{"id":894,"date":"2023-03-13T18:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=894"},"modified":"2023-05-30T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T10:24:33","slug":"48-22-lgbtqi-in-kenya-supreme-court-victory-is-both-a-win-and-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"#48-22 LGBTQI+ in Kenya &#8230; Supreme Court victory is both a win and a loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After ten years of appeals, Kenya&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled in February 2023 that organizations with words like lesbian and gay in the title are allowed to register as NGOs. However,&nbsp; same-sex sexual relations have been illegal since the British occupation. This win has set off a frightening backlash against already marginalized sexual minorities. Activist and advocate Esther Nalima gives a detailed portrait of the hazards for such individuals. She says people have a right to express their feelings but not when it harms others&#8217; rights, and that holy books don&#8217;t only talk about sex they talk about love. Clips from the banned lesbian film Rafiki are included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esther Nelima is a legal officer and health advocate with the HIV &amp; AIDS people Alliance of Kenya, and a practitioner of the Sex Rights Africa methodology for educating leaders and the public to be accountable for their attitudes around sexual health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interview by Diana Wanyonyi. Film clips are from the trailer for Rafiki, found on the Toronto International Film Festival website. WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">x<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS48-22LGBTIQ+inKenya-28_50-320kbps.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS48-22LGBTIQ+inKenya-28_50-320kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rafiki-lesbiansInNairobi-1024x531.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rafiki-lesbiansInNairobi-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rafiki-lesbiansInNairobi-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rafiki-lesbiansInNairobi-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rafiki-lesbiansInNairobi.png 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After ten years of appeals, Kenya&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled in February 2023 that organizations with words like lesbian and gay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,197,195,27,152,196,146,32,36,155,60,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-courts","category-free-speech","category-health","category-human-rights","category-justice-system","category-lesbian-gay-bi-trans","category-health-mental-health","category-politics","category-religious-repression-opression","category-society-and-culture","category-spirituality-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}