A proment lear of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny says he is worried about beg “homels,” scribg anguished lls by others like him who are ncerned for their safety after the passg of a tough new anti-gay law.
Contents:
- GHANA ANTI-LGBTQ BILL: WHY HIGH PROFILE GHANAIAN PROFSORS, LAWYERS Y FIGHT AGAST ANTI-GAY BILL
- GAY PRI BILLBOARD PULLED DOWN GHANA’S PAL, ACCRA
- NIGERIAN SENATE PASS ANTI-GAY BILL, FYG BRISH AID THREAT
- UNPACKG THE GEOPOLICS OF UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL
- ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
- WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERERIC LUTZ
- SOUTH AIN ACTIVISTS MONSTRATE AGAST UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY BILL
- UGANDA LGBTQ LEAR SAYS GAY BILL THREATENS HOMELSNS
- UGANDA’S HARSH ANTI-GAY BILL IS NOW LAW
- ‘DEEPLY TROUBLG': UN RIGHTS CHIEF ON UGANDA ANTI-GAY BILL
- UGANDAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST RALLI SUPPORT FOR COMPATRTS AFTER ANTI-GAY BILL
- THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
GHANA ANTI-LGBTQ BILL: WHY HIGH PROFILE GHANAIAN PROFSORS, LAWYERS Y FIGHT AGAST ANTI-GAY BILL
The Nigerian senate has passed a bill banng same-sex marriag, fyg a threat om Bra to whhold aid om natns vlatg gay rights. * gay bill africa *
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The bill passed Tuday nearly a month after Brish prime mister, David Cameron, threatened to whhold aid om natns vlatg gays rights, sparkg outrage Ai where lears terpreted as “lonial” display of power. Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support.
GAY PRI BILLBOARD PULLED DOWN GHANA’S PAL, ACCRA
Ugandan lawmakers on Tuday approved some of the world's harsht anti-gay laws, makg some crim punishable by ath and imposg up to 20 years prison for people intifyg as LGBTQ+. * gay bill africa *
Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights.
Acrdg to the bill, the ath penalty n be voked for s volvg “aggravated homosexualy” – a broad term ed the legislatn to scribe sex acts mted whout nsent or unr durs, agast children, people wh mental or physil disabili, by a “serial offenr, ” or volvg ct. “A person who ms the offense of aggravated homosexualy and is liable, on nvictn to suffer ath, ” read the amendments, which were prented by the chairperson for legal and parliamentary affairs Roba Rwakoojo. Opposn lawmaker Asuman Basalirwa troduced the Anti Homosexualy Bill 2023 to parliament, sayg aims to “protect our church culture; the legal, relig and tradnal fay valu of Ugandans om the acts that are likely to promote sexual promiscuy this untry.
NIGERIAN SENATE PASS ANTI-GAY BILL, FYG BRISH AID THREAT
More than 200 activists monstrated outsi the Ugandan High Commissn South Ai to prott agast the anti-gay bill awag approval by Print Meveni * gay bill africa *
In Bundi, prosecutors have charged 24 people wh engagg same-sex acts and cg homosexualy others, part of a crackdown on LGBTQI+ rights that has been cricised by the Uned Natns. He repeated this more strongly January 2023 when he told the Ugandan parliament of the “paful, gelg stori” he had heard, and how many kids and fai were “dyg silence” om the “psychologil damage of forced recment to homosexualy”.
And ed, at the center of the current wave of anti-gay sentiments is what is perceived to be the ‘promotn and recment’ of the LBGT muny -somethg for which the Wt is held rponsible – and how children are targeted this ntext. A strikg example was a moral panic around rabows, which were seen as the symbol of LGBTI recment: the words of Uganda’s Natnal Parents Associatn, rabow lors were ‘satanic’, signallg an ‘vasn of homosexualy through manipulatn of children’s mds’. Soon after, the Uganda Mlim Supreme Council lled on all Mlims to hold peaceful monstratns after the Friday sermon to exprs their disagreement wh homosexualy, a vice which has “reared s ugly head targetg, pecially young people”.
First, for all the anti-gay rhetoric prent Uganda, there has never been a succsful prosecutn of nsensual same-sex activy post-lonial Uganda – this, acrdg to activists, analysts and journalists. There have been attacks and protts on those acced of promotg homosexualy, most recently, the attack on a sendary school teacher Jja by parents who acced her of promotg lbianism. Wh an enomy still heavily pennt on foreign aid, and keen to promote self as an attractive statn for FDI, Meveni is well aware of the damage official homophobia n do to Uganda’s enomy, not least the experience of 2014 when Wtern ernments cut aid worth $100 ln retaliatn to the 2014 anti-gay law.
UNPACKG THE GEOPOLICS OF UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL
And ed, the fluence of US evangelils on the 2013 anti-gay bill is wily known: om 2009 onwards, a number of Amerin nservative evangelils – centered around Stt Lively – travelled to Uganda, lobbyg relig figur such as Pastor Mart Ssempa, or the sponsor of the 2014 Bill, David Bahati. On the morng of the troductn of the Bill, Ana Among, the Speaker said: “We want to appreciate our promoters of homosexualy for the soc-enomic velopment they have brought to the untry, …but we don’t appreciate the money that they are brgg to stroy our culture.
In rponse to pleas by the Church of Uganda, Print Meveni recently vowed: “Uganda will not embrace homosexualy and the Wt should stop seekg to impose s views to pel dissentg untri to normalize viatns (…) The Europeans are not normal, they don’t listen.
In the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab" I met Mr Kaluma - a member of veteran Kenyan opposn polician Raila Odga's Orange Democratic Movement - he was stg behd his sk at his office the pal Nairobi, proof-readg and makg rrectns to a bill that he tends to table parliament soon. "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual Kaluma tells me he wants their asylum to be revoked, and for them to leave a small, hidn church set up to offer fort and support to LGBTQ people central Nairobi, the female pastor says Mr Kaluma's bill is g "a lot of panic, anxiety, fear".
ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
Although the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".
"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma 's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai. "Fay Watch oppos legislatn that penalis a person for havg sexual attractns or for how they intify, " she says an emailed rponse to the Slater addrsed Ain lawmakers, clerics and mpaigners at their fom Uganda's laki cy of Entebbe March, and later appeared a group photo wh Print Meveni at his official more than 20 years, Mrs Slater has lobbied ernments on what she lls "fay valu" and has ma her missn to mpaign agast children and young people beg given Comprehensive Sexualy Edutn (CSE), a curriculum-based sex tn programme champned by the Uned Natns and other c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic.
WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy" I ntact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Ai, for ment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposn", as she refers to adds that the manual is only a guile, and each untry n tailor to su their Bakaroudis fends CSE, sayg provis "life-savg rmatn" to curb high rat of untend pregnanci, HIV, and sexually transmted diseas. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.
The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.
RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERERIC LUTZ
DeSantis expand his “Don’t Say Gay” law this year, and the Florida Board of Edutn voted Wednday for l that took even further — cludg by barrg teachers om askg stunts their preferred pronouns. 3 of 5 | FILE - Kenyan gays and lbians and others supportg their e wear masks to prerve their anonymy as they stage a rare prott agast Uganda’s tough stance agast homosexualy and solidary wh their unterparts there, outsi the Uganda High Commissn Nairobi, Kenya on Feb.
3 of 5FILE - Kenyan gays and lbians and others supportg their e wear masks to prerve their anonymy as they stage a rare prott agast Uganda’s tough stance agast homosexualy and solidary wh their unterparts there, outsi the Uganda High Commissn Nairobi, Kenya on Feb. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A proment lear of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny said Thursday he was worried about beg “homels, ” scribg anguished lls by others like him who are ncerned for their safety after the passg of a harsh new anti-gay bill. ”The bill was troduced last month by an opposn lawmaker who said his goal was to punish the “promotn, recment and fundg” of LGBTQ activi this East Ain untry where homosexuals are wily disparaged.
” But civilian thori for years have urged a more sweepg bill targetg homosexuals after one enacted 2014 was nullified on procral grounds by a panel of judg amid tense ternatnal prsure. He was also a gut at FWI’s Ain Fay Policy Conference last October, held, wh no sense of irony, of those attendg share a belief that the liberal Wt is tryg to sexualise children ( bat about Uganda’s new law, policians routely nflate homosexualy and paedophilia).
SOUTH AIN ACTIVISTS MONSTRATE AGAST UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY BILL
A meetg Mosw 1995 between an Amerin historian and two Rsian soclogists who blamed homosexualy for populatn cle laid the ground for the World Congrs of Fai, an Amerin anti-gay work that oppos same-sex marriage, promot “the natural fay” and has anised nferenc Ai. ” ■This article appeared the Middle East & Ai sectn of the prt edn unr the headle "A harsh anti-gay bill is now law"From the June 3rd 2023 ednDisver stori om this sectn and more the list of ntents Explore the edn.
2 of 3 | FILE - Kenyan gays and lbians and others supportg their e wear masks to prerve their anonymy as they stage a rare prott agast Uganda’s tough stance agast homosexualy and solidary wh their unterparts there, outsi the Uganda High Commissn Nairobi, Kenya on Feb. 2 of 3FILE - Kenyan gays and lbians and others supportg their e wear masks to prerve their anonymy as they stage a rare prott agast Uganda’s tough stance agast homosexualy and solidary wh their unterparts there, outsi the Uganda High Commissn Nairobi, Kenya on Feb.
UGANDA LGBTQ LEAR SAYS GAY BILL THREATENS HOMELSNS
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Uned Natns rights chief on Wednday urged Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni to block an anti-LGBTQ bill that prcrib harsh penalti for some homosexual offens, cludg ath and life imprisonment. Uganda’s legislature passed the bill late Tuday a protracted plenary ssn durg which last-mute chang were ma to the legislatn that origally clud penalti of up to 10 years jail for homosexual offens. Acrdg to the bill, a spect nvicted of “attempted aggravated homosexualy” n be jailed for 14 years, and the offense of “attempted homosexualy” is punishable by up to 10 years.
”The bill was troduced last month by an opposn lawmaker who said his goal was to punish “promotn, recment and fundg” related to LGBTQ activi this East Ain untry where homosexuals are wily disparaged. The recent cisn of the Church of England to bls civil marriag of same-sex upl also has flamed many, cludg some who see homosexualy as imported om ’s LGBTQ muny recent years has faced growg prsure om civilian thori who wanted a tough new law punishg same-sex activi.
By Cathere Schenck and Rachel SavageJOHANNESBURG (Rters) - DeLovie Kwagala (Papa De), a queer Ugandan photographer and activist, was livg South Ai when the news me that Uganda's parliament had passed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ bill, which passed March, impos severe penalti cludg 20 years prison for "promotg" homosexualy and for certa crim that volve gay sex, the ath penalty.
UGANDA’S HARSH ANTI-GAY BILL IS NOW LAW
Kwagala said they had experienced a lany of discrimatn Uganda, cludg beg jailed for two days after beg arrted at a gay bar, gettg evicted for livg wh a girliend and beg sexually asslted by burecrats. The Ugandan print, Yoweri Meveni, has lled on Ain lears to reject “the promotn of homosexualy”, suggtg he will sign to law a ntroversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which was passed by parliament last bill, which impos the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” and life imprisonment for “recment, promotn and fundg” of same-sex “activi”, has been wily cricised ternatnally, wh the UN high missner for human rights urgg the print not to sign . Speakg on Sunday, Meveni said homosexualy was “a big threat and danger to the procreatn of human race [sic]” said: “Ai should provi the lead to save the world om this generatn and nce, which is really very dangero for humany.
‘DEEPLY TROUBLG': UN RIGHTS CHIEF ON UGANDA ANTI-GAY BILL
Meveni praised Ugandan MPs for passg the anti-gay bill and vowed “never to allow the promotn and publicisatn of homosexualy Uganda, strsg that will never be tolerated” past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnA Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist, who asked to rema anonymo for their own safety, attend the nference via Zoom unr a psdonym. Nilas Opiyo, a Ugandan human rights lawyer and mpaigner, told the Guardian: “The wave of homophobia and transphobia Uganda, and the regn, has nothg to do wh Ugandan or Ain valu. In a 2020 report released by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Associatn, nearly half of the 69 untri where homosexualy is still crimalized are Ain untri.
In ls than six months, the muny has e unr tense and repeated attacks om policians, the police, relig groups, and anti-gay anizatns, cludg a heavily biased media mted to pilloryg and misreprentg an already margalized group.
UGANDAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST RALLI SUPPORT FOR COMPATRTS AFTER ANTI-GAY BILL
A report released 2016 by Human Rights Watch highlighted a particularly chillg cint outsi Abuja, Nigeria’s pal, where a vlent armed mob of more than 50 people went om home to home, draggg out and beatg dividuals spected of beg gay.
In November 2021, we reported on an “anti-gay” bill that had begun to make s way through Ghana’s Parliament, a bill crimalizg the very existence of LGBTQ+ dividuals as well as LGBTQ+ ntroversial bill which was tled the "Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill" proposed up to five years prison for LGBTQ+ Ghanaians, forced medil procr for tersex children, jail terms for fay members and teachers who fail to report gay relativ and stunts, jail terms for public displays of same-sex affectn or cross drsg, a 10-year jail term for LGBTQ+ advocy, crimalizg the distributn of material emed pro-LGBTQ+ by the prs, among other harsh legislatn that puts LGBTQ+ dividuals and their loved on at risk of fallg victim to state-sanctned discrimatn or bill marked what at the time was the peak of the backlash that the muny faced last year. 1654708109Startg om the anti-gay bill which appeared to have stalled sce ’s troductn to Ghana’s Parliament late last year, polians vted the succs of the targeted legislatn are attemptg to force the now notor 38-page bill to passg.
He exprsed spicns that the passage of the bill was beg tentnally layed, and stated that he along wh other members of his polil party would rist any other bill that before Parliament until the anti-gay bill has been acted upon, even if those bills aim to brg velopment to their rpective muni. Samuel Nartey Gee, the Ghanaian polician and lawmaker champng the anti-gay bill led a aln to mount prsure on the police to tear down the billboard, which was succsful as the billboard end up beg torn down after jt days of beg up.
THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
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