Discussion: 19 "Gay' Students Suspended for Allegedly Being Gay in Kenya

RudeBoyy

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Nineteen Kenyan students were sent home from school on the suspicion that they were gay. Nine students from St. Mary’s Kibabi Boys High School in Bungoma County were sent home last Friday, and 10 more were sent home Monday after they were accused of homosexuality, according to Kenyan newspaper the Star.

Principal Mathew Namunwa has asked the boys to report back next week with their parents, pending a school investigation into the allegations. The boys had been involved in a heated debate with other students on homosexuality, in which they argued for gay rights. Their anti-gay opponents then accused the boys of homosexuality, which has been illegal in Kenya since colonial British rule.

In Kenya, sex between people of the same gender is illegal and punishable with up to 14 years in prison. Activists have said that LGBT Kenyans are often subject to threats, extortion or harassment and many never report such cases to the police in fear of persecution.

Kenyan leaders have ridiculed the U.S. Supreme Court’s watershed ruling last month that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, and some have even warned Obama not to bring his “gay agenda” with him during his trip next week. Activists have taken to the streets to protest against any promotion of homosexuality in the Christian-majority country.

However, the Obama administration, which lauded the court decision, has made it clear the president won’t back off LGBT rights. “When the president travels around the world, he does not hesitate to raise concerns about human rights,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told the press ahead of Obama’s trip. “I am confident that the president will not hesitate to make clear that the protection of basic fundamental human rights in Kenya is also a priority and consistent [with what] we hold dear here in the United States of America.”

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The Principal says any students who are found to be gay will be "counseled"

Guernica

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The boys had been involved in a heated debate with other students on homosexuality, in which they argued for gay rights. Their anti-gay opponents then accused the boys of homosexuality, which has been illegal in Kenya since colonial British rule.

a mess

Energy

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In Kenya, sex between people of the same gender is illegal and punishable with up to 14 years in prison

Girl bye

Priyanka Chopra

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In Kenya, sex between people of the same gender is illegal and punishable with up to 14 years in prison. Activists have said that LGBT Kenyans are often subject to threats, extortion or harassment and many never report such cases to the police in fear of persecution.

hot mess

mess

RudeBoyy

Mess at this flopping

heckinglovato

When will this mess stop in Asia?

Faruhs

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Originally posted by heckinglovato

When will this mess stop in Asia?

Since when is Kenya in Asia?

Reinvention

I'm so over these hideous countries. Someone educate and help them. Everyone buy a cheap Samsung over an iPhone, donate the difference to an educational Kenyan charity and by the time a few thousand of us have done this a huge difference will have been made.

But oops will that change your life ever so slightly? Well then, better not risk that for the sake of humanity.

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Originally posted by heckinglovato

When will this mess stop in Asia?

Your trolling was cute in the Zimbabwe president thread but I'm not buying it again honey.

Deuces

Africa's LGBT liberation will come....eventually.

LovingYourCareer

Of course it would be an African country.

Mavik

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Originally posted by RudeBoyy

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The Principal says any students who are found to be gay will be "counseled"

"Counseled". My bet is they're ending in prison or on death row.

RudeBoyy

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Originally posted by Mavik

"Counseled". My bet is they're ending in prison or on death row.

I imagine him expelling them, ruining their reputation and their lives being ruined.This is the same country that published a list of "top homos", their full names and their addresses in a popular newspaper.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/k...110515-131699/

TinkerbellClap

14 YEARS?

and the students shouldn't have really spoken their true minds, like you're living in a country that can prison you or even kill you for being gay, at least be discrete about it.

hot mess

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Originally posted by TinkerbellClap

14 YEARS?

and the students shouldn't have really spoken their true minds, like you're living in a country that can prison you or even kill you for being gay, at least be discrete about it.

if people took that advice everywhere, gays everywhere would still be living like that

and i don't think they've actually killed anyone or put anyone in prison for being gay

Mavik

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Originally posted by RudeBoyy

I imagine him expelling them, ruining their reputation and their lives being ruined.This is the same country that published a list of "top homos", their full names and their addresses in a popular newspaper.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/k...110515-131699/

This is so sad. And frustrating.

jonasha

That place is the pits.

Temporal

Wow. That's so tragic and awful.

Tymps.

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Originally posted by hot mess

if people took that advice everywhere, gays everywhere would still be living like that

Meh, I'd say homosexuality in Kenya now is more stigmatized than it's ever been in some places. I don't really have much quantitative evidence to supply but lots of countries never had formal laws against homosexuality or would expel students for being allegedly homosexual.

ks_dollar

Disgusting regulations.