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GAY ETHPIA?
A ld tile floor and threadbare ts have never seemed so the gigglg, affectnate men acted this way – unabashedly, stereotypilly gay – on the streets of Ethpia's pal, they uld be expelled, beaten up, fired, disowned, or jailed. This is the realy of what means to be gay Ethpia. Seventy-six untri crimalize sexual activy by lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, and 38 of them, cludg Ethpia, are Ai.
Acrdg to the 2007 Pew Global Attus Project, 97 percent of Ethpians thk homosexualy should be outlawed. Unlike Mrania, Sudan, and Northern Nigeria, Ethpia don't mandate the ath penalty for same-sex sexual acts, but thanks to dranian laws that forbid activism while allowg Wtern evangelils to promote homophobia, Ethpia is on track to jo their many untri, 's gettg better for the LGBT muny. Given that a volunteer who, say, dar to hand out lubrint to gay men uld face imprisonment and jeopardize his or her groups' larger-sle work, anizatns have cid 's not worth the risk.
ISRAELI, ETHPIAN AND GAY
Gays are persecuted Uganda, but that untry's health mistry recently admted that specialized clics for LGBT people have helped bat HIV rat; Dr.
Ketebirhan Admasu, the Ethpian Mister of Health, would only tell Newsweek that homosexualy is unlikely to be crimalized " the near future, " although any person "n accs any type of servic regardls of their sexual orientatn.
GUNS, KNIV AND RAPE: THE PLIGHT OF A GAY ETHPIAN REFUGEE KENYA
" More than two dozen gay and lbian Ethpians terviewed by Newsweek said that's a sick joke; the muny is terrified to seek re. She was surprised that gay Ethpians had agreed to talk to Newsweek, even anonymoly.
State Department "livers this msage" is by pyg and pastg the same two paragraphs year after year s Ethpian Human Rights Report, which briefly not "some reports of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals" while acknowledgg that "reportg was limed due to fear of retributn, discrimatn, or stigmatizatn. "Feelg God's HateMost Ethpians sist that homosexualy is a Wtern disease, says Mercy, a 28-year-old LGBT activist who fled to Washgton, D. A 26-year-old Ethpian who currently studi Boston and go by the name Happy on Facebook said that he grew up thkg was a "Wtern thg" to be gay.
"Lears of Ethpian Mlims, heads of the Orthodox, Prottant and Catholic church, ernment officials, members of the Ethpian Parliament, lears of polil parti, and youth anizatns routely put their differenc asi to attend nferenc on the "gay problem" – one last year, entled "Homosexualy and Its Associated Social Disastro Consequenc, " was held the Ain Unn headquarters Addis Ababa. "Ethpians do not need their inty to be dictated for them om outsi no matter how wealthy or powerful the forc applyg the prsure, " Abune Plos, the former head of the Ethpian Orthodox Church, told nference goers last, while Ethpia prohibs foreign LGBT-related activism, wel ternatnal relig groups that preach homophobia.