Uganda’s anti-gay bill is the latt and worst to target LGBTQ Ains

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• TOP 10 AIN COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGAL
• WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL IS THE LATT AND WORST TO TARGET LGBTQ AINS
• VATNS TO AI: THE BT UNTRI AI FOR GAY TRAVELLERS
• TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS AI AND THE MIDDLE EAST

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr vios posted on social media late on Friday, Healy was seen kissg bassist Ross MacDonald after cricizg Malaysia’s stance agast homosexualy a profany-lan speech to the ftival dience. On the back of Ghana’s posn of makg love a crime we take a look at untri where homosexual activi are legal, and if such referendum should be held LGBT mpaigners are most likely to w.

REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File PhotoLIMA, July 21 (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated. Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay. However, 61% disapproved of gay people public Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years.

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. 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".

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

"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.

TOP 10 AIN COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGAL

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".

WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?

"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.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

My wner this year is Maddie Benr, a recent Yale graduate (the panmic layed our trip) — and wh that, I’m handg the rt of the lumn over to Maddie BenrFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When Abdul was a teenager and g to terms wh beg gay, he was attacked by a group of men.

They mocked him wh homophobic slurs and asslted him wh broken beer bottl, slicg his thumb reported the attack to the police and was told that an arrt uld be ma — of him, for Leone is one of more than 30 Ain natns (over half the ntent) that crimalize same-sex relatns. People still suffer danger and discrimatn Ameri, travelg wh Nick Wt Ai offered a wdow to the immense adversy queer people experience here — and their rilience and urage the face of Ai is not uniformly homophobic, and I found some physil and virtual space emergg for L. A 2020 review of Ains’ attus toward homosexualy suggts that equent ter ers are more likely to be tolerant of gay teenagers the cy of Makeni northern Sierra Leone, Fatmata Bta Jalloh, 17, and Marie Kamara, 16, told me that while they believe homosexualy don’t exist their untry, they’ve seen plenty of gay people onle.

UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL IS THE LATT AND WORST TO TARGET LGBTQ AINS

People — but after talkg to people like Fatmata and Marie, I spect that our greatt tool for makg change is soft should be outraged by how far the Christian right has gone to support the persecutn of gay people Ain untri. To help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartac has published a new report for lbian, gay, trans, and queer travellers about how gay-iendly a untry is. LGBTQ+ and gay travellers n e this rmatn as a guile to prepare for their gaytn and take the x rankg as an ditor for choosg the holiday statn regardg the lol LGBTQ+ rights.

The rankg of the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2020/2021 is based on diverse sourc such as Human Rights Watch, the UN mpaign Free & Equal, and llected rmatn about human rights vlatns of members of the LGBTQ+ muny throughout the past year.

The home affairs mister has threatened to shut down NGOs promotg gay rights, while even the print has weighed , statg somewhat bizarrely that "even ws disapprove" of same-sex attu is ditive of wispread social norms, and ed laws, across much of the ntent. This map, provid by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), shows where homosexual activi or clatns are crimalized, cludg thirty-three Ain untri. BotswanaAnyone who has "rnal knowledge of any person agast the orr of nature"—a phrase often ed legal s to refer to homosexual activy—n be sentenced to prison for up to seven years.

VATNS TO AI: THE BT UNTRI AI FOR GAY TRAVELLERS

EgyptEgyptian law do not specifilly proscribe nsensual homosexual relatns between adults, but other laws—cludg those banng bchery and prostutn—have been ed to imprison gay men the past. Members of the South Ain Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr and Intersex (LGBTI) muny chant slogans as they take part the annual Gay Pri Para, as part of the three-day Durban Pri Ftival, Durban, South Ai, on June 24.

LiberiaLiberian law f homosexualy—along wh oral sex and sex or sexual touchg between unmarried heterosexual persons—as "viate sexual terurse, " which is classed as a first-gree mismeanour rryg a one-year prison sentence. Twelve stat northern Nigeria—which is predomantly Mlim—have adopted shariah law, unr which the maximum penalty for homosexual activy between men is ath, and for women is whippg and/or imprisonment. In southern areas ntrolled by Al-Shabab, a strict terpretatn of sharia law is implemented and homosexual sex is punishable by SudanThe world's youngt untry punish what lls "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" wh a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS AI AND THE MIDDLE EAST

A gay uple, who wish to rema anonymo, who fled adly persecutn their home untry due to their sexual-orientatn is pictured durg an terview the Kenyan pal, Nairobi, on January 12, 2012.

A group of people om the gay, lbian and transgenr muny South Ai monstrate outsi the Parliament Cape Town agast proposed chang to the nstutn that would repeal a prohibn on discrimatn on the grounds of sexualy, on May 19, 2012. In an attempt to help terme the worst plac for gay travelers, the duo created the 2019 LGBTQ+ Danger Inx, rankg the world’s most dangero—and saft—untri for gay travelers. The journalists looked at the top 150 most-vised untri the world by the number of g tourists, then ranked them g eight factors, cludg laws agast gay relatnships, legal protectn agast discrimatn and more.