I'm 14, I'm gay & I want a boyiend | Peter Tatchell

Contents:

• MALAWI GAY UPLE GET MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 14 YEARS
• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
• I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND
• MALAWIAN GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 14 YEARS
• GAY UPLE ULD GET 14 YEARS PRISON
• GAY COUPLE MALAWI GET MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 14 YEARS PRISON
• MALAWI GAY UPLE GET 14 YEARS PRISON
• MALAWI GIV GAY UPLE 14 YEARS JAIL; PUBLIC CHEERS
• 12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
• GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 14 YEARS - WH HARD LABOUR

MALAWI GAY UPLE GET MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 14 YEARS

Image ptn, The pair were arrted after holdg an engagement ceremony last DecemberA judge Malawi has imposed a maximum sentence of 14 years prison wh hard labour on a gay uple nvicted of gross cency and unnatural judge said he wanted to protect the public om "people like you" Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, have been jail sce they were arrted December after holdg an engagement se has sparked ternatnal nmnatn and a bate about homosexualy the Brish ernment, Malawi's largt donor, exprsed s "dismay" at the sentenc, but has not whdrawn aid.

The worst fears of a gay uple Malawi and supporters across the world were realised today when they were sentenced to 14 years jail wh hard Monjeza, 26, and 20-year-old Tiwonge Chimbalanga, nvicted earlier this week of unnatural acts and gross cency, now face "hell on earth" the maximum secury Chichiri prison Blantyre, where they have been held on sentence, the harsht possible that the judge uld have hand down, provoked outrage om human rights activists the southern Ain untry, where homosexual acts are illegal, and om the ternatnal first same sex uple Malawi to seek marriage will now jo a populatn of 12, 000 mat sttered throughout the untry's 23 prisons. STORY HIGHLIGHTSCouple charged unr Malawi's lonial-era sodomy lawsCouple arrted after December engagement, face sentencg on TudayMalawi is nservative Christian natn (CNN) -- A gay uple Malawi who celebrated their unn a tradnal engagement ceremony uld be sentenced to up to 14 years of hard labor, acrdg to lawyers faiar wh the se.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTGay Couple Malawi Get Maximum Sentence of 14 Years PrisonMay 20, 2010JOHANNESBURG — Two gay men Malawi, nvicted this week of unnatural acts and gross cency, were sentenced Thursday to the maximum penalty allowed by law, 14 years of hard labor prison.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

((Alex Ntonya/Associated Prs))A judge sentenced a uple to the maximum 14 years prison wh hard labour unr Malawi's anti-gay legislatn, and crowds jeered the two men as they were driven om the urthoe to jail harsh sentence for unnatural acts and gross cency had been expected after the same judge nvicted Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza earlier this week unr laws datg om the lonial era.

The pennt Centre for the Development of People was recently formed by Malawians to fight for the rights of homosexuals and other Trapence, executive director of the Centre for the Development of People, was at the urthoe Thursday and told reporters: "How n they get 14 years simply for lovg one another? “Laws crimalizg homosexualy and genr inty crimalize the legimate exercise of the human rights, which are protected treati ratified by Malawi, cludg the Internatnal Covenant on Civil and Polil Rights and the Ain Charter on Human and People’s Rights, ” read the was unclear, however, if the nvictn would translate to rced donor fundg.

There was no plat or victim and the are the issu we have to look at, ” says Gift Trapence, executive director of the Center Development of People (Cep) reflects public sentementBut spe the cricism and risk of losg donor support, Malawi's anti-homosexualy law appears to roundly reflect popular sentiment here and across Ai, where 37 untri ban homosexualy outright.

I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND

François Bikoro, the edor of the popular (and populist) Cameroonian weekly L'Anecdote – which, like a number of publitns across the ntent, has published lists of people acc of beg gay, acpanied by headl like "The Queers Are Among Us" – reckons circulatn has creased om 5, 000 to "more than 20, 000" sce "we began alg wh homosexualy" there's no evince, of urse, that Monjeza, 26, and Chimbalanga, 33, are activists at all.

What they did, last December, was clare their tentn to marry at an engagement party Blantyre, Malawi, a small south-east Ain untry whose print, Bgu wa Mutharika, has scribed homosexualy as "evil and bad before the ey of God" and somethg "we Malawians jt do not do". Across the world there are 76 untri which people n be prosecuted bee of their sexual orientatn, acrdg to the latt annual survey of the legal stat of homosexualy by the Internatnal Gay and Lbian of those untri – 38 out of the ntent's 53 stat – are Ai. Unsurprisgly, when the UN general assembly issued a claratn on crimalisg homosexualy 2008, only six Ain untri uld be persuad to Zimbabwe, where Print Robert Mugabe once famoly clared homosexualy to be "sub-animal behavur" – "leave that to the wh, " he also said – the fn of sodomy, already outlawed as an "unnatural sexual act", has been expand to clu any "act volvg ntact between two mal that would be regard by a reasonable person as an cent act", meanwhile, unr tense ternatnal prsure, appears to be havg send thoughts about tablg legislatn that would make homosexualy punishable by extradn and, some s, executn, and also required Ugandans to report wh 24 hours anyone known to have mted a homosexual Nigeria, where former print Olegun Obasanjo believ homosexualy "is clearly unbiblil, unnatural and fely unAin", anyone who "has rnal knowledge of any person agast the orr of nature" is punishable by up to 14 years jail (that's the Christian south.

MALAWIAN GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 14 YEARS

More alarmgly, sce 2008, when a lol tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clanste gay weddg Dakar, police have been crackg down, many homosexuals have gone to hidg or fled abroad (cludg to Gambia, whose print told them they should leave aga wh 24 hours or face patn), ne gay activists have been jailed after g out, and the bodi of at least four gay men have been exhumed om their grav and dragged through the streets by jeerg South Ai, the first untry the world to adopt a nstutn ntag explic provisns agast discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn, activists report that police routely turn a bld eye to creasgly vlent crim agast Simelane, who played for the South Ain women's football team and lived openly as a lbian, was gang-raped and stabbed 25 tim; at least 20 other lbians have been killed over the past five years, many of them victims of so-lled "rrective rape" by unrlyg reasons for what amounts, almost, to ntent-wi homophobia are many and plex but boil down, says Blsg-Mil Tendi, a Zimbabwean-born rearcher Ain polics at Universy of Oxford, to three: endurg myths about Ain culture (unhappily bed wh the existence of lonial-era legislatn); the power and fluence of relign; and the black male's nceptn of masculy. " In fact, he pots out, anthropologists have shown that homosexual practic were perfectly accepted many Ain cultur the pre-lonial rearcher EE Evans-Prchard scribed how until the early 20th-century, male Azan warrrs the northern Congo routely married male youths who functned as temporary wiv. To some extent, he argu, a proxy war is now beg fought out on the ntent: an already nservative Ain church is beg enuraged by the wtern – particularly the Amerin – evangelil right to mobilise ernment and popular opn agast pro-gay rights groups who are, many s, supported by their unterparts the of the key battl that has been Uganda, where the troductn of that now-famo anti-homosexual private members' bill was preced by a wily reported vis om three proment US evangelils, Stt Lively om Defend the Fay Internatnal, Don Schmierer, who reportedly works wh "sexual revery groups", and Caleb Lee Bndidge, an "ex-gay" now workg as a "sexual reorientatn ach" they've sce disclaimed any rponsibily for the bill, acrdg to news reports they held several meetgs and semars for Ugandan MPs.

Lively also believ that Aids is a ftg punishment for gays, and that to legalise homosexualy would be to legalise child moltatn and this potent homophobic cktail of myth and relign is add, Tendi says, "the nstctn of a certa kd of black masculy.

GAY UPLE ULD GET 14 YEARS PRISON

"Jt as Hawaii's high urt seemed poised to allow same-sex marriag, gay activists have seen their visns of legal weddgs on the beach of Mi disappear as voters approved Constutnal Amendment 2, givg the legislature power to 'rerve marriage to oppose-sex upl.

"Rabbis belongg to the biggt and most liberal branch of Judaism the Uned Stat have voted to regnise the partnerships of gay and lbian Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanctn relig ceremoni for same-sex Print of the Conference, Rabbi Charl Kroloff, said that gay and lbian people served the regnn and rpect due to people created the image of God.

GAY COUPLE MALAWI GET MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 14 YEARS PRISON

"Before the lg [Supreme Court lg that laws makg gay sex a crime were unnstutnal], supporters the Hoe [US Hoe of Reprentativ] of a nstutnal amendment that would more formally rtrict marriage to the unn of a man and a woman were havg trouble attractg sponsors.

"A unty clerk issued marriage licens Friday to at least 15 gay upl, some of whom then exchanged vows outsi the urthoe, as more same-sex upl led up for a chance to tie the Mexi law f marriage as a ntract between ntractg parti but do not mentn genr. 24, 2004] while makg his most revealg public ments so far about the sexual orientatn of his gay his posn on the subject at a town hall meetg here, Cheney replied: 'Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so 's an issue that our fay is very faiar wh.... 'In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ' he wrote, 'the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl.

MALAWI GAY UPLE GET 14 YEARS PRISON

Proposn 8 was the most expensive proposn on any ballot the natn this year, wh more than $74 ln spent by both measure's most fervent proponents believed that nothg ls than the future of tradnal fai was at stake, while opponents believed that they were fightg for the fundamental right of gay people to be treated equally unr the years ago, Californians voted 61% to fe marriage as beg only between a man and a California Supreme Court overturned that measure, Proposn 22, s May 15 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage on the grounds that the state Constutn required equal treatment of gay and lbian upl. Cuomo signed the measure after passed a Republin-ntrolled Senate on Friday night [June 24, 2011], raisg qutns as to whether the move reflects new momentum the gay rights said the law will grant same-sex upl equal rights to marry 'as well as hundreds of rights, benefs and protectns that are currently limed to married upl of the oppose sex.

Print history to fully embrace that level of civil rights for ’s announcement gave an immediate jolt to the s-long movement for gay equaly at a moment when a growg number of stat are movg to ban — or legalize — same-sex unns and as polls show a majory of Amerins support marriage rights. "Voters Mae and Maryland approved same-sex marriage on a day of electn rults that jubilant gay rights advot lled a historic turng pot, the first time that marriage for gay men and lbians has been approved at the ballot Mnota, another first, voters rejected a proposal to amend the State Constutn to fe marriage as between a man and a woman, a measure that has been enshred the nstutns of 30 stat.

"The Supreme Court stck down a key part of the feral Defense of Marriage Act on Wednday and clared that same-sex upl who are legally married serve equal rights to the benefs unr feral law that go to all other married cisn is a landmark w for the gay rights movement. Dissentg were Jtic John Roberts, Anton Slia, Samuel Alo and Clarence lg means that more than 100, 000 gay and lbian upl who are legally married will be able to take advantage of tax breaks, pensn rights and other benefs that are available to other married upl. "The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg Wednday private parti do not have 'standg' to fend California's voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned lg clears the way for same-sex marriag California to 5-4 cisn avoids, for now, a sweepg ncln on whether same-sex marriage is a nstutnal 'equal protectn' right that would apply to all issue was whether the Constutn's guarantee of equal protectn unr the law prevents stat om fg marriage to exclu same-sex upl, and whether a state n revoke same-sex marriage through referendum, as California did, once already has been a majory of the Supreme Court opted not to le on those issu.

MALAWI GIV GAY UPLE 14 YEARS JAIL; PUBLIC CHEERS

"All legally married same-sex upl will be regnized for feral tax purpos no matter what state they live , the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department announced Thursday a change that will affect numero upl stat that have not permted gay change policy follows the Supreme Court's cisn June overturng a key provisn of the Defense of Marriage Act that barred the feral ernment om regnizg same-sex marriag for purpos such as surance benefs, immigratn and tax new approach 'provis accs to benefs, rponsibili and protectns unr feral tax law that all Amerins serve, ' Treasury Secretary Jab J. "A tough ban on same-sex relatnships that threatens vlators wh 14-year prison terms has been quietly signed to law by the print of Nigeria, Ai’s most populo natn, a step that rights advot have long feared not only as a reprsn aimed at gays but as an afont to basic eedoms of speech and ban, known as the Same Sex Marriage Prohibn Act, was passed by Parliament May but was not signed by the print, Goodluck Jonathan, until Jan.

7, Nigerian news agenci reported Monday om Abuja, the the Nigerian law, is illegal not only to engage an timate relatnship wh a member of the same sex, but to attend or anize a meetg of gays, or patronize or operate any type of gay anizatn, cludg private clubs. "The Uned Natns announced Monday [July 7, 2014]  would regnize the gay marriag of all s staffers, a major policy shift that opens the door for the spo of homosexual employe to enjoy the same benefs as the hbands and wiv of their heterosexual lleagu.

12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI

Supreme Court on Monday cled to ci once and for all whether stat n ban gay marriage, a surprise move that will allow gay men and women to marry five stat where same-sex weddgs were prevly rejectg appeals s volvg Virgia, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisns and Indiana, the urt left tact lower-urt lgs that had stck down the bans those stat. But the high urt's actn means there will be no imment natnal lg on the issue, wh ligatn stat where gay marriage is still banned likely to stat unr the jurisdictn of appeals urts that have stck down the bans will also be affected by the Supreme Court's cisn, meang the number of stat wh gay marriage is likely to quickly jump om 19 to 30.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

"A feral appeals urt panel upheld bans on same-sex marriage four stat Thursday, a break wh other feral urts that mak almost certa the Supreme Court mt take up the issue of whether gay upl have a nstutnal right to cisn overturned lower-urt lgs Michigan, Oh, Tennsee and Kentucky and mak the 6th Circu the first appeals urt to uphold state bans sce the Supreme Court stck down part of the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013. Supreme Court cleared Kansas to bee the 33rd state wh same-sex marriage, turng away a bid by state officials who sought to stop the weddgs while a legal fight plays ’s rebuff, which me whout explanatn, tracks siar Supreme Court orrs that let gay marriage start Idaho and Alaska recent weeks. That, upled wh his earlier judicial opns, gave gay rights advot reason for optimism by the end of the arguments, which lasted two and a half jtic appeared to clash over not only what is the right answer the se but also over how to reach .

GAY UPLE JAILED FOR 14 YEARS - WH HARD LABOUR

"In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage…The cisn, which was the culmatn of s of ligatn and activism, set off celebratns across the untry and the first same-sex marriag several stat.

"Epispalians overwhelmgly voted Wednday to allow relig weddgs for same-sex upl, solidifyg the church's embrace of gay rights that began more than a ago wh the electn of the first openly gay vote me Salt Lake Cy at the Epispal General Conventn, days after the U. "The EU's [European Unn's] top urt, a landmark lg for gay rights Europe, said on Tuday [June 5, 2018] that Romania mt grant rince to the Amerin hband of a lol man even though Romania do not self perm same-sex a se which has highlighted social differenc between wtern Europe and a more nservative, ex-munist east, the European Court of Jtice (ECJ) led that Romania mt accept the validy of the mens' 2010 Belgian marriage and treat Amerin Clay Haton as Adrian Coman's spoe unr EU law...