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PROGRS FOR GAY RIGHTS AI STILL ISN’T EVABLE
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To help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartac has published a new report for lbian, gay, trans, and queer travellers about how gay-iendly a untry is. In the 2021 edn, the rankg pared 202 untri and terrori based on the suatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer people the lotns. LGBTQ+ and gay travellers n e this rmatn as a guile to prepare for their gaytn and take the x rankg as an ditor for choosg the holiday statn regardg the lol LGBTQ+ rights.
The rankg of the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2020/2021 is based on diverse sourc such as Human Rights Watch, the UN mpaign Free & Equal, and llected rmatn about human rights vlatns of members of the LGBTQ+ muny throughout the past year. South Ai famoly enshred gay rights s 1996 nstutn. Nearly 10 years ago, I sat down wh a young newspaper edor lled Gil Muhame, who had jt published a tabloid wh the headle “100 pictur of Uganda’s top homos leak.
” The paper featured a gallery of Ugandans they claimed were gay and lled for them to be hanged. Ugandan tabloid edor fends anti-gay headle (2010). He scribed himself as Uganda’s first openly gay man.
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The circumstanc were murky, but his fay and gay rights activists sist was bee of his advocy. Around the same time, Uganda gaed notoriety ternatnally for the famo “anti-gay” bill. Brought forward by a member of Parliament, ially lled for the ath penalty for certa homosexual acts and perpetuated the myth that the LGBTQ muny was recg young people to bee gay.
Then, what was seen as a huge victory for gay Ugandans, was stck down by the urts on a technily.
“It is rampant, the gays are g a lot of damage my untry, ” Rev. If they do succsfully brg the anti-gay bill back to Parliament, will e the same ternatnal backlash as 2019? “They feel is a good time to brg up anti-gay legislatn Uganda now, bee they feel they have got more support om global nservativ than they had a few years ago, ” he said.