?? Tafadhali bonyeza hapa kupata toleo la mahojiano haya kwa Kiswahili. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Tanzania experience substantial prejudice, discrimatn, and vlence, which has a signifintly negative impact on their well-beg, and are beg nied their most basic human rights. I talked to three Tanzanian LGBT activists who are themselv members…
Contents:
GAY PERSONALS
* gay jamii forum *
Tanzania ma ternatnal headl October 2018 when a regnal official, Pl Makonda, claimed to have tablished a task force to round up all men spected of beg gay the astal cy of Dar Salaam, “tt” them for homosexual nduct, and jail them for life. He lled upon Tanzanians to send him text msag reportg anyone they spected of beg gay, and claimed to have received hundreds of such msag. In a remarkable velopment given Print John Magufuli’s monstrable difference to ternatnal opn and the environment of hostily toward lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people that he has stutnalized, Magufuli affirmed a meetg wh World Bank officials that the ernment would end “discrimatory actns related to harassment and/or arrts” on the basis of sexual orientatn.
In April 2019, wh disregard to both eedom of associatn and the right to health, and clear monstratn of Tanzania’s stutnalized homophobia, the ernment formally registered Communy Health Edutn and Advocy Servic (CHESA), one of Tanzania’s most tablished anizatns workg to advance health and rights for LGBT people. In ntrast, sce 2016, the Mistry of Health has prohibed muny-based anizatns om nductg outreach on HIV preventn to men who have sex wh men and other key populatns, based on the pretext that such anizatns are engaged the “promotn of homosexualy.
” The Mistry closed drop- centers that provid HIV ttg and other servic to key populatns, n many s by ternatnal agenci, assertg that the centers, too, were volved “homosexualy promotnal activi. In some s, police enlist health re provirs to rry out forced anal examatns attempts to fd proof of homosexual nduct.