equable HIV re om anti-homosexualy laws Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and other untri. A recent survey 10 sub-Saharan Ain untri showed HIV prevalence among gay men was five tim higher untri that crimalize nsensual same-sex relatnships pared Rwanda and South Ai and other natns that don’t.

The survey also not HIV prevalence was 12 tim higher untri that e anti-homosexualy laws to prosecute gay men, pared to natns whout such prosecutns. The UNAIDS report pots out gay men and trans people are left out of HIV treatment programs eastern and southern Ai, where verage among adult women stands at 86 percent and men at 78 percent.

TANZANIA LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS NEWS MONORG

Uganda this year enacted the Anti-Homosexualy Act wh a ath penalty provisn for “aggravated homosexualy” and severe punishment for anizatns the ernment claims promote homosexualy. -fund HIV treatment clic Kampala that normally se dozens of patients a day almost serted bee clients, many of them gay, feared arrt. UNAIDS, neverthels, s report raised ncerns over an crease homophobia and transphobia untri that prompt the troductn of anti-homosexualy laws.

An anti-LGBTQ billboard that said “cursed is he who practic the ed of the people of Lot (homosexualy) was erected Port Louis, the Mrian pal, a few days ago. Iranian Print Ebrahim Raisi this week praised his Ugandan unterpart for signg the untry’s Anti-Homosexualy Act.