Kenya LGBTQ Communy In Fear After Backlash on Gay Rights Rulg

Contents:

• GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA
• WHAT IS EVERYDAY GAY AND LBIAN LIFE LIKE KENYA?
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• KENYA LGBTQ COMMUNY IN FEAR AFTER BACKLASH ON GAY RIGHTS RULG
• KENYA GAY TRAVEL
• GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LKS LIST COLLECTN

GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA

By CountryBy Year FoundA list of LGBT anizatns and groups and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) The Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) is foced on promotg regnn, acceptance and fend the terts and rights of LGBTI anizatns and their members…Ishtar MSMIshtar MSM is a Communy Based Organizatn Kenya who aimed at attag full sexual health rights and social well beg for Men who have sex wh men (MSM) Kenya. In a untry where many nsir homosexualy to be “un-Ain, ” the High Court cisn will mark a watershed moment a twenty-year stggle. When we refer to “LGBTIQ rights, ” we are referrg to the stggle for social and polil rights for people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and/or queer.

WHAT IS EVERYDAY GAY AND LBIAN LIFE LIKE KENYA?

While same-sex relatns (“homosexualy”) have been practiced among var groups Kenya for centuri, is only the last three or four s that Kenyans have begun to self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, or (most recently) queer. Acrdg to the 2013 Pew Global Attus Project, 90 percent of Kenyan rints believe that society should not accept homosexualy as a way of life. Kenya’s now-ntted penal outlaws homosexualy as an “unnatural offense” which is fed as “agast the orr of nature.

Efforts to outlaw and elimate same-sex relatns and genr nonnformy durg the lonial perd were so succsful that post-lonial lears joed others cryg homosexualy as “un-Ain” and anathema to Kenyan tradnal valu and ctoms. Homosexual relatns are now illegal, and vlence agast people who engage same-sex relatns Kenya is well-documented.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Wh this ntext of both symbolic (legal) and physil vlence agast LGBTIQ people, Kenyans mt nstantly negotiate the ntradictns of queer visibily — when and how to intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and/or queer. ” As noted on their webse, “this play created an open and safe platform to discs and reflect on what means to be a homosexual. The Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) set up a tent that they dubbed “the Q spot” and distributed poetry, displayed artwork, and answered qutns om the public.

Both of the activist groups began to document the mistreatment of LGBTIQ people Kenya and to argue support of the crimalizatn of homosexualy. In 2012, six young legal advot tablished the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC) and, soon thereafter, held a jot gala event wh the KHRC promotg dialogue on genr and sexual diversy and celebratg achievements the fight for LGBTIQ rights. The NGLHRC also lnched an impact ligatn program and, jt last year, succsfully challenged the practice of forced anal exams; the exams were admistered to men orr to prove their homosexualy and prosecute them.

KENYA LGBTQ COMMUNY IN FEAR AFTER BACKLASH ON GAY RIGHTS RULG

The film premiered at the 2018 Cann Film Ftival, and , too, was promptly banned by the Kenya Film Classifitn Board (KFCB) due to s “homosexual theme and clear tent to promote lbianism Kenya ntrary to the law. In 2010, KTN published “Gay Kenyans Come Out, ” a report on the public celebratn of Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia.

The report not the legal punishment for homosexualy, implicly regnizg the urage of the activists, and, to date, has over 91, 000 views on YouTube.

In 2014, KTN Weekend Prime produced “Beg Gay Kenya, ” a feature that explor the qutn of how Kenyan society is grapplg wh homosexualy.

KENYA GAY TRAVEL

In the report, Eric Gari, the lawyer who -found the NGLHRC and who is now a lear the legal fight to crimalize homosexualy, scrib his g out procs on social media. The song is a remix of the 2012 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis song of the same name featurg Mary Lambert, which beme a rallyg cry for gay marriage the U.

If the Kenyan urts ci that crimalizg homosexualy do not vlate the human rights cls of the 2010 nstutn, a luta ntua: the stggle ntu.

Image source, Getty ImagKenyan thori were wrong to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn, the untry's Supreme Court has at the same time strsed that gay sex remas judg led three-to-two that the untry's NGO board was wrong to stop the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC) om registerg Kenya's hight urt, the Supreme Court's lg nnot be their judgment, the judg led that " would be unnstutnal to lim the right to associate, through nial of registratn of an associatn, purely on the basis of the sexual orientatn of the applints".

GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LKS LIST COLLECTN

Laws which were troduced unr Brish lonial le mean that is crimal to have sex that "is agast the orr of nature", which n rult up to 14 years May 2019, Kenya's high urt rejected an attempt to overturn the 's judgement ends a 10-year legal battle which began 2013 when Eric Gari, the former executive director of the NGLHRC, challenged the head of Kenya NGO Coordatn Board's refal to perm him to apply to register an NGO unr a name ntag the words gay or lbian. Members of the LGBTQI+ muny have been harassed by police, subjected to body examatns to "prove" gay sex, and openly sulted on social media and public spac.

Some say they have even been nied healthre and thrown out of rental ho for beg gay. On the day of the judgement, Member of Parliament Gee Peter Kaluma filed an official notice that he tend to troduce a bill which would jail for life people nvicted of homosexualy or the promotn of Friday's Supreme Court lg arguably torpedo any attempts to legally harass openly gay people wh new laws, Mr Kaluma n still rally MPs to crease jail terms for gay is also illegal to have gay sex neighbourg Uganda, where Mlim lears ed Friday prayers to preach agast head of the untry's Mlims, Mufti Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje, lled on the thori to enact even tougher laws agast same-sex was speakg at the Old Kampala mosque the pal, Kampala, where hundreds had gathered for Friday prayers. Earlier the week, the Uganda Mlim Supreme Council circulated a letter to all clerics unr s associatn gazettg Friday as the day to rry out peaceful protts agast homosexualy clerics were asked to prepare sermons nmng same-sex relatns and extend the same msage to the media and the event, the protts were only held the eastern cy of rights activist Frank Mugisha scribed the protts as dangero, sayg they uld crease s of vlence agast those who intify as has been a recent surge homophobic sentiment the week, Print Yoweri Meveni said Uganda would not embrace homosexualy and that the Wt should stop tryg to impose s views and "normalise" what he lled "viatns".

”Rearch suggts acceptance of homosexualy is gradually creasg Kenya, but remas a taboo subject for many.

The untry’s film board has banned two films for their portrayals of gay liv  recent Natnal Police Service spokperson Rila Onyango said she would ment at a later time. Edw Chiloba was a fighter, fightg relentlsly to change the hearts and mds of society when me to LGBTQ+ liv, ” GALCK, a Kenyan gay rights group, said on a Brish lonial-era law, gay sex Kenya is punishable by 14 years prison.