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Contents:

• THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• GAY STOCKHOLM

THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979

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If you happen to be Swen durg the ntt you n’t miss the opportuny to attend a viewg party at a lol gay bar. I me to study Swen, I had heard was the world’s Gay mec, and y, that’s gay wh a pal G. Whether be discsg LGBTQ+ issu or sharg about my girliend, dog so feels really, really support translat to 2019 pollg done by Eurbarometer, where 98% of Swes exprsed that gay and bisexual people serve the same rights as heterosexual people, wh 92% support of same-sex-marriage.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

You n fd exampl of laws protectg LGBTQ+ rights below:sce 1987, discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn has been bannedsce 1995, same-sex upl uld register for partnership benefssce 2003, lbian and gay upl have been able to petn for adoptnsce 2005, lbians upl have had equal accs to IVF and artificial sematnsce 2009, same-sex marriage has been legalizedsce 2009, discrimatn on the basis of genr inty and exprsn has been bannedsce 2013, transgenr dividuals uld legally change their genr whout unrdog sex reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy3.

And of urse, bigger ci like Stockholm and Gothenburg, you n fd those gay bars you might be cravg.

GAY STOCKHOLM

As a stunt Swen, you have the eedom to be a part of the movements, you are terted gettg volved, one of the bt anizatns you n check out is, the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Rights. Homosexualy was nsired a mental illns many untri as late as the mid-20th century—if was not classified as an outright crime. Even Swen, that Sndavian bastn of openns and equaly, intified beg gay as a disorr as late as year, a group of Swes took advantage of the legal amework that ma beg gay an illns and lled sick to work, claimg their homosexualy as the reason.

One woman, om the southern provce of Smålanven, managed to get Social Secury benefs for llg gay. Callg gay was part of a larger prott om the RFSL, the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights. Swen crimalized homosexualy 1944, but acrdg to the Natnal Board of Health and Welfare, which velops health standards, was still a disease.

As a b of ntext, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn announced that would no longer nsir homosexualy a mental disorr 1973, though ntued to e “sexual orientatn disturbance” to tegorize dividuals who felt distrsed by their sexual orientatn (among other odd disorrs) up wh the lack of tractn was gag through tradnal letter and phone mpaigns, RFSL planned to occupy the Natnal Board buildg as a monstratn agast pathologizg homosexualy.

On Augt 29, durg the middle of Stockholm’s “Homosexual Liberatn Week” (which later beme known as Stockholm Pri), RFSL protters gathered to block the stairs of the Natnal Board buildg, chantg and wavg banners. In late October of 1979, the Natnal Board classified homosexualy as a disease, makg Swen the first European untry to do so. People who have been persecuted their native untri due to their homosexualy may be granted asylum Swen.

RFSLRFSL—The Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights is a non-prof anizatn that works wh and for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people (LGBT). OmbudsmanThe Ombudsman Agast Discrimatn  (DO) is the ernment thory that works agast homophobia and discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn and genr inty. 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. Botswana's High Court also led favour of crimalisg homosexualy 2019. 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.

In Febary his year Kenya's hight urt led that was wrong for thori to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn.