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Kenya - Universal Periodic Review - LGBTIQ+ Rights - October

The criminalization of private consensual gay sexual activity between adults leaves sexual and gender minorities at serious chance of harm and systematic exclusion. Sapphic, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTIQ+) individuals in Kenya report discrimination, force, blackmail and extortion, hate crimes, harassment, arrests, prosecution, lack of protection by law enforcement and government officials, stigma while accessing services, and denial of services altogether.

Kenya lacks laws that consent transgender people to legally change their gender. Transgender individuals who engage in sexual activity with cisgender people of a different gender (e.g., transgender men who have sex with cisgender women and transgender women who have sex with cisgender men) may fall victim to the regulation criminalizing consensual lgbtq+ sexual activity between adults.

In this describe we use the acronym LGBTIQ+ to refer to individuals who self-identify as lesbian, gay, double attraction, transgender

Homosexuals are still discriminated against in Kenya

Not only homosexuals, but all LGBTQ persons feel discriminated against. LGBTQ is an acronym that stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender nonconforming and queer or questioning”. The “Q” leaves room for the other sexual identities and orientations not covered in the acronym.

Kenya’s first laws that outlawed homosexuality were passed in and were premised on English culture. Human-rights lobbying groups particularly oppose sections of the penal code that criminalise sexual activities that are perceived to be “against the command of nature”. For instance, in section , the penal code pronounces a years sentence upon any person convicted of “carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature.”

LGBTQ lobbies and rights groups say that these sections of the statute have exposed queers to unwarranted violence and discrimination while fomenting perceptions that queers are a criminal lot.

Over the years, commandment enforcement, the educational system, religious leadership and cultural influences have been complicit in normalising th

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Why are Kenya and Uganda cracking down on LGBTQ rights?

Kenya and Uganda are moving to further curtail the rights of woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, transgender and gay (LGBTQ) people, whose relationships are already deemed illegal in the conservative East African nations.

After a session lasting nearly seven hours, Ugandan lawmakers approved the Anti-Homosexuality Act on Tuesday, ordering cruel penalties for anyone who engages in same-sex activity.

How an LGBTQ court decision sent Kenya into a moral panic

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Kenyan police fire tear gas, arrest rivalry figures at protest

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Student killed, people arrested in Kenya protests – police

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While more than 30 African countries including Uganda already forbid same-sex relationships, the new commandment passed appears to be the first to outlaw merely recognizing as LGBTQ, Human Rights Observe said.