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• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• HIS DREAM TO SERVE THE CHP DIED BEE HE IS GAY, OFFICER SAYS. NOW HE’S SUG
• DIRTY DICKSONE OF THE OLST GAY CISE BAR AMSTERDAM WH A REPUTATN FOR FAMO PARTI.AMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDIRTY DICKS
• GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• SOUTH KOREAN URT OVERTURNS NVICTN OF SOLDIERS FOR GAY SEX
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Gayatri Kulkarni. Gayatri. 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.

HIS DREAM TO SERVE THE CHP DIED BEE HE IS GAY, OFFICER SAYS. NOW HE’S SUG

In Febary his year Kenya's hight urt led that was wrong for thori to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn. But strsed that gay sex remas illegal. Colonial legacyMany of the laws crimalisg homosexual relatns origate om lonial tim.

And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.

DIRTY DICKSONE OF THE OLST GAY CISE BAR AMSTERDAM WH A REPUTATN FOR FAMO PARTI.AMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDIRTY DICKS

Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal. For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons".

GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

Activist groups say the abily of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) anisatns to rry out advocy work is beg rtricted.

The police fd Gayatri and her dghter Padmi lyg ad their hoe. “I really wanted to make a difference, I wanted to look back 30 years and feel that I did somethg that ma a difference, ” Brome was only one problem: Brome is gay, and when his classmat and -workers disvered this he was subjected to two s worth of discrimatn, abe and ridicule, he says. “There was bullyg or name-llg – ‘fag, ’ ‘gay, ’’ Brome said.

”The abe began at the amy Wt Sacramento, where he says that durg an exercise a t poted a trag gun at his head and said, “I know you’re gay, tell me you’re gay or I’ll pull the trigger. ”Eventually, Brome retired after a 20-year reer durg which he says beme apparent that gay men the CHP were routely targeted for abe and given no support om supervisors.

SOUTH KOREAN URT OVERTURNS NVICTN OF SOLDIERS FOR GAY SEX

’ ”Now, Brome is wagg a legal battle agast an agency that he says is stctured to protect offenrs and drive out gay attorney, Gay Gnfeld, filed a 55-page brief Nov. “The harassment began durg Officer Brome’s amy trag, where he faced homophobic slurs and physil threats, and followed him om assignment to assignment – om the CHP’s San Francis area office, where his reer began 1996, to the CHP’s area offic Contra Costa and Solano, where he worked om 2008 until the psychologil toll of the CHP’s hostile work environment beme so tolerable that his doctor orred him to take medil strs leave on Jan. ”Brome’s plats are not Stanley spent 30 years the CHP, and sued the partment after what he says was a seri of homophobic tnts aimed at him bee some of his lleagu cid he was gay.

“I’m straight, I’m not gay, ” Stanley said. “But some of the other sergeants I worked wh didn’t like me, so they took upon themselv to portray me as gay by postg pictur the sergeant’s office. “It’s your typil macho environment (where) to other ls-ted dividuals the workforce there n be no greater sult acrdg to them than portrayg somebody as gay, ” Stanley said.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

“I observed plenty of homophobic behavr towards and about gay men at the CHP, cludg myself, ” one former lleague of Brome’s wrote. “Before I me out, a prev squad partner remarked more than once that he uld not stand ‘queers, ’ after we had pulled over multiple motorists who happened to be gay. One of the cy's olst gay fetish stutns.