This month, South Ai celebrat the anniversary of s pneerg gay-marriage cisn. But the realy on the ground lags far behd the legal suatn.
Contents:
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- NAMIBIAN PARLIAMENT APPROV ANTI-GAY LAW SPE URT LG
- TOP 10 AIN COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGAL
- SOUTH AI TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- WE AINS LOVE THE US, SO WHY N’T WE ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE?
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay marriage africa *
Sce then, however, Hungarian lawmakers and populist Prime Mister Viktor Orban have passed several anti-LGBTQ+ laws, cludg on that prohib same-sex upl om adoptg children and ban any ntent emed to promote beg gay or transgenr om beg distributed to people unr the age of eighteen. Meanwhile, Chechnya, a semitonomo republic wh Rsia, dozens of men spected of beg gay have been taed, tortured, and even killed two separate official crackdowns sce 2017.
NAMIBIAN PARLIAMENT APPROV ANTI-GAY LAW SPE URT LG
South Ai was the first Ain untry to legalize gay marriage 2006. * gay marriage africa *
Kts and Nevis stck down laws crimalizg gay sex. He drew cricism om LGBTQ+ advocy groups durg his mpaign over homophobic remarks.
Cuba, where homosexualy was once punished by ternment forced-labor mps, has changed markedly recent years. Sgaporean Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong vowed 2022 to crimalize gay sex but said this would not change the stat quo on marriage. In Bnei, gay sex is punishable by stong to ath, though followg ternatnal outcry, the ernment said won’t enforce the law.
TOP 10 AIN COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGAL
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In 2018, India lifted a lonial-era ban on gay sex, and 2020, Bhutan moved to crimalize .
There is ltle rmatn on public attus toward homosexualy South and Central Asia. When Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup, s anti-LGBTQ+ laws were wily cricized; prohibs gay sex, and secury forc have asslted transgenr women and other LGBTQ+ people, acrdg to Human Rights Watch.
SOUTH AI TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
In 2018, Lebane urts set a potential precent for the crimalizatn of gay sex, but the untry ntued to crack down on peaceful LGBTQ+ gathergs 2021 and banned them outright 2022.
Pollg by Aobarometer between 2016 and 2018 found that 78 percent [PDF] of Ains across thirty-four untri were tolerant of homosexualy. In Ghana, where same-sex relatns are an imprisonable offense, draft legislatn would make intifyg as gay or an LGBTQ+ ally a felony.
However, there have been recent advanc: the Aobarometer poll found that majori three untri addn to South Ai—Cape Ver, Mri, and Namibia—are tolerant of homosexualy.
WE AINS LOVE THE US, SO WHY N’T WE ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE?
Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris. Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry.
Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.