No matter that fellow activists are optimistic that Kenya’s High Court will rule that the colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex are unconstitutional. In Kenya, people convicted of gay sex face up to 14 years in prison. Last year, an appeals court ruled unlawful the use of forced anal exams to test whether two men had gay sex. The court was to deliver its ruling on whether to decriminalize same sex relations in February, but then postponed it until May. Gay rights are “not of any major importance” in the country, President Uhuru Kenyatta told CNN in an interview last year.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 23, 2019 09:45 UTC