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Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• UGANDA GAY ON MOVE
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
• DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE
• IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• GAY XHOSA MEN’S EXPERIENC OF ULWALO (TRADNAL MALE IATN)
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• GHANA TOPS GAY LIST AI
• HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
• A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• GAY MEN 'TORTURED AND SODOMISED' BY POLICE UGANDA TO 'PROVE THEY ARE GAY'

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg queer.None of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. While there is no way to “drs gay,” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim imagable.While I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt iend.Keep obssg!

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

A member of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) seen reactg after Kenya's High Court led to uphold the Brish-era penal that crimalis gay sex (Photo: 24 May 2019)In the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab" I met Mr Kaluma - a member of veteran Kenyan opposn polician Raila Odga's Orange Democratic Movement - he was stg behd his sk at his office the pal Nairobi, proof-readg and makg rrectns to a bill that he tends to table parliament soon. "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

UGANDA GAY ON MOVE

Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual Kaluma tells me he wants their asylum to be revoked, and for them to leave a small, hidn church set up to offer fort and support to LGBTQ people central Nairobi, the female pastor says Mr Kaluma's bill is g "a lot of panic, anxiety, fear". It fuels some kd of vlence that now people are planng but holdg back on, " she tells Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma 's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai. "Fay Watch oppos legislatn that penalis a person for havg sexual attractns or for how they intify, " she says an emailed rponse to the Slater addrsed Ain lawmakers, clerics and mpaigners at their fom Uganda's laki cy of Entebbe March, and later appeared a group photo wh Print Meveni at his official more than 20 years, Mrs Slater has lobbied ernments on what she lls "fay valu" and has ma her missn to mpaign agast children and young people beg given Comprehensive Sexualy Edutn (CSE), a curriculum-based sex tn programme champned by the Uned Natns and other c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic.

"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy" I ntact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Ai, for ment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposn", as she refers to adds that the manual is only a guile, and each untry n tailor to su their Bakaroudis fends CSE, sayg provis "life-savg rmatn" to curb high rat of untend pregnanci, HIV, and sexually transmted 's LGBTQ muny has been wagg a long-nng mpaign to mand equal rightsAlthough Mr Kaluma attend the meetg Uganda -sponsored by FWI, he ni workg wh the group on his bill, which he says will propose a ban on teachg CSE sayg is part of the "LGBTQ agenda". In a rage, she released a profany-laced vio enuragg women to download the lotn-based meetg apps, like Grdr and Pla Romeo, which are ually ed by gay subsequent vios, she said her aim was to reveal the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg her attackers how many gay men were livg their vicy, perhaps even their own people followed Ms. A 2020 review of Ains’ attus toward homosexualy suggts that equent ter ers are more likely to be tolerant of gay teenagers the cy of Makeni northern Sierra Leone, Fatmata Bta Jalloh, 17, and Marie Kamara, 16, told me that while they believe homosexualy don’t exist their untry, they’ve seen plenty of gay people onle.

WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?

It is the reason I receive ath threats, which ultimately drove me to exile om my home long as the notn that homosexualy is un-Ain persists, Kenyatta will receive applse, Mugabe will w electns, and parliaments across the ntent will retroduce harmful stop all this, we need to start by re-tellg our history and rememberg our te Ain culture, one that celebrat diversy, promot equaly and acceptance, and regnis the ntributn of everyone, whatever their sexualy. Jim Chuchu, Kenya, 2014Kenyan filmmaker Jim Chuchu and the Nairobi-based Nt Collective's anthology, one of Okayai's Top Films of 2014, picts queer life Kenya through a seri of five black-and-whe vigte is based off of a te story om a larger photo project, also tled Stori of Our Liv, which The Nt Collective archived the ttimoni of persons intifyg as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersex om Kenya begng June 2013.

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" Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy.

DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE

Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si. The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst. Now 79, Miss Major, known to many simply as “Mama, ” ris Ltle Rock, Arkansas, where she ntu to be a vol Sprg's mayor Ron On, April 18, Khan / LA Tim via Getty ImagRon On (Born 1950)When On was elected mayor of Palm Sprgs, California 2003, he ma history by beg the first openly gay Ain Amerin man elected mayor of an Amerin cy.

South Ai although progrsive s legislatn agast discrimatn on the basis of homosexualy ‘remas a homophobic, heterosexist society where, across cultur, homosexualy is pathologised, and where cultural disurs such as the notn that “homosexualy is not Ain” ntue to play themselv out’ (Henrson and Shefer 2008, 4; see also Chard et al.

South Ai has set up a range of legal and nstutnal mechanisms to promote lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex rights, om nstutnal protectn agast discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, to the acceptance of gay marriage 2005 the Constutnal Court and the subsequent Civil Unns Act (Republic of South Ai 2006) and other homosexual men transgrs certa aspects of hegemonic masculy, but are still required to negotiate their inti relatn to domant ias of what means to be a man wh a particular cultural ntext. This is also te the ntext of ulwalo, where gay men challenge some aspects of the rual that they do not intify wh, or where they purposefully participate the rual to disprove normative notns of is central to the nstctn of masculy, and men’s theorists such as Connell (2005) and Hearn (2004) mata that there is a hierarchy wh masculy whereby certa forms of masculy (hegemonic masculi) are nsired more honourable and domant than others.

IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY

And I get along well wh them so there were no problems, but there were a few of them that put a lot of prsure on me, but sce I’m a people’s person and I like beg wh people, and I don’t try to nvert straight people to beg gay and I never proposed love to anyone and didn’t re about those thgs, I did not experience any problemsSenzo felt that due to his personaly he did not experience any ‘problems’ wh other iat. Siar fdgs regardg this me om Sipho, a 21-year-old, fal-year universy stunt and member of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex social movement at his universy, and Thabo, a 19-year-old first-year stunt and member the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex movement at his universy:When they were dog that cultural iatn language thg I ed to seat my hut ‘z I didn’t know what I had to learn that for when I knew I will not e outsi. In the group discsn, emerged that fai hoped that pictns of manhood at the school would be so appealg to iat that they would reject earlier notns and beliefs they had regardg homosexualy and th ‘choose’ to be heterosexual:Thabo: My grandfather ma sure that I had harsh, harsh treatment; he sisted that I had no privileg you know …Themba: So your grandfather’s wish were for you to be hard, more of a man?

The followg passage taken om the group terview illtrat this:Indirectly there was prsure om my father but he uldn’t say I should go bee I had already ma known that I was willg to go … he hoped that I would fail bee I’m sure he thought to himself that I’m not man enough, that I am weak, that I was a stabane [homosexual] whatever, whatever. The fal versn has yet to be officially published but elements discsed parliament clu: A person who is nvicted of groomg or traffickg children for purpos of engagg them homosexual activi fac life prisonIndividuals or stutns which support or fund LGBT rights' activi or anisatns, or publish, broadst and distribute pro-gay media material and lerature, also face prosecutn and imprisonmentMedia groups, journalists and publishers face prosecutn and imprisonment for publishg, broadstg, distributn of any ntent that advot for gay rights or "promot homosexualy"Death penalty for what is scribed as "aggravated homosexualy", that is sexual abe of a child, a person wh disabily or vulnerable people, or s where a victim of homosexual asslt is fected wh a life-long illnsProperty owners also face risk of beg jailed if their premis are ed as a "brothel" for homosexual acts or any other sexual mori rights' activiA small group of Ugandan MPs on a mtee sctisg the bill disagreed wh s premise. They argue the offenc seeks to crimalise are already vered the untry's Penal Co 2014, Uganda's nstutnal urt nullified another act which had toughened laws agast the LGBT clud makg illegal to promote and fund LGBT groups and activi, as well as reeratg that homosexual acts should be punished by life imprisonment, and was wily nmned by Wtern urt led that the legislatn be revoked bee had been passed by parliament whout the required quom.

The chapter imaged scenars which the wrer told his mother on her athbed – she died 13 years ago – that he was gay, and set them agast what actually happened, which was that he had been stuck South Ai wh visa issu, havg not seen his mum for five years, and arrived too late to tell her anythg at piece had all the hallmarks of Waaa's bt wrg; was sharp, timate, alive to all the Hollywood clich of that particular well-worked mother-son drama, but was signifint mostly this stance for s timg.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

And at a time when Nigeria – a untry Waaa is the hab of visg several tim a year – has crimalised any same-sex relatnship or s promotn, apparently givg official sanctn to the beatgs, whippgs and stongs of gay men and lbian women the fundamentalist Islamic north of the untry, and imposg mandatory 10-year jail terms elsewhere. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

GAY XHOSA MEN’S EXPERIENC OF ULWALO (TRADNAL MALE IATN)

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsA gay Ugandan man has told how he was subjected to torturo anal examatns to prove his sexualy, a untry notor for s vlent man, named only as Masa, said he was woken by a mob bangg spoons on metal okg pots, while shoutg “out wh the homos” and “the homos are there” 21-year-old said he and his male iend were dragged out of his Kampala home and vic punishment is jt the latt example of forced anal examatns, tracked by Human Rights Watch, the east Ain at the gay pri event Entebbe, Uganda, 2014 Getty (Getty)“We opened the door, and there were police and people everywhere, ” Masa told the Thomson Rters Foundatn.

”Ex-rtrant worker Masa, who was beaten January 2014, also said he uld not walk the street, llect medice or claim benefs “bee I am a homosexual” has changed his name and says he liv a shelter away om iends and is one of 36 untri Ai where homosexualy is illegal and one of eight untri globally where Human Rights Watch has evince of forced anal examatns to prove homosexualy.

” “Lbians an often homophobic and patriarchal society, they face a further danger — the ia that they n be changed and ma to women through what is known as rrective rape, ” Boyce said a BBC reported 2011 that 31 lbians had been subjected to sexual asslt to “change” their sexual orientatns the past 10 Mvandaba, another Black lbian, was killed her own home jt days prr to Bhengu’s ath.

UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY

”Acrdg to Mvandaba’s Facebook, she was a volunteer at Phakama Youth and Communy Health Project, a fah-based advocy anizatn that sought to provi AIDS tn and HIV ttg to muny one day after Mvandaba was murred, a 28-year-old gay man, Masixole Level, was found ad the cy of Gqebera the Eastern Cape, acrdg to Mamba Onle.

GHANA TOPS GAY LIST AI

HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED

A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

GAY MEN 'TORTURED AND SODOMISED' BY POLICE UGANDA TO 'PROVE THEY ARE GAY'