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ISRAELI, ETHPIAN AND GAY

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A lol LGBT activist, who spoke on ndn of anonymy told AP he fears for his safety, cg wispread misnceptns such as the belief that gays are rapists. Acrdg to the 2007 Pew Global Attus Project, 97 percent of Ethpia rints believe that homosexualy is a way of life that is unacceptable society.

ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN

Ethpian uncil of misters adopted a change to the untry’s “Pardon and Amnty law, ” which ma sure that homosexualy, along wh terrorism and a few other ser crim, will bee a crimal asslt that n no longer be the past, there was a history of pardong nvicted homosexuals who monstrated a “scere repentance” for their crim, addn to…. 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.

ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY

Seventy-six untri crimalize sexual activy by lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, and 38 of them, cludg Ethpia, are Ai. 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.

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.

" More than two dozen gay and lbian Ethpians terviewed by Newsweek said that's a sick joke; the muny is terrified to seek re. 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.