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• UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’
• EXPLAED | HOW WE GOT HERE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LGBT RIGHTS AND LAWS INDIAFROM ANCIENT INDIA TO THE 21ST CENTURY, THE LGBT MUNY HAS FOUND REPRENTATN, FACED OPPRSN MANY FORMS.VISHNU GOPATHPUBLISHED: 06 SEP 2022, 12:39 PM ISTEXPLAERS6 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
• WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• INDIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW IS HISTORY. NEXT CHALLENGE: TREAT LGBTQ PATIENTS WH RPECT
• INDIAN LGBT ACTIVISTS HOLD VIGILS BEFORE URT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW
• RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?

UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’

Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights.

EXPLAED | HOW WE GOT HERE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LGBT RIGHTS AND LAWS INDIAFROM ANCIENT INDIA TO THE 21ST CENTURY, THE LGBT MUNY HAS FOUND REPRENTATN, FACED OPPRSN MANY FORMS.VISHNU GOPATHPUBLISHED: 06 SEP 2022, 12:39 PM ISTEXPLAERS6 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY

Canon John Awodi clar vehemently that “homosexualy is a s that mt be repented of, ” addg that is agast the “orr of God. “Homosexualy is not natural, is unnatural.

The them have bee a mon thread his sermons and terviews, pecially sce Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act was signed to law last month. The act outlaws gay marriage Uganda, punish same-sex acts wh life imprisonment, and lls for the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” – which clus sex wh a mor or otherwise vulnerable person, havg sex while HIV posive and ct.

WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

In recent weeks, disturbg vios have surfaced showg mountg hostily towards lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex dividuals Uganda sce the retroductn of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill. At least 300 human rights vlatns agast spected homosexuals have been reported Uganda arisg om the Anti-Homosexualy Act of 2023, the SRT told CNN. Nash Wash Raphael, a 30-year-old transgenr man, says he was attacked on the night Meveni signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act.

The new law stat that “a person who promot homosexualy ms an offense and is liable, on nvictn, to imprisonment for a perd not exceedg twenty years. It also requir Ugandans to report spected homosexuals or vlatns of the law to the thori. On Meveni’s remendatn, the law prcrib rehabilatn for nvicted homosexuals to change their sexual orientatn, even though scientists say so-lled nversn therapy is harmful and effective.

Ugandan lawmakers, who overwhelmgly supported the bill, railed agast the supposed “recment” of young people to homosexualy, pedophilia and groomg. “I want to disagree wh the people who say homosexualy is a Wtern ncept. We’ve lived wh homosexualy here this untry, Ai.

INDIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW IS HISTORY. NEXT CHALLENGE: TREAT LGBTQ PATIENTS WH RPECT

Human rights advot say that the offense of “promotn” of homosexualy uld be weaponized agast activists, journalists, or any ordary cizen.

It is the st of ntug to operate a nservative Ugandan society where homophobic msagg emanat everywhere om church and mosqu to the hight polil offic, Amek said. The Church of Uganda openly fied the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, and supported the Anti-Homosexualy Act, accg the global head of the Anglin Church of misterpretg the Bible. The Church of Uganda says will separate om the Church of England over their differenc on the issue of homosexualy.

The Anti-Homosexualy Act of 2023 is a revival of a prev versn nicknamed the “Kill the Gays” Bill that Uganda’s parliament passed 2014 but which was blocked urt on a technily.

INDIAN LGBT ACTIVISTS HOLD VIGILS BEFORE URT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW

Jt 30 years before this, the same India that now allows people to take lovers of the same sex, was an India that persecuted openly gay people and an India where if you me out as gay or queer, you uld lose your, how did the untry make this transn? But today, on the anniversary of India's own LGBT rights day, we walk you through a brief history of LGBT laws Ancient & Medieval IndiaBefore the imposn of lonial-era laws unr Brish le, India had s own texts, which tailed the practice of homosexualy and same-sex terurse. As far back as 400 BC, the Kama Sutra, said to be wrten by Indian philosopher Vatsyayana, scrib homosexual acts tail, cludg explic stctns on how to perform such acts.

The Manmri, for example, tailed punishments like shavg the head of a woman or cuttg off her fgers, as punishment for engagg lbian om the texts, the walls of ancient archecture are the send source of rmatn about ancient India's thoughts on sexualy, wrote thor and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik a 2008 article tled 'Did Homosexualy exist ancient India? It clud punishments such as lashgs for engagg homosexual IndiaThe first dified legislatn on homosexualy India was Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co.

(File photo)The first dified legislatn on homosexualy India was Sectn 377 of the IPC. This extends to gay, lbian, bisexual, and trans relatnships, as well as acts like btialy and sodomy. Pattanaik add that Sectn 377 and other homosexualy laws India were "products of mds that were eply fluenced by the 'sex is s' stance of the Christian Bible.

RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?

Simultaneoly, the rise of HIV AIDS, largely the gay muny, mand a better outreach programme to lim the spread of the disease.