Ma ke kaona kahakai ʻo Mtwapa ma ka moku ʻo Kilifi o Kenya, ʻo ka hoʻopaʻapaʻa a me ka huhū o nā kākāʻōlelo no ka male male kāne ʻole i hoʻomaka i ka hana ʻino i hoʻomaka i ka lā 12 Pepeluali, me ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana i kahi ʻimi kilokilo mai kēlā me kēia hale e nā anti-gay vigilantes, alanui. ʻO ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana i nā kāne male kāne, ka hoʻokuʻu ʻia ʻana o kahi keʻena lapaʻau hakakā ʻana i ka AIDS, a me ka nalu ākea o ka hoʻolaha ʻana o ka lehulehu ultra-homophobic.
Nui nā kāne kāne i hele i ka peʻe a i ʻole i holo i kēlā wahi.
Mai Nairobi, ke kapikala o ka lāhui, ʻo Denis Nzioka, he kanaka hoʻohiwahiwa koʻikoʻi he 24 makahiki, i haʻi aku iā Gay City News, "Mai ka wā i hoʻomaka ai ka hana ʻino ma Mtwapa, ua makaʻu ka poʻe gay no ko lākou ola. Ke ʻimi nei nā hui vigilante i lalo. ʻO nā kāne male kāne, hele i kēlā me kēia puka, a ʻo ka mea hoʻokalakupua nui loa e hoʻouka ʻia ma ke alanui."
Wahi a kahi hōʻike kūloko i hoʻomākaukau pū ʻia e nā ʻelele ma ka ʻaoʻao o ke alakaʻi nui o ka hui queer Kenyan, ʻo ka Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) makahiki ʻelua, a me ka Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), kahi non-government. ʻO ka hui i hoʻokumu ʻia i ʻelua mau makahiki i hala aku nei, ʻo ka nalu o ka hana hoʻomāinoino anti-gay i hoʻokumu ʻia ʻo Kafkaesque ma kahi lono hoʻopunipuni e pili ana i kahi male male kāne i manaʻo ʻia no Pepeluali 12.
"Aia kekahi manaʻo he moʻolelo kanu ia," i ʻōlelo ʻia e ka GALCK-KHRC hōʻike, me ka hoʻohui ʻana, "Ma kekahi hihia, ʻo ka manaʻo hou ʻia ʻo ia ma kahi o ʻelua pule i hala aku nei he kāne kāne kaulana kaulana a kaulana i ka wahi o Mtwapa. Ua hele ʻo ia i kahi hale ʻuʻuku no ka ʻoki lauoho. I ka ʻōlelo ʻana a kekahi o nā mea ʻuʻuku he nani maoli kona lauoho a nīnau iā ia i kahi e hele ai, ua pane hoʻohenehene ʻo ia e mare ana ʻo ia. mosque a ua hōʻike ʻia aia kahi male male kāne i hoʻolālā ʻia no ka Pōʻalima, Pepeluali 12 ma Mtwapa."
A laila hoʻolaha ka imam o ka hale pule i ka mea i kapa ʻia ʻo "male" i kāna ʻaha kanaka a kauoha i kāna ʻohana e hoʻomaka i ka nānā ʻana i nā hui kaiaulu e hōʻoia ʻaʻole hiki ke hana ʻia nā male male.
Ma hope o kēia, "ʻo kahi lekiō kūloko, ʻo Kaya FM, ua ʻohi i ka moʻolelo a hoʻomaka i kahi papahana o nā papahana e pili ana i nā kāne kāne," e like me ka hōʻike GALCK-KHRC, a Nzioka i haʻi aku i kēia mea hoʻopuka me nā hōʻike kamaʻilio kelepona i hoʻopiha ʻia me nā haʻiʻōlelo homophobic a nā mea hoʻonāukiuki.
"Ke hōʻike nei ʻo Kaya FM ma Swahili a me ka nui o nā ʻōlelo Minikenda, a no laila ua loaʻa i ke kumu maoli," wahi a ka hōʻike, me ka hoʻohui ʻana, "ʻO ka manaʻo nui o nā kūkākūkā ʻana ʻo ia ka 'male' o nā kāne ʻelua ma Mtwapa. Ua ʻohi pū nā keena i ka moʻolelo, me Baraka FM, Rahma FM, a ma hope o nā lekiō aupuni me Kiss a me Classic FM."
ʻElima mau lā ma mua o ka lā o ka male i ʻōlelo ʻia, "ua kūkākūkā ka nui o nā mufti a me nā imams i ka male e hiki mai ana i ka pule Pōʻalima a noi i ke kaiāulu e makaʻala i nā kāne kāne. a no ka hōʻoia ʻana ʻaʻole i hana ʻia kahi male male kāne," i ʻōlelo ʻia e ka GALCK-KHRC hōʻike.
Ua haʻi ʻo Nzioka i kēia mea kākau moʻolelo, "He Muslim ka nui o Mtwapa, a he nui ka mana a me ka mana o nā imam ma laila."
Ma kahi o 60 pakeneka o ka heluna kanaka Muslim o Kenya e noho ana ma ke kahakai kahi e kū ai ʻo Mtwapa. ʻO Kenya ma kahi o 10 pakeneka Muslim, 33 pakeneka Roma Katolika, a he 45 pakeneka Protestant, e like me ke komo ʻana o ka ʻāina i ka CIA World Factbook.
Ma ke ʻano he hōʻailona o nā mea e hiki mai ana, ma ke ahiahi o ka lā 7 o Pepeluali, ma hope o nā haʻi ʻōlelo kūʻē i nā kāne male ma nā hale pule Muslim, ua hoʻouka ʻia kekahi pūʻulu o nā kāne ʻōpio iā Kalifornia, ka hui nui o nā kāne male ma Mtwapa, a ʻoiai ʻo ka hula i ʻōlelo ʻia ma ke ʻano he mele. , "ʻAʻohe hauʻoli o nā kāne kāne a ʻaʻohe hauʻoli a hauʻoli i kēia manawa." I nā lā ma hope mai, ua lohe ʻia nā leo leo mai ka poʻe hoʻohaunaele e puhi iā Kalifornia.
Ma ka lā 11 o Pepeluali, ua mālama ʻia kahi ʻaha kūkā homophobic e hoʻāhewa ana i ka male ʻana o ka lā aʻe e Sheikh Ali Hussein, ka mea hoʻoponopono kūloko o ka ʻaha kūkā o nā Imams a me nā haʻi'ōlelo o Kenya (CIPK), me Bishop Lawrence Chai, ka ʻelele kūloko o ka National Council of Churches. o Kenya (NCCK).
Wahi a kekahi moʻolelo i loko o ka Daily Nation e pili ana i ka ʻaha kūkā, "Ua ʻōlelo ka poʻe kākā'ōlelo he nui ka poʻe ʻōpio i hoʻopaʻa ʻia i loko o nā hui gay a ʻōlelo aʻe ʻo ke Akua e hoʻopaʻi i ke kūlanakauhale ulu wikiwiki loa ma ka ʻāina ʻo Coast. e hiki mai ana, aole makou e ae ia mare ma keia kulanakauhale i ka la apopo. E kupaa no makou e hoopau aku i na kane e paapu ana i keia kulanakauhale i na hopena pule a pau mai na kihi a pau o keia aina," wahi a na alakai haipule."
Ua ʻōlelo nā kākāʻōlelo ʻelua "ua hāʻawi lākou i ke aupuni i ʻehiku mau lā e pani i nā hui pō a lākou i hoʻopiʻi ai no ka hoʻoulu ʻana i ka male kāne ma ke kaona," i hōʻike ʻia e ka Daily Nation, me ka ʻōlelo ʻana ua noi lāua ʻelua i ke aupuni e 'hoʻopakele i ka ʻāina mai ka hilahila o ka noho ʻana. hoʻohana i ka male ma waena o nā kāne like.' Ua aʻo pū aku lākou i ka mea nona ka hale ma ke kūlanakauhale, ka mea i ʻōlelo ʻia e hoʻolimalima ana i nā lumi no nā kāne kāne wale nō, e kipaku iā lākou a i ʻole e kū i ko lākou huhū.
Ua hoʻohewa pū nā kākāʻōlelo ʻelua i ke keʻena ʻo Mtwapa i mālama ʻia e ka Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), he hui aupuni nui me 750 mau limahana limahana ma ka ʻāina holoʻokoʻa e holo ana i kahi papahana noiʻi i kākoʻo pū ʻia e ke Kulanui o Oxford ʻo Britain. He polokalamu ko ke keʻena maʻi AIDS no ke aʻo ʻana a me ka mālama ʻana i nā kāne moe kāne.
Ua koi ʻo Sheikh Hussein lāua ʻo Bishop Chai i ke aupuni e noiʻi i ke keʻena KEMRI no ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā lawelawe i nā kāne kāne.
"Pehea e hiki ai i kahi keʻena moku'āina ke komo i ke kumu o ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka ʻōlelo aʻo i kēia mau lawehala?," i ʻōlelo ai nā kākāʻōlelo ʻelua, e like me ka Daily Nation, a ua hoʻohui lākou, "Noi mākou e pani ke aupuni me ka hopena koke a i ʻole mākou e hana. iho i luna o kona mau luna."
I ka lā ma hope o kēia ʻaha kūkā nūhou, ua hoʻopuni ʻia ka hale keʻena KEMRI i alakaʻi ʻia e kekahi alakaʻi makaʻala i kapa ʻia ʻo Faridi ma kahi o 200 a 300 mau kānaka me nā lāʻau, nā pōhaku, a me nā mea kaua ʻē aʻe. ka mare ʻole, a koi aku i nā "shogas"E hele mai i waho o ka hale."Shoga" he huaʻōlelo Swahili i hoʻohana ʻia ma ke ʻano he hoʻopaʻapaʻa kūʻē i nā kāne kāne - ka like me "faggot" - akā na nā wahine hoʻi i ka wā e pili ana i kā lākou mau hoaaloha pili wahine.
Ua komo ʻo Faridi, ke alakaʻi vigilante, i ke keʻena hauʻoli i hele pū ʻia e nā mākaʻi a kūʻē i kahi limahana limahana e ʻaʻahu ana i ka T-shirt World AIDS Day me kahi triangle ʻulaʻula e heluhelu ana "Condoms prevent AIDS" ma Swahili. Ua ʻōlelo ʻia ka poʻe kiaʻi, "ʻO kēia kanaka a shoga," a ma kona koi, ua hopuia oia e na makai. Ua hopuia kekahi limahana KEMRI mahope mai, mamuli no hoi o ke koi a Faridi.
Ua haʻi ʻo Nzioka iā Gay City News ua hoʻopau ʻia ke keʻena KEMRI, me nā mea me nā kamepiula i luku ʻia, a ua koi ʻia e pani. ʻO kēia hoʻohaunaele i ka hana o ke keʻena keʻena, ʻo ia ka nui o nā poʻe maʻi HIV i komo i ka mālama a me ka mālama ʻana ma laila ʻaʻole hiki ke loaʻa i kā lākou lāʻau lapaʻau no nā lā, he hopena koʻikoʻi ko ke olakino iā lākou.
Ma hope o kēlā lā hoʻokahi, "ma hope o ka pule Pōʻalima" i loko o nā hale pule o Mtwapa, "hele nā poʻe lehulehu i nā hale o ka poʻe i manaʻo ʻia he mau kāne kāne e ʻimi ana iā lākou," wahi a ka hōʻike GALCK-KHRC, nāna i haʻi i nā haʻiʻōlelo i kahi lehulehu nui i ʻākoakoa ma waho o ka hale makai kūloko. Ua haʻi aku ʻo Sheikh Hussein i ka lehulehu ma ke ʻano "e hoʻonāukiuki, a hoʻomau ʻo ia e kamaʻilio e pili ana iā Sodoma a me Gomora a me ka pono e huki i nā kāne kāne a pau mai ka ʻāina ʻo Mtwapa," wahi a ka hōʻike.
ʻO Omar Masumbuko kekahi o nā poʻe kālai'āina i kamaʻilio pū i ka lehulehu. "Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia e hoʻopau ʻia ka male kāne a hoʻohana ʻia nā ala āpau e hana ai," e like me ka hōʻike GALCK-KHRC. "Ua haʻi ʻo ia i ka lehulehu ʻaʻole pono lākou e hopohopo e lawe i nā kāne kāne a lākou i ʻike ai i ka hale mākaʻi akā pono lākou e mālama i ka hihia,"
ʻO ka Sodomy a me ka wahine "e kū'ē i ke kauoha o ke ʻano" he mau hewa ia ma Kenya, e hoʻopaʻi ʻia e nā makahiki he ʻumi i loko o ka hale paʻahao, ma lalo o ke kānāwai i hoʻoili ʻia mai ka wā o ka noho aliʻi colonial Pelekane, i pau i ka makahiki 1963.
Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo Pepeluali 12 e nā hoʻouka kaua he nui i ka poʻe gay. Ma ka hola 8 o ia kakahiaka, ma mua o ka alakaʻi ʻana i ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana i ke keʻena ʻo KEMRI, ua hui pū ʻia ʻo Faridi me nā mākaʻi i ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana i ka home o kahi kāne male kāne, i hopu ʻia me kahi hoaaloha e kipa mai ana mai nā ʻāina ʻē. I ko lākou ʻimi ʻana i nā ukana a ka malihini, ua loaʻa iā lākou nā mea hoʻonani i komo pū kekahi mau apo. Ua ʻōlelo koke ʻo Faridi ʻo ia nā apo no ka male i manaʻo ʻia.
Ma kahi hanana ʻokoʻa, e iho mai ana kahi kiaʻi kiaʻi 23 makahiki mai kahi kaʻa e hele ana i ke kikowaena o Mtwapa i ka wā i hoʻouka ʻia ai ʻo ia e kekahi poʻe hoʻoweliweli i hoʻoweliweli iā ia me ka make a hahau iā ia me ka noʻonoʻo. Ua hoʻāʻo kekahi wahine hoʻokamakama e hoʻomalu iā ia me kona kino a kāhea aku i ka lehulehu ʻaʻole hiki iā lākou ke pepehi i nā kānaka e like me ia a ʻaʻole i hana ke kanaka i kekahi mea, akā ua hoʻoinu ka lehulehu i ke kanaka me ka ʻaila, e hoʻomākaukau ana e puhi ola iā ia. I kēia manawa ua hōʻea nā mākaʻi, akā ma kahi o ka hopu ʻana i kekahi o ka lehulehu, ua hopu lākou i ke kanaka āna i hoʻouka ai. Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ke kanaka i hoʻokahe ʻia i ke koko, a hōʻole ʻia i ka lāʻau lapaʻau.
I kekahi lā aʻe, ua hoʻouka ʻia kahi mea manawaleʻa ma ke keʻena KEMRI e ka poʻe lehulehu, nāna i oli ʻo ia ʻo kāna male ʻana a lākou i hoʻopilikia ai. Ua hahau nui ʻia ke kanaka a puhi ʻia i ke ahi me nā ʻeke paka. I ka hoʻomākaukau ʻana o ka lehulehu e hoʻoinu i ke kanaka me ka ʻaila, ua hopu ʻia ʻo ia. Ma hope o kona hopu ʻia ʻana, ua hoʻāʻo ka lehulehu e hoʻouka i ke keʻena mākaʻi o Mtwapa akā ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia me ke kinoea waimaka.
ʻO ka huina, ua hopu ʻia nā kāne ʻeono i manaʻo ʻia he kāne kāne kāne, ua koi ʻia kekahi o lākou e hana i nā hoʻokolokolo lāʻau no ka hōʻike ʻana i ka sodomy, a ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia nā mea a pau no ka ʻaha hoʻokolokolo i ka lā 15 o Pepeluali. e KHRC, ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia nā ʻeono mai ka hale paʻahao, a ua holo i kēia manawa.
Ua ʻōlelo pū ʻo Nzioka, ua loaʻa i ka nalu o ka hoʻomāinoino a me nā kūʻē i Mtwapa i ka hoʻolaha ʻana i ka "nui" i ka lehulehu media, ʻo ia hoʻi ka lekiō a me ke kīwī, akā "ʻo ia mau mea a pau, kaumaha, homophobic loa," a ʻo ia hoʻi. ʻaʻole hiki i ka poʻe media ke hele aku i nā ʻelele o ke kaiāulu kāne. Akā, ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia, ua hōʻike ʻia nā ʻōlelo a me nā ʻōlelo a nā imams a me nā alakaʻi hoʻomana a me nā anti-gay.
Nīnau ʻia e Gay City News inā e hoʻouna ana ka International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) i kekahi limahana i Kenya mai kona keʻena lālā ma Johannesburg, South Africa, ua pane aku ka luna hoʻokele o ka hui, ʻo Cary Alan Johnson, ma kahi leka uila, "ʻAʻole mākou e hoʻouna aku i kahi limahana i Kenya i kēia manawa, no ka mea, ua hilinaʻi nui mākou i ka neʻe LGBT kūloko, i hui pū ʻia ma lalo o ka hae o ka Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) e pane i ke kūlana. Eia kekahi , he nui o na hoa pili pono kanaka a me ka aina, oia hoi ka Kenya Human Rights Coalition, ke komo nei me ka ike maopopo o ka hoouka ana i na kuleana o na kanaka e pili ana i ko lakou moe kolohe a i ole ia, he hoouka ia i ke kuokoa o na Kenyan a pau. makaainana."
ʻAʻole ʻo GALCK he hui lālā akā he hui o ʻelima mau pūʻulu ʻē aʻe - ʻo Ishtar, kahi hui olakino no nā kāne i moe me nā kāne; Gaykenya.com, he pūnaewele puni honua; Nā Wahine Minority in Action, he hui moe wahine; ka Gender Education and Advocacy Project (GEAP), he hui no ka poʻe transgendered a me ka poʻe intersex; a ʻO The Other Man in Kenya (TOMIKI), he ʻupena kaiapili o ka poʻe ʻoihana kāne kāne i ka lāʻau lapaʻau, kānāwai, a me nā ʻoihana ʻē aʻe, ʻo ka hapa nui o lākou, ʻōlelo ʻo Nzioka, "he naʻauao loa."
ʻO ka hoʻomaopopo ʻana i ka liʻiliʻi o kekahi o ke alakaʻi ʻana o GALCK ua hāpai i nā hopohopo. Ma kahi ʻōlelo e koi ana i ka pale aupuni no nā kāne kāne i paʻi ʻia ma ka pūnaewele o ka hui, ua kākau kāna luna nui, ʻo David Kuria, "Ke kāhea aku nei mākou i nā alakaʻi hoʻomana ma Kenya e mahalo ʻaʻole ʻo ka heterosexuality koi ke ala e hoʻokō ai i kā lākou hoʻomana. Makemake mākou e kamaʻilio me lākou, a inā he lāʻau maoli kā lākou no ka male kāne, a laila hauʻoli loa mākou i ka lawe ʻana, ʻaʻole naʻe ma lalo o nā kūlana o ka paʻakikī."
ʻOiai ʻo ka American Psychiatric Association a me ka hapa nui o kāna mau hui o ke Komohana ʻaʻole i hōʻole wale i ka manaʻo he hiki ke loaʻa kahi "lāʻau" no ka male kāne, akā ua hōʻoia pū ʻia ʻo ka hoʻāʻo ʻana e hoʻokau i kēlā "lāʻau" i ka poʻe me ka wahine like. hiki ke hōʻeha loa i ka psychologically, he mea hopohopo ke ʻike i ke alakaʻi o kahi hui kāne e like me GALCK e ʻōlelo ana e "hauʻoli kāna mau lālā e lawe" i kahi lāʻau i kapa ʻia inā loaʻa.
ʻAʻole hiki ke loaʻa iā Kuria no ka ʻōlelo ma ka manawa paʻi.
ʻElima mau limahana uku ʻo GALCK a, ʻōlelo ʻo Nzioka i kēia mea hoʻolaha, loaʻa ka nui o kāna kālā mai LLH, ka Hui LGBT Norewai.
ʻAʻohe manaʻo koke e hoʻopau i ke kānāwai anti-gay sodomy ma Kenya. Ua haʻi aku ʻo Nzioka iā Gay City News ua "nui" ke kaiāulu o Kenya i ka poʻe loea e kākau ana i kahi kumukānāwai aupuni hou me nā palapala e kākoʻo ana i ka hoʻopau ʻana i nā kānāwai anti-gay a me ka hoʻonui ʻana i nā pono kanaka i ka poʻe LGBT, akā ua huli ke komite i ka pepeiao kuli. , a "ua komo i loko o ka homophobia ma ka wehe ʻana i kahi ʻāpana i ʻōlelo ʻia 'he kuleana ko kēlā me kēia kanaka e hoʻomaka i kahi ʻohana,' i manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā kāne kāne i ke kuleana e loaʻa a hānai paha i nā keiki."
Eia kekahi, wahi a Nzioka, ʻoiai he mau lima o nā luna aupuni i koho ʻia a me nā poʻe kālai'āina i hui pū ʻia me nā hui queer, "ua hūnā nā mea a pau, noʻonoʻo loa" e pili ana i kā lākou kākoʻo ʻana i nā pono kāne kāne a ʻaʻohe hōʻike hoʻonohonoho o kēlā kākoʻo i ka pāremata aupuni.
I kēia manawa, ʻaʻohe hōʻailona o ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana i ka Mtawapa: i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o kēia pule, ua hoʻolaha ʻo Sheikh Hussein i nā leka uila no kahi hōʻike anti-gay nui ma Mtawapa i ka lā 19 Pepeluali.
ʻO kahi hōʻike wikiō e pili ana i nā hanana Mtwapa mai Kenya's NTV maanei. ʻO ka pūnaewele pūnaewele o ka Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK). maanei. ʻO Gaykenya maanei. ʻO ke Komisina Kuleana Kanaka Kenya maanei.
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