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• THE EQUALY CLSE: GAY RIGHTS AND THE CONSTUTN

THE EQUALY CLSE: GAY RIGHTS AND THE CONSTUTN

Same-sex nduct is not illegal  Rwanda, but thori there round up and arbrarily taed people regard as socially unsirable, cludg over a dozen gay and transgenr people, sex workers, street children, and others the months before a planned June 2021 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetg. Current statSce Dec 14, 2007AmbiguoSectn 14 of the Sexual Offenc Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 2 of 1988, set the age of nsent for gay and lbian sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex. UnequalSectn 14 of the Sexual Offenc Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 2 of 1988, set the age of nsent for gay and lbian sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex.

UnequalEven though gay male sex was illegal for all ag, sectn 14 of the Immoraly Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 57 of 1969, set the age of nsent for gay male sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex. (Samantha Rers)The Unfulfilled Promise of LGBTQ Rights South AiThe untry has some of the most progrsive laws the world, but refuge fleeg homophobia elsewhere often fd a untry that is morally nservative, hostile, and profoundly ’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall TOWN, South Ai—On a recent foggy morng, Ndodana board a mib and traveled more than 20 to the Ivan Toms Centre for Men’s Health to llect his ee HIV meditn. The gay-iendly clic li a predomantly whe neighborhood of Cape Town, wedged between a strip of rtrants, upsle hotels, and the V&A Wateront, a major tourist bimonthly trip is a long one and, on the surface, unnecsary: Mfuleni, the impoverished township where he rents a room, has s own HIV-treatment center.

“They’ll ask you to prove that you’re gay, ” said Ethan Chigwada, a PASSOP staffer who ped om Zimbabwe 2015 after sufferg years of physil and sexual abe at the hands of fay members. “You keep prayg that one day that door will open, ” he told me, speakg of the rejectn by his relig past May, he attend Kumbulani Pri, an annual event to memorate victims of homophobia that this year was takg place around the rner om his hoe.

The legal and social stat of between 400, 000–over 2 ln lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex South Ains has been fluenced by a batn of tradnal South Ain mor, lonialism, and the lgerg effects of apartheid and the human rights movement that ntributed to s Ai’s post-apartheid Constutn was the first the world to outlaw discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and South Ai was the fifth untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage. Neverthels, LGBT South Ains, particularly those outsi of the major ci, ntue to face some challeng, cludg homophobic vlence (particularly rrective rape), and high rat of HIV/AIDS fectn. They are ually discsed as homosexual relatnships, though sometim the boy-wiv are discsed the ntext of transgenr Bantu peopl, cludg the Tswana people, and the Nbele people, had tradns of acceptance or difference towards same-sex sexual acts.

There was wispread liberty to engage sexual activy wh both men and IsiNgqumo, the term skana refers to effemate gay men or transgenr people (typilly people born male but who act, drs and behave as female) who have sexual relatns wh men, and jonga refers to mascule gay terurse between men was historilly prohibed South Ai as the mon law crime of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offence”, hered om the Roman-Dutch law. Apartheid eraUnr South Ai’s lg Natnal Party om 1948 to 1994, homosexualy was a crime punishable by up to seven years prison; this law was ed to harass and outlaw South Ain gay muny events and polil activists. The Gay Associatn of South Ai (GASA), based the Hillbrow district central Johannburg, was a predomantly whe anisatn that ially avoid takg an official posn on apartheid, while the Rand Gay Organisatn was multi-racial and found opposn to apartheid.