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- PAKISTAN: SUATN OF HOMOSEXUALS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF LAWS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTNS OF HOMOSEXUALS AND THEIR OUT; WHETHER ANY REGNS HAVE AN OPEN AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
PAKISTAN: SUATN OF HOMOSEXUALS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF LAWS TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTNS OF HOMOSEXUALS AND THEIR OUT; WHETHER ANY REGNS HAVE AN OPEN AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY
LGBT Rights Pakistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * homosexual law pakistan *
Unr Sectn 377 of the untry's penal , homosexualy is not explicly mentned, but "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment for a perd of two years to life (UN 10 May 2005; Pakistan n. Acrdg to a 10 May 2005 article published by the Uned Natns (UN) Integrated Regnal Informatn Networks (IRIN), homosexuals Pakistan "live nstant fear of beg 'outed' [the untry's] stnchly nservative society which is largely ignorant and tolerant of sexual mori.
" Ced the same article, a reprentative of a lol non-ernmental anizatn (NGO) stated that if an dividual openly mpaigned for gay rights the untry, he or she uld end up beg killed by relig followers (UN 10 May 2005). However, a 2006 Guardian article stat that is "rare" for homosexual upl to live together and that many gay men end up marryg women to "avoid sndalisg their fai" (14 Mar. Another article om IRIN not that, while the atmosphere larger ci such as Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore is "dly" more tolerant, ral areas, nservatism is "extreme" and homosexuals rema "closeted" (UN 10 May 2005).
Two sourc dite that cultural practic Pakistan, which perm public displays of affectn between members of the same genr, make possible for gay men to socialize whout attractg attentn (BBC 2 June 2005; The Guardian 14 Mar. Inter s, cludg: Amnty Internatnal (AI), European Country of Orig Informatn Network (),, Gay Tim [London],, Human Rights Commissn of Pakistan (HRCP), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Office of the Uned Natns High Commissner for Refuge (UNHCR), Uned Kgdom Home Office, Uned Stat Department of State. Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment DiscrimatnVari by RegnHog DiscrimatnVari by RegnDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Pakistan are nsired taboo. Even large ci, gays and lbians have to be highly discreet about their sexual orientatn. Pakistani law prcrib crimal penalti for same-sex sexual acts. The Pakistan Penal Co of 1860, origally veloped unr lonialism, punish sodomy wh a possible prison sentence and has other provis * homosexual law pakistan *
Nowadays, the availabily of smartphon and certa applitns have ma possible to fd members of the same muny om distanc and plac not possible [*], a 33-year-old man, intifi as gay but is married to a woman. No matter our past divi, jt felt so good talkg to someone who got to experience life there after 2018, ” said Farooq, referrg to the date when India’s Supreme Court stck down a ban on gay sex.
Sce Pakistan’s nceptn, regardls of new rearch or unrstandg, every hoehold and stutn has accepted a dichotomo terpretatn of both sexualy and genr and has duced that homosexualy is a s that means natnal and relig exists, however, a world unbeknownst to those who choose not to look, a world that liv only shadows. Many report an unshaken belief that Allah ma LGBTQ+ dividuals viant bee of a past mised, while many believe to be an immoral viancy where they have no optn but to adhere to the norms of the society to get back on the straight (heterosexual) rults many homosexual men gettg married, by choice or force, to heterosexual women early age. “Unr the weight of homophobia, heteronormativy and genrism, they are forced to adopt a liftyle acrdg to society’s assigned genr rol and expectatns, ” wr child psychiatrist Hassan Majeed on how Pakistan fails s LGBTQ+ youth by enforcg straight norms unr the guise of Pakistan, the argument of moraly is extremely skewed, regardls of your genr or sexualy.
This outlook of immoraly, cludg wh the gay muny, leads to a plethora of issu cludg psychologil torment and sexual tratn, that turn lead to more societal problems such as sexual abe and privileged class, however, learns and approach life om a different perspective, one that reflects the liberal-progrsive thought of the Wtern natns and accepts the labels of LGBTQ+ and choos to intify as such.