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Angola decriminalizes same-sex relationships, bans anti-gay discrimination


Angola decriminalizes same-sex relationships, bans anti-gay discrimination
New penal code ends a colonial-era ban on gay sex that punished people with 14 years in prison
By Riley Gillis
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March 1, 2021
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In a rare but welcome move, Angola has decriminalized same-sex relationships. 
Angola’s penal code criminalizing homosexuality dates to the colonial era, when the African nation was a Portugese colony, and condemned same-sex sexual relationships as one of multiple “vices against nature.” As a result, gay people faced prison sentences of at least fourteen years.
After establishing a new penal code in 2019, the country’s president signed it into the law in November 2020, and it officially took effect on February 9. ....

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Angola decriminalised same-sex sexual relationships


Angola has decriminalised homosexuality, lifting an archaic ban on same-sex relationships and introducing anti-discrimination protections.
A new law overturned a ban on same-sex relationships which was inherited from when the country was a Portuguese colony. The ban described same-sex relationships as a “vice against nature”.
Activist Jean-Luc Romero-Michel tweeted that the law was a “great step forward” in the fight against state-sponsored discrimination against the LGBT+ community in the Southern African nation.
He wrote: “The law decriminalising homosexuality adopted in Angola in 2019 took effect today.
“Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is now reprehensible and even punishable by prison. ....

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