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Contents:

• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• IT’S ACTUALLY OK TO BE GAY CHA ONLE—JT DON’T ASK FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IRL
• LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted  a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha. Gay Marriage⚭✖ Unregistered habatnCensorship✖ State-enforcedChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatnVari by RegnEmployment DiscrimatnVari by RegnHog DiscrimatnVari by RegnDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

Homosexual activy Cha is Cha’s current Penal Co (1997) ntas no explic prohibn of nsensual sexual acts between persons of the same sex. Acrdg to The Guardian, the Che ernment has "banned all pictns of gay people on televisn, " llg "vulgar, immoral and unhealthy ntent. Current statSce Oct 1, 1949Ambiguo For homosexuals the policy is don't ask don't tell banned for transgenrsBlood donatns by MSMs Cha?

Current statSce Jul 1, 2012Banned (fe ferral) Homosexual men who are sexually active wh other men n not donate blood Cha, however, 2012, the Che Mistry of Health lifted the ban agast lbians donatg (fe ferral)In 1998, Cha banned homosexual men and women om donatg blood out of fear of spreadg HIV. Durg this year’s Pri Month, soccer star Li Yg ma history as Cha’s first female athlete to e out publicly as gay, a ndid seri of celebratory photos posted on social media, showg her posg happily alongsi her partner. In years past, June was filled wh LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) events major ci such as Shanghai and Beijg, durg which Cha’s sexual mori uld semi-openly celebrate their inty.

IT’S ACTUALLY OK TO BE GAY CHA ONLE—JT DON’T ASK FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IRL

Some LGBTQ people have blamed the crackdown on the rrect imprsn that homosexualy is a Wtern import to Cha, and groups supportg gay rights are liable to filtratn by foreign forc.

Some also spect a more direct lk between the crackdown on LGBTQ rights and top officials’ worldviews, which for many were shaped durg the Cultural Revolutn the 1960s and ’70s, when thori attempted to purge any “non-socialist” elements — cludg homosexualy — om Che society. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed?

In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.

LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA

Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.

For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". Although mt be admted that Cha is lackg for several ndns to tablish a plete law system for homosexual muny, homosexualy should still be legalized Cha for four reasons.

Though there are many scholars who ncentrate on rearch of homosexualy Cha now and they are showg efforts to make the Che public notice and adm the existence of homos, is still really hard for the whole society Cha to actually know them. The mistaken imprsn of the LGBT muny is difficult to change bee of the absence of mastream media, such as newspaper, TV programs, and rad the homosexual issue and the absence is om the ambiguo posn of Che ernment. In Ameri, a great number of people who are offend by homosexualy are fluenced by their relig beliefs, which built their moral l toward many issu.

However, sce Cha is not a untry wh a particularly or historilly homophobic culture, the most fluential view that blocks the society’s moral permtivy of homosexualy is the strong nvictn of fay meang parents and children. Not once have I been nonted by an dividual who realized penntly I was raised by a gay uple bee the sexual orientatn of my parents has zero impact on the ntent of my character. Consequently, a rponsible ernment should offer the legislatn on homosexual partners’ relatnship orr to provi them wh a chance to form a real fay.