Nepal has drafted a new law that would recriminalize gay sex. The nation’s first openly-gay politician Sunil Pant has told Gay Star News under the proposed law, gay sex acts will be punishable by three years in prison. The former MP says the new laws will also ban same-sex unions, oral and anal sex among straight couples, and narrow the definition of rape to only apply to women. Gay sex was decriminalized in Nepal in 2007 after it abolished its monarchy. Pant says there aren't any lgbti rights advocates in the current government while anti-homosexuality forces have been on the rise in the last three years in Nepal. “We are really concerned about this attempt of taking Nepal back to draconian era after so much progress we made. Unbelievable that the government is going all against the Supreme Court decisions on LGBTI rights and other minority and marginalized people's rights in Nepal,” he says. Read more here
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First published: Monday, 4th August 2014 - 9:11am