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Homosexuality: The countries where it is illegal to be gay
BBC News
US Vice-President Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three African countries - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn criticism over her support for LGBTQ rights.
In Ghana, in a speech calling for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to criticise a bill before the country's parliament which criminalises advocacy for lgbtq+ rights and proposes jail terms for those that determine as lesbian, male lover, bisexual, or transgender.
The country's Speaker Alban Bagbin later called her remarks "undemocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "intimidated by any person".
In Tanzania, a former minister spoke against US endorse for LGBTQ rights ahead of the visit and in Zambia some contradiction politicians have threatened to hold protests.
Where is homosexuality still outlawed?
There are 64 countries that hold laws that criminalise homosexuality, and nearly half of these are in Africa.
Some countries, including several in Africa, ha
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About
Be Gay Do Crime is a catchphrase and protest slogan used by activists, members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ group, promoting freedom from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or organism non-cisgender.
Origin
While the phrase existed prior to its appearance online, the earliest acknowledged reference was posted by Instagram user @absentobject on September 15th, The publish features the words "Be Gay. Do Crime." spraypainted onto a wall in Marseille, France (shown below).
Spread
Three days later, the Tumblr account queergraffiti featured the photograph, which received more than 58, notes in three years.
On January 13th, , Twitter user @AliceAvizandum tweeted the image along with a piece of stencil graffiti quoting Highlight Fisher. They captioned the image "two kinds of leftists." The tweet received more than 1, likes and retweets in a year and a half (shown below, left).
Several months later, on June 2nd, Twitter user @ioascarium tweeted an adaptation of a Thomas Nast political cartoon, replacing the sign a skeleton is holding with the phrase. Th
For Quincy Brinker, who, by disrupting the talk of yet another washed-up academic trying to note Marsha and Sylvia out of Stonewall, reminded us that not even the dead will be safe if our enemy is victorious.
For Feral Pines, last seen by some of her friends throwing rocks at police, by others in an assembly plotting psychic warfare against the fascists, and by others dancing and then defacing some fascist insignia in the moments before her death.
For Chris Chitty, who would surely use this opportunity to insult the insulters while transmitting some brilliant insight about where we have been and where we are going.
For Ravin Myking, whose beauty caused the pastor of a homophobic megachurch to froth at the mouth and declare the arrival of wolves to hunt his sheep, and caused the sheep to tumble to the ground, speaking in tongues and praying for their absent god.
For Scout and the fires of memory.
For Vlad, ai ferri corti!
For all our friends on the other side, we present these reflections.
Ten years ago, we were seized by a frenzied spirit and, in a trance
The phrase “Be gay, act crime(s)” is a hairpin trigger for the conservative outrage machine, as a non-binary law professor establish out after using it in a TikTok video that unwittingly introduced the words to a disapproving new audience.
But in lgbtq+ communities, the heavilymemed and relentlesslymerchandised slogan is both a rallying cry and a winking inside joke—or an eye-roll-inducing cliché, depending who you ask—with a short but rich history rooted in anarchism and the fight for gay liberation. (Both the unusual “Be gay, do crime,” and plural, “Be homosexual, do crimes,” are used, though the singular is in much more regular use.)
Last fall, criminal commandment professor Florence Ashley made a short TikTok saying, “As a law professor who teaches criminal rule, I felt compelled to inform you to be gay, do crimes.” The video was derisively reposted by rage-farming social media outlet Libs of TikTok and culture warrior psychologist Jordan Peterson, and inspired a column in right-wing media outlet Western Standard titled “Is this any way for a statute professor to talk?” The columnist dug u