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KENYA'S GAY MUNY OUT, ONE STORY AT A TIME

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It is the culmatn of a -long legal battle, and a victory for the LGBTQ+ muny.In a majory cisn, the urt led that the non-ernmental ordatn board was discrimatory and ged on the muny’s nstutnal right to associatn by refg to register any of six nam proposed by the muny’s reprentativ, among them the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn and the Gay and Lbian Human Rights Council.The ernment body had said that permtg registratn would ntravene sectns of the untry’s penal that crimalise gay and lbian unns, cludg a Brish lonial law layg down a 14-year sentence for anyone nvicted of homosexual acts.“The urt was of the view that the [ernment’s] cisn was discrimatory and that would be unnstutnal to lim the right to associate, through nial of registratn of an associatn, purely on the basis of the sexual orientatn of the applints,” stat the lg.It add: “Human rights are herent and held simply bee of beg a human.

A media statement by Calisto O, pridg bishop at the Christ is the Answer Mistri, said the lg uld emboln “other illegal practners like paedophil and those volved ct” to also have the right of associatn.“There may be many people who are stgglg wh different kds of sexual sir but they have not gone to urt for the whole natn to regnise them,” stat the church, which has a large followg Kenya’s urban areas.The Kenyan church lked the urt’s lg to the recent cisn by the Church of England to wele same-sex upl “unrervedly and joyfully”.Peter Kaluma, an MP allied to the opposn, vowed to table a bill parliament to prohib homosexualy and impose stiffer penalti, cludg life prison, for those engaged same sex liaisons.The lg will be a btersweet victory for the LGBTQ+ muny Kenya, whose members have been subject to harassment, excln and vlence.

The Kenyan supreme urt recently stck down a ernment cisn to ban the registratn of an LGBTIQ+ muny rights anisatn, sparkg new homophobic rhetoric the untry.

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In many parts of Ai, people don't regnize that gay people exist. Former BBC journalist Kev Mwachiro is tryg to change that wh a new book, "Invisible: Stori om Kenya's Queer Communy." * kenyan gay community *

Kenya is one of 32 Ain untri that crimalis homosexualy. What is the signifince of the recent Kenyan supreme urt lg on a gay rights anisatn? The Kenyan supreme urt led on 24 Febary 2023 that the ernment was wrong to ban the LGBTIQ+ muny om registerg the Natnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn.

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Kenya should crimalise homosexualy: 4 pellg reasons why. The populary of LGBTQ+ among Kenyan teenagers has grown tremendoly, wh some experimentg wh the gay and bisexual is known to import valu, vic, and practic om wtern untri.

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