‘We’re Sred’: Namibia’s New Gay Rights Are Already at Risk

'SEND-CLASS CIZENS'? NAMIBIA L AGAST GAY UPL

LGBT Rights Namibia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * namibia gay rights *

Homosexualy⚢✖ Male illegal, female legalGay Marriage⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriag regnized onlyCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment Discrimatn✖ Sexual orientatn onlyHog Discrimatn✖ Sexual orientatn onlyConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

Homosexual activy Namibia is male illegal, female illegal, female legal Not enforced (crimalizatn pendg)Same-sex marriage Namibia?

Foreign same-sex marriag regnized only Namibian state do not perform same-sex marriage, however numero s foreign same sex marriag have been regnized and parental rights have even been granted to gay upl lookg to adopt. Namibia don’t explicly outlaw homosexualy but a lonial-era “sodomy law” crimalis sex between men.

NAMIBIA GAY RIGHTS NEWSWIRE

Namibia's High Court led on Thursday agast two gay upl fightg for regnn of their marriag, wh the judge sayg she agreed wh them but was bound by the natn's prohibn of same-sex relatns. * namibia gay rights *

While the 16 May lg only appli to limed s and do not legalise gay marriage, Digashu’s lawyer, Carli Schickerlg, se as “the start of real change” lg that the ligants’ “rights to digny and equaly” were vlated, the supreme urt nced “a major prciple on which we will argue many s the future”, she the uple filed their se 2017, after Digashu’s visa was nied, was the first se 17 years to be brought to the urts over LGBTQ+ issu, acrdg to Schickerlg. In 2001, the untry’s foundg print, Sam Nujoma, lled for homosexuals to be arrted, triggerg a wave of attacks.

Photograph: Chris Beer-ProcterA 2019-2021 study by the Aobarometer work has sce ranked Namibia as the third most tolerant of homosexualy on the ntent, after Cabo Ver and South Ai. Photograph: Chris Beer-ProcterVan Reenen -found Equal Namibia 2021, mobilisg support of a gay uple whose South Ain-born children were not allowed to the untry. “We advote for an enactment of an act of parliament to explicly prohib the practice of homosexualy Namibia, ” says the prott’s lear, Shirley Magazi, chair of the Christian Coaln of ernment says is “nductg a legal asssment” of the lg’s implitns “before termg the appropriate urse of actn wh the available nstutnal parameters”.