Ethpian church groups are angry a US-based gay tourist operator plans to vis relig s.
Contents:
- ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
- ETHPIA TOUR FOR GAY, LBIAN TRAVELERS JEOPARDY AMID BACKLASH OM FAH GROUPS
- ETHPIA GAY TOUR NCELLED AFTER “GOME” ATH THREATS
- ETHPIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
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Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The Toto Tours erary clus the ancient church of LalibelaEthpian church groups have lled on the ernment to block a planned vis to the untry by a US-based pany that anis tours for gay groups were particularly angry that the erary published by the Toto Tours pany clus relig Ethpians are eply relig and disapprove of homosexualy, which is also prohibed unr the owner of Toto Tours told the BBC the pany had received threats and hate msag on social media. "He emphasised that homosexualy was illegal Ethpia, and said the tour pany should not be allowed to "vlate the law of the land" Negash is also a an of the Ethpian Orthodox church, and has been lobbyg agast homosexualy the untry. Image source, BBC/GEORGE WAFULAImage ptn, Many Ai untri outlaw homosexual activyThe ll for the ernment to ban the tour was reportedly echoed by the Inter-Relig Council of Ethpia, which clus Christian and Islamic nomatns.
"Tour programm and datg programm that try to e our historil s and herage should be immediately stopped by the Ethpian ernment, " Tagay Tale, a Council official, told AFP news agency.
ETHPIA TOUR FOR GAY, LBIAN TRAVELERS JEOPARDY AMID BACKLASH OM FAH GROUPS
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Consensual homosexual acts n be punished by up to 15 years jail unr Article 629 of the Ethpian Crimal Co. It is unclear if Toto Tours would be vlatg Ethpian law by merely visg the Sheway, the -founr of Hoe of Guramayle, a London-based anisatn that advot for the regnn of LGBT rights Ethpia, told the BBC that homophobia had ep roots the gay Ethpians did not reveal their sexualy, he said, for fear of physil harm and ostracism.
He add that the row over Toto Tours had triggered a social-media storm, wh many Ethpians exprsg outrage at the prospect of gay tourists visg the untry - and even llg for attacks agast them and their straight Ware told the BBC that Toto Tours was not signed to spread "our beliefs or our way of life".
Acrdg to the webse, the pany has also anised tours to Uganda and Tanzania - both Ain untri that crimalise homosexual on this storyAround the BBC. Chigo-based Toto Tours’ 16-day trip to Ethpia is due to take place at the end of October and clus relig s such as the Debre Berhan Selassie Gondar and the ancient ve monasteri the mountas of relig groups the untry are urgg the Ethpian ernment to ban the pany om visg relig s, warng that gay travellers uld face vlence. Ethpia has strict anti-gay laws, wh homosexual acts punishable by up to 15 years prison.
ETHPIA GAY TOUR NCELLED AFTER “GOME” ATH THREATS
CHICAGO (RNS) — A trip to Ethpia planned by a Chigo-based tour pany for gay and lbian travelers is jeopardy amid a backlash primarily om relig groups the Ain untry, where homosexualy is crimalized. * ethiopia gay tour *
Speakg at a prs nference on Monday, Dereje Negash, vice chairman of Silte Mihret Uned Associatn, an Ethpian Orthodox Church anisatn, said that gay travellers wh Toto Tours, “will be damaged, they uld even die”, if they vis Ethpia. It has also n tours to Uganda and Tanzania, both of which currently crimalise homosexual an email to AFP, Toto Tours print Dan Ware said the pany had been “terribly misunrstood”, and lled for protectn for the tour group om both the US State Department and the Ethpian tourism mistry.
”John Tanzella, CEO of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA), said the suatn showed how much work there was still to be done to achieve equaly, and that the travel dtry uld play an important role facilatg change. ”Anti-gay laws are wispread across Ai, wh homosexualy punishable by ath Mrania, Sudan, northern Nigeria and southern Somalia.
Earlier this year was crimalised Angola, jog 21 other Ain untri (acrdg to Amnty Internatnal) cludg Burka Faso, Republic of the Congo and Mali, where homosexualy has never been agast the law. All bee Ware and many of his travelg panns are gay.
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You are ls than animals, ” reads one email Ware received this week as print of Toto Travel, which aniz trips for gay and lbian travelers, as well as their close iends and fay.
Ware found Toto Tours nearly 30 years ago when he left his job workg at the Baha’i Natnal Center the Chigo area after -workers learned he was gay.
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In that time, he said, Toto’s gay and lbian ctomers have had good experienc. They go, ‘Wow, we’ve never met gay people before, '” he said. “We are askg the ernment to stop the travelers wh the gay pany om visg our historil plac.
We are warng those Ethpians who are operatg wh this evil thg, ” Tiguhan Kis Tagay Tale, the secretary general of the Inter-Relig Council of Ethpia, said at a June 3 news nference. In Ethpia, homosexualy often is treated as a taboo subject and nmned on the basis of tradn, relign and law.