Kenyan court upholds law making gay sex illegal

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Same-sex relations have been banned since the British colonized Kenya in the late 19th century. Kenya's penal code criminalizes

"carnal knowledge against the order of nature." Anyone found engaging in same-sex relationships could face up to 14 years in prison.

Angola's parliament adopted a new penal code on January 23 for the first time since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975. That paved the way for lawmakers to remove the provision characterizing same-sex relationships as"vices against nature," according to Human Rights Watch. following the arrest and forced anal exams of two men in 2015. The decision reversed a 2016 court ruling.

Phelix Kasanda, or Mama G as he is popularly known, says he lives a life of torment as gay man in Kenya.

 

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