Activists nmn vlence agast LGBTQ muny St. Vcent, where gay sex is illegal - The Washgton Post

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• MALAYSIA’S HIGHT COURT STRIK DOWN STATE GAY SEX BAN
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• MALAYSIAN UNIVERSY HOLDS NTT TO NVERT GAY STUNTS
• MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK CHALLENGE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN
• MALAYSIAN WS LANDMARK RIGHT TO CHALLENGE MLIM GAY SEX BAN

MALAYSIA’S HIGHT COURT STRIK DOWN STATE GAY SEX BAN

The se aris om a 2018 raid on a private rince Selangor, which state relig enforcement officials arrted 11 men on charg of “attemptg” gay sex, unr sectn 28 of Selangor’s Syariah (Sharia, or Islamic law) crimal enactment.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

(Bangkok) – The Malaysian ernment should renounce a bet mister’s proposal to crease crimal penalti agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today. (Kuala Lumpur) – Persistent Malaysian ernment-sponsored discrimatn threatens the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Malaysia, Human Rights Watch and Jtice for Sisters said a report released today. ” He said, “Spegoatg transgenr persons has bee a tactic applied by ultra nservative and natnalist policians, ” and that “The exploatn of societal homo/transphobia has proven a nvenient way to divert public attentn away om ernment failure to addrs prsg social issu and risg equali.

June was chosen to be LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr) Pri Month to memorate the Stonewall rts New York Cy, 1969. The Stonewall rts were a ccial event the fight for LGBT regnn the Uned Stat and largely nsired to have led to gay liberatn movement and morn fight for LGBT rights.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

Globally, laws on LGBT rights and homosexualy have bee more liberal after 28 untri regnized same-sex marriage 2019 alone.

They ntue to state that any laws crimalizg homosexualy pos a ser threat to the fundamental human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals. Every Pri, or whenever public nversatn turns to the subject of homosexualy, Malaysians who are LGBT fear for their liv.

A Malaysian man has won a landmark urt challenge agast an Islamic ban on sex “agast the orr of nature”, raisg hop for greater acceptance of gay rights the mostly Mlim untry.In a unanimo cisn, Malaysia’s top urt led on Thursday that the Islamic provisn ed agast the man was unnstutnal and thori had no power to enact the law.“This is historic. This is monumental for LGBT+ rights Malaysia,” said Numan Afifi, the founr of LGBT+ rights group Pelangi Campaign, which was not volved the lawsu.The Mlim man his 30s – whose name has been whheld by his lawyer to protect him – filed the lawsu after he was arrted the central Selangor state 2018 for attemptg gay sex, an allegatn he ni.Same-sex acts are illegal Malaysia, although nvictns are rare. The untry, which has 13 stat, has a dual-track legal system, wh Islamic crimal and fay laws applible to Mlims nng alongsi civil laws.LGBT+ advot say Islamic laws have been creasgly ed to target the south-east Asian untry’s gay muny, wh a rise arrts and punishments rangg om ng to jailg.Numan hoped Selangor would immediately repeal the Islamic ban, wh other stat followg su.Dpe the lg, gay Malaysian men still face up to 20 years jail unr a Brish lonial-era law banng gay sex, known as Sectn 377.“We want to live digny whout fear of prosecutn.

NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG

Of urse Sectn 377 is still there – ’s not the end but this is a begng,” Numan said.In Malaysia, a untry of 32 ln where 60% of the populatn is Mlim, many gay people are not open about their sexualy.The man who lnched the legal challenge argued Selangor had no power to enforce an Islamic ban on “terurse agast the orr of nature” when gay sex was already a crime unr civil laws.The urt agreed, clarg that the state’s power to enact such offenc “is subject to a nstutnal lim”, the chief jtice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat wrote the lg.The Selangor Islamic Relig Council, a rponnt the su, did not immediately rpond to a requt for ment.The man volved the legal challenge was among 11 men arrted on spicn of attemptg gay sex durg a raid at a private rince.Five of the group plead guilty, and were sentenced 2019 to jail, ng and f, sparkg outrage among human rights activists who said created an environment of fear for LGBT+ people.Two women were ned for “attemptg lbian sex” unr Islamic laws the east ast state of Terengganu 2018, the same year that saw a transgenr woman attacked. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

MALAYSIAN UNIVERSY HOLDS NTT TO NVERT GAY STUNTS

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn.

MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK CHALLENGE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN

Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison.

MALAYSIAN WS LANDMARK RIGHT TO CHALLENGE MLIM GAY SEX BAN

Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison. "Gay sex is banned Namibia unr a rarely-enforced 1927 sodomy the southern Ain untry has seen a flurry of urt s on the rights of same-sex upl to marry, bee parents and immigrate recent May, the Supreme Court said that same-sex marriag ntracted abroad between Namibian cizens and foreign spo should be lg enraged social nservativ the sparsely populated, largely Christian untry, a popular tourist statn rich wildlife and natural legal experts and opposn policians have utned that by directly ntradictg a Supreme Court lg the new law might be unnstutnal -- and challenge the mocratic foundatns of the untry.