Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury law | South Cha Morng Post

Contents:

• CENTRAL FLORIDA GAY AND LESBIAN LAW ASSOCIATION
• MICHAEL GAY
• MR MICHAEL GAY, PARTNER/SHAREHOLR
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• EDWARD R. GAY, ATTORNEY
• ASHLEY LYNN GAY

CENTRAL FLORIDA GAY AND LESBIAN LAW ASSOCIATION

About Central Florida Gay & Lbian Law Associatn CFGALLA. It is the objective of CFGALLA to tablish and mata an tegrated group to support, assist, and enurage gay and lbian attorneys, legal profsnals, and law stunts, and provi support and rourc to the muny at large on gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred issu. Michael Gay is a ligatn partner the Orlando office of Foley & Lardner LLP.

It is helpful to first expla that the acronym LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) has been expand to clu many other sexuali and genrs. <div id="L" style="width:250px;text-align:center;background-lor: #fbaa02;paddg:3px;"><a href=" style="lor: #fff;text-ratn:none;size: 12px;"> Listed: Michael Gay</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="></script>. <div id="L" style="width:250px;text-align:center;background-lor: #fbaa02;paddg:3px;"><a href=" style="lor: #fff;text-ratn:none;size: 12px;"> Verified: Michael Gay</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="></script>.

-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Image source, Getty ImagIn 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 muny.

MICHAEL GAY

Gee 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". "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 May.

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. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

MR MICHAEL GAY, PARTNER/SHAREHOLR

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma says.

Gay 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 orientatn.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY 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".

"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 says. FWI's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai. She 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".

EDWARD R. GAY, ATTORNEY

Supreme Court stck down Sectn 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act “DOMA” on June 26, 2013, which formerly discrimated agast married lbian and gay upl for the purpos of termg feral benefs and protectns. Gay</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="></script>.

Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury lawHong Kong anisers of the Gay Gam are unr prsure om some foreign officials and participants who say they will stay away om the November event to avoid “accintally” breachg the cy’s strict natnal secury ncerns have e on top of recent lls by some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong for the event to be ncelled, and protts by nservative only four months to go, the anisers have pledged to prs on, hopg to h their target of 3, 000 participants for the first edn of the gam to be held Gam ambassadors pose for a photo March. ChengUned Stat-based Shamey Cramer, an honorary life member of the ternatnal Feratn of Gay Gam, told the Post there was “a safety and secury issue” Hong Kong. Unpackg Hong Kong’s natnal secury law, 3 years onTaiwan’s gam affiliate said earlier that would not take part the Hong Kong event, wh Kev Yang Chih-chun, print of the Taiwan Gay Sports and Movement Associatn, also cg worri about the natnal secury secury mister Rega Ip, nvenor of the cy’s key cisn-makg body, the Executive Council, dismissed the ncerns raised by those refg to travel to Hong Kong.

”The Gay Gam, which began 1982, are held every four years. The last edn was held Paris 2018, attractg 10, 000 Hong Kong event was meant to be held last year, but was postponed bee of the Covid-19 panmic, and the targeted number of participants was entire st would be fund by sponsorship, private donatns and participant fe, the anisers one-year untdown to the Gay Gam is held November. Among those attendg were Hong Kong Gay Gam -chair Alan Lang (fourth om left), top adviser Rega Ip (centre) and Lan Kwai Fong Group chairman Allan Zeman (fourth om right).

ASHLEY LYNN GAY

”The natnal secury law targets secsn, subversn, terrorism and lln wh foreign Kong Gay Gam anisers refe to ncel event face of activists’ warngMeanwhile, there have been at least three recent stanc of nservative groups prottg agast the gam beg held Hong rint who preferred to rema anonymo told the Post he saw three lol women who gathered near the Polytechnic Universy mp on July 13 nounce the Gam. “There was a woman wh a megaphone sayg the Gay Gam and gay culture were poisong teenagers Hong Kong, ” he other protts volvg small groups happened this month, cludg one near the Legislative Council prottg at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR statn on July 12 had a flier claimg they had support om 15 groups, mostly associated wh anisers said they did not believe the protts signalled growg opposn.

Email Ashley Lynn Gay. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr muny has experienced, and ntu to experience, many stggl wh attag equaly and acceptance.