Ugandan police arrted 44 people durg a party to celebrate the engagement of a gay uple held at an LGBT shelter Kampala late May, claimg that they had tervened over health and safety vlatns.…
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GAY LIFE MALI
LGBT Rights Mali: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * mali gay *
HistoryHomosexual activy Mali?
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Homosexual activy Mali is legal. Acrdg to the 2007 Pew Global Attus Project, 98% of Mali rints said that homosexualy should be rejected by society, makg the hight rejectn of homosexualy the 44 untri surveyed. In Mali, there were no publicly visible lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) anizatns the untry.
The ee associatn of LGBT anizatns was imped by a law prohibg associatn “for an immoral purpose”; 2005 the then ernor of the District of Bamako ced this law to refe official regnn to a gay rights associatn. Prented here are six stori that portray a mixed picture of gay life Mali.
The price of beg found out is revealed stori four and five where a ‘married’ gay uple were severely harassed and jured when word got out about their relatnship. Homophobia driv Malian MSM Unrground. Malian men volved same sex practic say that the blatant homophobia, eply rooted wh the Malian society, the stigmatizatn and abe towards Men who have Sex wh other Men (MSM) mak difficult for them to live their liv eely and to exprs their sexual orientatn.
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Although there is no law that specifilly crimalis homosexualy Mali, relign and anctral tradns still play a huge role the untry’s society and same sex practic are highly nmned and seen as immoral and evil acts by the vast majory of the populatn. Malians general are very homophobic and treat homosexuals like dogs”, he says. The patent homophobia society also priv MSM of accs to HIV/AIDS and STI preventn and health re.
In April 2009 a workshop on HIV/AIDS and homosexualy anised by ARCAD/Sida, an HIV and AIDS anisatn based Bamako, had to be ncelled followg protts om the general populatn. “They ma such a fs about this, accg the anisers of tryg to lure teenagers to homosexualy, as a rult we had to ncel the workshop. Recently we were ved to jo Ai gay, a work of LGBTI anisatns that fight agast HIV and AIDS but we had to cle this opportuny for fear of protts by people.