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The Menorah which was delivered to the King of Bhutan on 2014
Little did I know about the Kingdom of Bhutan before I accidently met a nice person in an elevator at some hotel in Florida. This was on 2011. We started talking, and found out that both of us have arrived to the same three day conference which will start the morning after. From this elevator “meeting”, we decided to have dinner together. At the time I was working at the Israeli consulate in New York, and was apart of the Israel Ministry of Tourism.
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Bhutan parliament decriminalizes same-sex relations
Bhutan’s parliament has voted to decriminalize same-sex relations.
The small South Asian nation is now the latest country to repeal sections of its penal code targeting consensual relations between people of the same gender.
On Thursday, both houses of parliament voted to amend articles 213 and 214, which criminalized “unnatural sex.”
Although LGBTQ relations were never specified in the language, “unnatural” was widely interpreted as same-sex acts.
Section 213 under the Bhutan Penal Code 2004 states that, “A defendant shall be guilty of the offense of unnatural sex, if the defendant engages in sodomy or any other sexual conduct that is against the order of nature.” Section 214 adds that the “offense of unnatural sex shall be a petty misdemeanor.”