Court quash Home Mistry’s ban on ‘Gay Is OK!’ book | Malay Mail

Contents:

• MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK CHALLENGE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN
• 'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE
• COURT QUASH HOME MISTRY’S BAN ON ‘GAY IS OK!’ BOOK

MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK CHALLENGE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN

A Malaysian man on Thursday 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. The Mlim man his 30s – whose name has been whheld by his lawyer to protect his privacy – filed the lawsu after he was arrted the central Selangor state 2018 for attemptg gay sex, which he ni.

LGBT+ advot say Islamic laws have been creasgly ed to target the Southeast Asian untry’s gay muny, wh a rise arrts and punishments rangg om ng to jailg. Dpe the lg, gay Malaysian men still face up to 20 years jail unr a Brish lonial-era law that bans gay sex, known as Sectn 377. 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 that 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 man volved the legal challenge was among 11 men arrted on spicn of attemptg gay sex durg a raid at a private rince. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP.

'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE

Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.

Wednday, 19 Jul 2023 7:46 PM MYT LONDON, July 19 — Brish Prime Mister Rishi Sunak today apologised to LBGT veterans who served the untry’s armed forc and were affected by a pre-2000 ban on homosexualy.

COURT QUASH HOME MISTRY’S BAN ON ‘GAY IS OK!’ BOOK

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment while bravely servg this untry... Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.

”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament. It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.

Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.