LGBT Rights Gambia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- GAY TRAVELLERS TO GAMBIA - GAMBIA FOM
- GAMBIA LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS NEWS MONORG
- GAMBIA’S PRINT THREATENS TO SL THE THROATS OF GAY MEN
- GAYS ARE ‘VERM’, SAYS GAMBIAN PRINT
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
GAY TRAVELLERS TO GAMBIA - GAMBIA FOM
Gambia’s Print Yahya Jammeh has faced global nmnatn over his natn’s human rights rerd and an anti-gay law." data-reactroot=" * gambia gay news *
The Gambia said Tuday that would neher crimalise homosexualy nor review s laws, followg weeks of ntroversy over the issue the untry. In a statement, the ernment nied wily circulated mours of plans to soften homosexualy laws exchange for aid funds. He said The Gambia’s ernment ntu to be guid by “the norms of s people” and “has no plans to eher crimalise or even enterta a review of laws on homosexualy”.
Tuday’s statement follows weeks of prsure on the ernment to rpond to apparently pro-gay social media posts om the European Unn’s legatn the Mlim-majory natn.
GAMBIA LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS NEWS MONORG
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On May 17 — the ternatnal day agast homophobia, transphobia and biphobia — the EU legatn The Gambia upload posts urgg that gay people not be exclud om society. Gay people were heavily persecuted unr The Gambia’s former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, who fled January 2017 after losg a printial electn to relative newer Adama Barrow. Talks over revisg The Gambia’s nstutn, held unr Barrow, have also sparked discsn about gay rights the former Brish lony of some two ln people.
“”The climate of fear worsened over the last 12 months, wh people perceived to be gay or lbian creasgly targeted, ” said Amnty’s Wt Ai rearcher Sabra Mahtani.
Jennifer Lawsk recently served as the registered foreign agent for Gambia, a wtern Ain regime known for s human rights ab, cludg repeated threats to behead gay people.
GAMBIA’S PRINT THREATENS TO SL THE THROATS OF GAY MEN
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Natnal Secury Adviser San Rice nmned on Saturday the print of Gambia’s pledge to sl the throats of gay men his untry as “unnscnable. Jammeh is one of Ai’s most vol anti-gay lears and has prevly threatened to behead sexual mori found his untry.
The cisn to drop Gambia om special tra stat unr the Ain Growth and Opportuny Act of 2000 me amid news that three Gambian men had been arrted and acced of homosexualy. DAKAR, Senegal — The Gambian ernment has lashed out at Wtern donor natns that have cricized a new law that punish some homosexual acts wh life prison.
GAYS ARE ‘VERM’, SAYS GAMBIAN PRINT
"LGBT n only stand for leprosy, gonorrhoea, bacteria and tuberculosis": Gambia's Print Yahya Jammeh says the ernment will fight gay people the same way tackl mosquo. * gambia gay news *
The European Unn and the Uned Stat recently exprsed dismay at the law and discrimatn agast gay people the Wt Ain untry. State Department has nmned the cisn by Gambia’s print to approve a law imposg life imprisonment for some homosexual acts.
DAKAR, Senegal — The print of Gambia has signed a bill to law that lls for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, the latt Ain untry to dify harsh penalti for the gay muny. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast A Gambian lawmaker says the Natnal Assembly has passed a bill imposg life imprisonment for some homosexual acts. BANJUL, Gambia — Gambia’s Print Yahya Jammeh is threateng to kill asylum seekers who ce the untry’s anti-gay laws and tarnish his image as a lear, reports Ain prs agency APA.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
As the sl tip on gay marriage the U.S., brewg cultural and polil ndns breeds a proxy war of LGBT rights Ai. * gambia gay news *
South Ain retired Archbishop Dmond Tutu joed them by phone, potg out siari between Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Bill and racist laws enforced unr South Ai’s former apartheid ernment. UNITED NATIONS — The print of Gambia is g his addrs to the Uned Natns General Assembly to attack gays and lbians, llg homosexualy one of the three “biggt threats to human existence.
Gambia’s Print Yahya Jammeh, speakg Thursday night at the openg of the untry’s Parliament Banjul, ed the ocsn to send out another warng to gays, sayg they are not allowed Gambia, and if ught, “will regret” beg born. The Gambia said on Tuday that would neher crimalise homosexualy nor review s laws, followg weeks of ntroversy over the issue the ty Wt Ain state. He said the ernment ntu to be guid by “the norms of s people” and “has no plans to eher crimalise or even enterta a review of laws on homosexualy”.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light's disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. * gambia gay news *
Tuday’s statement follows weeks of prsure on the ernment to rpond to apparently pro-gay social media posts om the European Unn’s legatn the Mlim-majory natn. On May 17 – the ternatnal day agast homophobia, transphobia and biphobia – the EU legatn The Gambia upload posts urgg that gay people not be exclud om society. Gambia’s Print Yahya Jammeh has faced global nmnatn over his natn’s human rights rerd and an anti-gay law.
Gambian thori arrted three men and acced them of mtg homosexual acts, which are punishable wh a maximum sentence of life imprisonment unr a law signed October, state televisn has said. The arrts followed a secury operatn and the men have nfsed that they are gay, acrdg to the televisn report.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Gambia and Print Yahya Jammeh face global nmnatn over the untry’s human rights rerd, part bee of the law, which troduced “aggravated homosexualy” as a crime punishable some s wh life prison. Durg the broadst about the arrts, the untry’s Natnal Intelligence Agency appealed to the public, pecially parents and landlords, to help them stamp out homosexualy. The lear of the opposn Gambia Actn Party (GAP), Ma Oaou Yali Batchilly, has warned people agast homosexualy the Gambia while llg on the...
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
The first time we vised there were 2 Brish men our hotel who appeared to be iends but we did notice ty subtle touch that said to that perhaps they were gay (ty subtle touch that perhaps a Gambian wouldn't notice the same as we, beg om the same culture, would). I'm sure you've read of the penalti the print has promised to heap on anyone he fds to be gay, but even if that turned out to be a tourist I doubt if would be so severe. Gambian men often walk holdg hands as a sign of platonic iendship (I always notice bee 's so at odds wh their views on homosexualy).
There are a uple of gay TA members who do vis tg each year wh their partners, hopefully they will see this and offer you advice by pm.
Same advice as above, you will have no problems, Jt to go off track s a jail sentence if a man and a woman get ught havg any sort of sex a public place, so if two gay people get ught Mmm, Im not sayg that's what you will be gettg up to, but jt act like you are jt mat on holiday, which sence that's what you are and you will have no problems, enjoy your holiday,. As Granny says is noticeable and que touchg that many men, and youths, walk and sometim stand for a few mut holdg hands, and seems so at variance wh the profsed views on homosexualy. Acrdg to Vice News, which received a translatn of Jammeh's speech, livered the regn's Wolof language, Jammeh sound a dire warng to homosexuals livg his untry.