Iran, Yemen among untri where beg gay is punishable by ath

Contents:

• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’
• GOP CANDIDATE SAYG 'S 'TOTALLY JT' TO KILL GAY PEOPLE RURFAC
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• MAN THREATENS TO 'KILL EVERY GAY PERSON' HE N AT ST. LOUIS PRI, OFFICIALS SAID
• PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
• KILL GAYS MSAGE OMHATE-FILLED BAPTIST KOOKS!
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
• AMID 'KILL THE GAYS' BILL UPROAR, UGANDAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST IS KILLED
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad. An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world. In 2012, a newly adopted provisnal nstutn ma Somalia's terpretatn of Sharia law "the supreme law of the untry, " makg homosexualy a crime that n be punished by floggg or the ath penalty.

The untry's Penal Co stat that "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" — which n mean homosexualy, even though 's not explicly mentned — is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment om two years to life. They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are. Half of the untri never follow through on this absolute threat, but e other methods to strip a person of are the six untri that actually kill people for engagg homosexual acts.

Stong to ath is another form of public executn  a untry that kills hundreds of people each More: Taiwan Be First Place Asia to Legalize Same-Sex MarriageNigeriaRunng unter to much of the rt of the world, Nigeria’s print cid to strengthen anti-homosexual laws 2014. Earlier this year, two men were shot public by the terrorist group after beg found havg More: Lebanon Jt Celebrated Its Very First Gay Pri ParaSudanThe first two tim a person gets ught havg gay sex Sudan n lead to 100 lash and imprisonment up to five years.

OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’

A GOP ndidate for the Oklahoma state hoe is unr fire over his rurfaced remarks jtifyg the murr of gay Esk was mpaigng for a different seat 2013 when he said that acrdg to the Bible, Christians would be “totally the right” to kill gay people a Facebook ment ments gaed renewed attentn as Mr Esk’s prepar to take on fellow Republin Gloria Banister a n-off primary electn for Oklahoma’s 87th Hoe District on Tuday. Prsed about the remarks ahead of this week’s electn, Mr Esk appeared to double down by llg “totally jt” to kill gay people bee “ me directly om God” 2013, on an article about the Pope askg “who am I to judge? ”He posted a 19-mute YouTube vio on 15 July of this year to “set the rerd straight” rponse to a lol news report on his prev asked the vio if havg “an opn agast homosexualy” means that he’s “a homophobe, ” addg that he thks that “simply mak me a Christian” add that he’s “not for expandg the ath penalty for homosexualy” but he still cricised what he said he believ are the “obscene thgs homosexuals do”.

GOP CANDIDATE SAYG 'S 'TOTALLY JT' TO KILL GAY PEOPLE RURFAC

A Republin ndidate nng for a seat Oklahoma's state Hoe once said is "totally jt" to kill gay people ments that have rurfaced amid his Esk is nng to reprent Oklahoma's 87th Hoe District, which clus parts of Oklahoma Cy.

The ments rurfaced last year a Facebook ment thread as many the LGBTQ muny have warned about a rise homophobic rhetoric 2013, when Esk was nng a different race, the ndidate mented on an article about the Pope askg "who I am to judge? "Renewed Anti-Gay RhetoricEsk is not the only proment nservative figure the Uned Stat to ph anti-gay, and at tim vlent, rhetoric recent Mark Burns, who ran and lost a primary challenge for a South Carola Hoe seat, also lled for the executn of gay people.

Extremist religsy of primarily the fundamentialist varieti of both Islam and Christiany drive enough legislators, relig lears, and laypeople the societi to keep their "kill the gays" laws and cultural practic alive. Executn methods and motivatns the 12 untri clu beheadgs and so-lled honor killgs, the latter mted agast LGBT people by none other than their own fay data llectn is difficult bee of the opaquens of prosecutns the untri, 's clear that Iran and Sdi Arabia are the two ernments most guilty of killg people for beg gay.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

However, the self-proclaimed Islamic State Iraq and Syria has likely executed more people for beg gay or for beg acced of beg gay than any regnized state has done recent years. Internatnal LGBT rights advote and blogger Col Stewart has been monorg the plight of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people around the world for several years.

"As he further not, Uganda's 2014 "jail the gays" law, once billed as a promise away om an earlier-proposed "kill the gays" law, lasted only a few months before was followg list of untri around the world where you n be sentenced to ath jt for beg LGBT was piled wh rmatn om the U. Department of State, Erasg 76 Crim, and the jt-released 2016 edn of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual survey, tled State Sponsored Homophobia 2016: A Wrld Survey of Sexual Orientatn Laws: Crimalizatn, Protectn and 's beg wh the most egreg.

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

The LGBTQ+ panic fense (earlier known as the gay panic fense) is a legal argument that stat that the victims' sexualy or genr inty ed the fendant to lash out and harm or kill them. A fundamentalist pastor gave a sermon which he prayed for “every homo that exists” to suffer “a slow, paful ath” — ntug a trend which he and other right-wg pastors fixate on gay people when rantg about s and remptn.

He has flouted the e of anti-gay slurs his sermons, lks the LGBTQ Pri movement wh pedophilia, and equently lls for gay people to be executed by the state (wh the Uned Stat beg a theocracy dited to rryg out those executns).

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

READ NEXTJapane Pop Star Com Out as GayKylie Mogue Announc Las Vegas RincyWhoopi Goldberg Slams Conservativ over “Barbie” Meltdowns‘The Cottage’ Review: Failed Farce (Broadway). Over the urse of lbian, gay, or bisexual people's lifetim, one five will experience hate crim, and one four transgenr people will as dividuals at the tersectn of homophobia, transphobia, and racism, face worse statistics. As of July 1, 2019, eight stat have passed legislative bans on the e of gay/trans panic as a legal fense: California, Illois, Rho Island, Nevada, Connecticut, Mae, Hawaii, and New York.

Even though the fendants were crimals who equented that area of highway to rob drivers, and tentnally targeted homosexual victims, the fendants were nvicted of manslghter rather than first-gree murr. The gay/trans panic fense was emed admissible, not due to the illegimacy of the gay/trans panic fense, but stead due to Wyomg's statutory sany fense nstct. Help to end this discrimatn by supportg legislative bans on the gay/trans panic steps you n, and should, take are as follows:Contact legislators and ernors stat currently tryg to ban the gay/trans panic fense.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Be sure to reach out to feral legislators as an advote stat where there is currently no proposed gay/trans panic ban your own policians know that equaly unr the law should apply to the victims of hate crim as well. Ali Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was allegedly killed an “honor killg” by some of his male fay members after they found out he was gay, acrdg to an LGBTQ rights group Iran and Monfared, who was known as Alireza by iends and fay, lived a cy southwt Iran. He had applied for an exemptn om pulsory ary service so he uld leave the untry and move to Turkey to live wh his close iend, Aghil Bayat, acrdg to 6Rang, the Iranian Lbian and Transgenr homosexual nduct is crimalized Iran, part of the ary exemptn law allows gay and transgenr people to receive a medil exemptn om service for their inty.

MAN THREATENS TO 'KILL EVERY GAY PERSON' HE N AT ST. LOUIS PRI, OFFICIALS SAID

”Fazeli Monfared received an exemptn rd the mail om the Islamic Revolutnary Guard Corps after disclosg his homosexualy, but one of his male relativ found and disvered he was gay, acrdg to 6Rang. “We thk that bee of his genr exprsn and his behavrs, they knew that he is homosexual, but was proof that shows he wants to leave the untry, and he is a gay man, ” Am said.

PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE

If Fazeli Monfared’s alleged killers had ught him havg sex wh a man, then they might receive lser punishments for his is one of an timated 11 untri where same-sex sexual acts are punishable by ath, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, and one of almost 70 untri where is crimalized, acrdg to Human Rights Watch, an ternatnal human rights group based New York. "The are moral prcipl regardg the behavr of people general, ” he said at the time, acrdg to German broadster Dtsche are no statistics or rerds of the number of anti-LGBTQ “honor killgs” — which are perpetrated by relativ who feel the LGBTQ person has brought “dishonor” to the fay — that happen Iran or other untri that crimalize homosexualy, Tara Sepehri Far, who vtigat human rights ab Iran and Kuwa for Human Rights Watch, told NBC said Fazeli Monfared’s se highlights the importance of the role of the fay LGBTQ people’s liv when the state crimaliz who they are. “Exposg that to the very same thori who, theory, have the thory to arrt and prosecute you is very risky, ” she said other untri should prsure Iran to remove the law crimalizg homosexualy and the ath penalty “bee this is the reason why the fai, they allow themselv to have the right to vlate their children.

What's TeA Ugandan ernment mister announced an tentn to make homosexualy punishable by ath October 2019; the Natnal Christian Foundatn has fund projects that opposed LGBT rights Uganda; and the WShape Foundatn, closely lked to Chick-fil-A, has fund the Natnal Christian Foundatn. What's FalseHowever, the Ugandan mister did not signal an tent to legalize the murr of LGBT people, and his remarks were quickly ntradicted by the ernment; also, 's not clear to what extent Natnal Christian Foundatn-fund enti were volved the creatn or promotn of a bill to make homosexualy punishable by ath.

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10, Uganda's Mister for Ethics and Integry, Simon Lokodo, told the Rters news agency that the untry's ernment tend to revive a failed 2014 bill, known at the time as the "Kill the Gays" bill, that would make "grave acts" of homosexualy punishable by ath.

Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the ath penalty on homosexuals, sayg the legislatn would curb a rise unnatural sex the east Ain natn. “Homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recment by gay people schools, and pecially among the youth, where they are promotg the falsehood that people are born like that, ” Ethics and Integry Mister Simon Lokodo told the Thomson Rters Foundatn. By 2014, however, a bill signed to law would have troduced life imprisonment for homosexualy, but the ath penalty punishment had been removed om s text, part as a rult of ternatnal prsure.

Two days after Lokodo signaled the ernment's tentn to revive the troductn of the ath penalty for homosexualy October 2019, the ernment prs office self tervened, directly ntradictg the mister's assertns, and wrg a statement:. Until or unls Lokodo issu a retractn of his remarks, or further clarifitn is forthg, is simply not clear what the Ugandan ernment's rolved tentns are, as of October 2019, regardg the possible troductn of the ath penalty as a punishment for homosexual acts. Some observers might see an ethil equivalence between imposg state executn as a punishment for homosexualy, on the one hand, and legally permtg any and every civilian to murr another civilian, on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty.

NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

David Behati — who first troduced the Anti-Homosexualy Bill 2009 and was a key player the ensug mpaign — scribed to Sharlet the fluence of a ntroversial Amerin Christian nservative movement known lloquially as "The Fellowship" and "The Fay" visg and enuragg the legislatn, cludg at the early stag when still clud a ath penalty provisn.

AMID 'KILL THE GAYS' BILL UPROAR, UGANDAN LGBTQ ACTIVIST IS KILLED

Bob Hunter, signated by the Fay as a spokman to rpond to the Uganda fias, has referred to David Bahati, the thor of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill, as a member of the Fay. For rears not faiar wh , by the way, “harsh” is an unrstatement: life imprisonment for gay sex, ath for “serial offenrs, ” seven years for “promotn, ” and three years for failg to turn a known homosexual. However, spe plsible reports, is not clear to what extent NCF-fund enti or dividuals were volved the nty grty of draftg and promotg legislatn, begng 2009, which would have imposed the ath penalty for homosexualy.

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.

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Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.