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Anti-Gay Bill Doesn't Make Sense, Mbeki Says Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has hit out at Ndorwa West MP David Bahati's anti-gay Bill, telling a public audience in Kampala that what two consenting adults do in private "is really not the matter of law." 
Ugandan gays brave stigma to honour murdered rights leader Ugandan gay rights activists braved hostility and stigma Thursday as they gathered to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of their fellow campaigner David Kato.
They Will Say We Are Not Here These are fragments of David Kato, glimpses of a Ugandan activist and friend who – one year ago today – was brutally murdered. 
Gay Not Disorder The Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists has become the first mental health authority in Asia to declare that homosexuality is not a psychiatric disorder and that attempts to treat it as such are not beneficial.

HIV Testing: Gay Couples Encouraged To Get Tested, Hear Results Together Under New Program

gay safe houseHomophobia is kindled through media and public display of same sex relation in Uganda. Homophobia destroys: assured livelihood, security and enjoyment of sexuality. These at individual level translate as enjoyment of basics of life, safe passage in all situations and enjoyment of relations.

Read more: HIV Testing: Gay Couples Encouraged To Get Tested, Hear Results Together Under New Program

 
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Family values don’t supersede rights of Kenyan gays

BY WOTHAYA JANE  Eldoret North Member of Parliament, William Ruto recently announced his intentions to campaign for the presidency on the platform of upholding family values.

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Gay presidential candidate through first-round Finnish vote

Pekka Haavisto, the openly gay candidate in Finland’s presidential race, has come second in the first round of voting. Haavisto, 53, is standing for the Green League. Receiving 18.8% of the vote, he finished behind Sauli Niinistö of the National Coalition Party,...

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KENYAN TEEN DRAMA SHUGA: GAY RIGHTS FROM THE GROUND UP

Over the past few years, the issue of gay rights in Africa has become particularly heated with presidents, preachers and global petitioners all wading in. Kenya has been no exception to this trend. Incidents of sexual abuse and ‘corrective rape’ in Nairobi...

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Human Rights Law and the LGBTI Community in Kenya

Human Rights Law and the LGBTI Community in Kenya

This book, attempts to explain in very simple and clear terms, what the LGBTI rights are. That these Rights are neither Special Rights, nor are they New Rights. Indeed when in 1996, some 20 leading Human Rights lawyers sat in the city of Yogyakarta – Indonesia,...

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  Gay Kenya Newsletter; To receive our Monthly newsletter:  email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   Gay Kenya Newsletter January 2012 Issue

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Membership & Inquiries       Benefits of Membership While GKT remains primarily a Human Rights Advocacy group, it is also a membership group and offers services only for its membership. These include: Participating in our Advocacy activities While frontline...

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