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- SOUTHEAST ASIA’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRY STILL HAS NO LAW AGAST LGBT DISCRIMATN
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN IS GAG MOMENTUM
- THE WORLD'S BT GAY TRAVEL GUI
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
SOUTHEAST ASIA’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRY STILL HAS NO LAW AGAST LGBT DISCRIMATN
Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny. * asia gay rights *
And this month, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly. Read more: A Year After Sgapore Decrimalized Gay Sex, Its LGBT Communy Turns Attentn to Fay While many ci across the untry have already stuted lol ordanc to make SOGIESC-based discrimatn illegal, Irish Inoceto, a Filipo LGBT activist and former employee of the Philippe Supreme Court, tells TIME that they have “no teeth at all” and that she has seen firsthand jt how overdue and glargly necsary such a natnwi law is.
Meanwhile, another stunt at the same school who also intifi as a transgenr woman siarly reached out to Inoceto to tell her that the prcipal round up all the stunts her gra and clared that bakla (gay men) wh long hair mt cut or be barred om school. ) Read more: You’ve Probably Heard of the Red Sre, Here’s the History You Didn’t Learn About the Anti-Gay ‘Lavenr Sre’ After the broadst, the untry’s Commissn on Human Rights issued a statement exprsg ncern over the anchors’ remarks, addg that the narrative they ed “only serv to perpetuate the already disadvantageo plight of the LGBT who equently face stigma, discrimatn, and genr-based vlence our society. When Sgapore announced this week would end a lonial-era law that crimalized sex between men, looked like a big victory for gay rights advot the Southeast Asian untry.
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In Southeast Asia’s most gay-iendly untry, an anti-discrimatn law has been blocked for more than two s, thanks part to a dangero disrmatn mpaign wield agast LGBT advot. * asia gay rights *
Soon after announcg that nsensual gay sex would no longer be illegal, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong said his annual Augt rally speech that his ernment would “uphold and safeguard the stutn of marriage” – fed the Constutn as a unn between man and woman. And that disappotment will only have epened wh the suggtn by some of Lee’s misters that not only would the ernment rema opposed to gay marriage – may even create extra hurdl to prevent people om seekg to challenge the marriage laws urt. Law mister K Shanmugam said an terview wh state media that Parliament, rather than the urts, would hold the power to fe marriage – effectively makg harr for people to legally challenge the ernment’s polici as several gay men have attempted recent years.
The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.
SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN IS GAG MOMENTUM
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * asia gay rights *
In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial.
For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).
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Laws erng lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rights are plex Asia, and acceptance of LGBT persons vari wily. Same-sex sexual activy is outlawed at least twenty Asian untri. As of 2023 Historil discrimatn towards homosexualy much of the regn clu the ban on homosexual acts enforced by Genghis Khan banned the Mongol Empire, which ma homosexualy punishable by ath. In 2019, a survey by The Enomist found 45% of rponnts the Asia-Pacific believed that same-sex marriage is evable the regn, while 31% of rponnts disagreed. Furthermore, three-quarters of those surveyed reported a more open climate for LGBT rights pared to three years ago. Of those reportg an improvg climate for LGBT people, 38% ced a change polici or laws. Meanwhile, 36% said verage of LGBT issu mastream media was a major factor. The top reasons ced for dimishg openns was anti-LGBT advocy by relig stutns. * asia gay rights *
For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.
The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view.
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In Asia, the lbian and gay rights movements are clearly domated by activists, who tend to thk terms of a bary opposn (homo- vs hetero-) and clear-cut tegori. Based on "Wtern patterns," the approach is practil, the arguments based on mory rights. "Comg out" is often perce … * asia gay rights *
However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This difference was most pronounced South Korea, where 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh only 23% of those 50 and olr. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.
In a siar number of untri, those who earn more money than the untry’s natnal median e also are more likely to say they accept homosexualy society than those who earn ls.
In many of the untri where there are measurements of iology on a left-right sle, those on the left tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy than those on the iologil right. In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * asia gay rights *
In a siar ve, those who support right-wg populist parti Europe, many of which are seen by LGBT groups as a threat to their rights, are ls supportive of homosexualy society.
In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party.