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Contents:

• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
• GOP CANDIDATE SAYG 'S 'TOTALLY JT' TO KILL GAY PEOPLE RURFAC

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

Over the urse of lbian, gay, or bisexual people's lifetim, one five will experience hate crim, and one four transgenr people will as dividuals at the tersectn of homophobia, transphobia, and racism, face worse statistics. As of July 1, 2019, eight stat have passed legislative bans on the e of gay/trans panic as a legal fense: California, Illois, Rho Island, Nevada, Connecticut, Mae, Hawaii, and New York. It mt be noted that gay/trans panic is not an affirmative legal fense; is a tactic to strengthen the fense by playg on prejudice.

Dpe bunkg "gay panic disorr, " and s removal om the DSM by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn 1973, legal fense teams ntue to e the 1954 murr of William T. Simpson North Miami, FL, the fendants claimed that they shot Simpson, a gay man, while "ristg his advanc, " th utilizg the provotn fense. Even though the fendants were crimals who equented that area of highway to rob drivers, and tentnally targeted homosexual victims, the fendants were nvicted of manslghter rather than first-gree murr.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

The fense aga utilized the provotn fense, cg that the nature of the note and Amre's homosexualy was enough to send Schmz to a panic and kill Amre. The gay/trans panic fense was emed admissible, not due to the illegimacy of the gay/trans panic fense, but stead due to Wyomg's statutory sany fense nstct. Help to end this discrimatn by supportg legislative bans on the gay/trans panic steps you n, and should, take are as follows:Contact legislators and ernors stat currently tryg to ban the gay/trans panic fense.

COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH

Be sure to reach out to feral legislators as an advote stat where there is currently no proposed gay/trans panic ban your own policians know that equaly unr the law should apply to the victims of hate crim as well. They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are.

Half of the untri never follow through on this absolute threat, but e other methods to strip a person of are the six untri that actually kill people for engagg homosexual acts. But the polil ele, by nature, shap the laws and their extremely nservative worldview classifi homosexualy as a crime punishable by ath.

Stong to ath is another form of public executn  a untry that kills hundreds of people each More: Taiwan Be First Place Asia to Legalize Same-Sex MarriageNigeriaRunng unter to much of the rt of the world, Nigeria’s print cid to strengthen anti-homosexual laws 2014.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

Earlier this year, two men were shot public by the terrorist group after beg found havg More: Lebanon Jt Celebrated Its Very First Gay Pri ParaSudanThe first two tim a person gets ught havg gay sex Sudan n lead to 100 lash and imprisonment up to five years. After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg persecuted. The sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored homophobia. To intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

The Tmp admistratn has attacked LGBT rights healthre, employment, hog, tn, merce, the ary, prisons and efforts, turns out, were jt the print’s anti-LGBT agenda uld soon ga signifint momentum at the US supreme urt, where Tmp’s Department of Jtice (DoJ) is phg to make legal to fire people for beg gay or transgenr. ”Tmp’s most aggrsive anti-gay legal argument yetUnr Obama, LGBT people won a number of key victori, cludg the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gay ary members, new protectns unr the Affordable Care Act, an anti-discrimatn executive orr and expand regnn of trans takg office, the Tmp admistratn has sought to reverse healthre protectns for trans people, moved to ban trans people om servg the ary, elimated l protectg trans stunts and phed to allow bs to turn away gay and trans ctomers if they seek a relig month, the Tmp jtice partment ma s most aggrsive anti-gay legal argument to date, urgg the supreme urt to le that gay employe are not protected unr a longstandg act that prohibs “sex discrimatn”.

The DoJ filed briefs related to three supreme urt s to be heard together on 8 October – two volvg gay men fired om their jobs, and a third volvg a woman termated by her employer after she me out as Yorkers prott agast discrimatn towards the LGBT muny the aftermath of the cisn to ban transgenr people om servg the US ary, July 2017. What's TeA Ugandan ernment mister announced an tentn to make homosexualy punishable by ath October 2019; the Natnal Christian Foundatn has fund projects that opposed LGBT rights Uganda; and the WShape Foundatn, closely lked to Chick-fil-A, has fund the Natnal Christian Foundatn. What's FalseHowever, the Ugandan mister did not signal an tent to legalize the murr of LGBT people, and his remarks were quickly ntradicted by the ernment; also, 's not clear to what extent Natnal Christian Foundatn-fund enti were volved the creatn or promotn of a bill to make homosexualy punishable by ath.

WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?

10, Uganda's Mister for Ethics and Integry, Simon Lokodo, told the Rters news agency that the untry's ernment tend to revive a failed 2014 bill, known at the time as the "Kill the Gays" bill, that would make "grave acts" of homosexualy punishable by ath. Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the ath penalty on homosexuals, sayg the legislatn would curb a rise unnatural sex the east Ain natn. The bill - lloquially known as “Kill the Gays” Uganda - was nullified five years ago on a technily and the ernment said plans to rurrect wh weeks.

NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

“Homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recment by gay people schools, and pecially among the youth, where they are promotg the falsehood that people are born like that, ” Ethics and Integry Mister Simon Lokodo told the Thomson Rters Foundatn.

By 2014, however, a bill signed to law would have troduced life imprisonment for homosexualy, but the ath penalty punishment had been removed om s text, part as a rult of ternatnal prsure.

Later 2014, Uganda's Constutnal Court stck down the "Anti-Homosexualy Act" on the basis of a technily relatg to s passage through the untry's Parliament. Two days after Lokodo signaled the ernment's tentn to revive the troductn of the ath penalty for homosexualy October 2019, the ernment prs office self tervened, directly ntradictg the mister's assertns, and wrg a statement:.

GOP CANDIDATE SAYG 'S 'TOTALLY JT' TO KILL GAY PEOPLE RURFAC

Lokodo is a ernment mister and ns the partment (Ethics and Integry) that has recent years overseen legislative efforts around homosexualy. Until or unls Lokodo issu a retractn of his remarks, or further clarifitn is forthg, is simply not clear what the Ugandan ernment's rolved tentns are, as of October 2019, regardg the possible troductn of the ath penalty as a punishment for homosexual acts. Some observers might see an ethil equivalence between imposg state executn as a punishment for homosexualy, on the one hand, and legally permtg any and every civilian to murr another civilian, on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty.

David Behati — who first troduced the Anti-Homosexualy Bill 2009 and was a key player the ensug mpaign — scribed to Sharlet the fluence of a ntroversial Amerin Christian nservative movement known lloquially as "The Fellowship" and "The Fay" visg and enuragg the legislatn, cludg at the early stag when still clud a ath penalty provisn.

Bob Hunter, signated by the Fay as a spokman to rpond to the Uganda fias, has referred to David Bahati, the thor of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill, as a member of the Fay. For rears not faiar wh , by the way, “harsh” is an unrstatement: life imprisonment for gay sex, ath for “serial offenrs, ” seven years for “promotn, ” and three years for failg to turn a known homosexual.