When 20 -year -old Maya thought of a meeting with a Facebook acquaintance two months ago, it came out a trap.
Maya explained how she met four men who assaulted her to be gay.
“He said ‘How can you be like this? It is not legal in Sri Lanka,” and defeated me, “Maya told DW.
“I did not go to the police, because there is no law here, and they will not take any action.”
Sri Lanka has not yet canceled Sections 365 and 365A of the Penal Code, colonial-e-era that “personnel intercourse against the order of nature” and “gross indecency work”.
Although the law widely applies to all types of sexual activities, with no reproductive nature, it uses “bees used against the LGBT community,” rights advocate lawyer Aritha Aritha Vikramasinghe told DW.
Wickramasinghe works with Iprono, a global group of organizations that provide free legal service to help people reach their rights.
He said that many friends of Maya have bitten her to be gay, saying that hate -directed hateful comments directed by her have impressed her deeply.
“When other people go and tell my family member, ‘how to hang like this?” I really feel upset.
History of discrimination
The colonial-e-iCo people of Sri Lanka were once seen in Asia. Many countries have canceled the thesis laws – especially in 2018 in 2018 and Singapore in 2022 – but Sri Lanka still lags behind.
The 27 -year -old performance artist, Kannan Sathurshan, said he felt that “trapped between society and law, and unstall to move forward” and were considering leaving Sri Lanka to live more openly with her lover.
“As a gay person, I can’t be open about who I am,” he said to DW. “There are young people who see me as a role model, but when they see that I am not even who I am, how will they be, how will they be?”
Although laws do not apply widely, LGBTQ+ people in Sri Lanka face discrimination in many aspects of life.
“Sri Lankan had never had any problem with homosexuality,” said Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, founder and director of LGBTQ+ Organization Ecqual Ground.
“It was the British that brought it to our country, and it was used by some politicians to do more divisions within the society to LGBTQI people,” said Fler-Caldera.
He told DW that the Sri Lankan Society had “a long way out” in the last 20 years, LGBTQ+ with far more public support for people. However, therefore, the LGBTQ+ community has increased in disgusting rhetoric cities.
Wickramasinghe said that although the use of the law was undergoing the “cool period”, police authorities continued to use it against LGBTQ+ people, which is unrestricted or contrary to passive reports.
Hey his organization handled the case of forcibly anal and vaginal examinations of LGBTQ+ Peepal Staple -run by policy.
Police media spokesman Frederick Udkumara Wootler told DW that the consent of the LGBTQ+ couples could not be prosecuted for sex in the absence of a complaint, in which a lacquer of force was used or consent was used.
Hey, the message of sensitivity towards individuals was conveyed to the police officers through circulars and instructions, “very clearly”, and said, “” LGBTQ+ will not be harassed against individuals.
Battle for deciminalization
Celebrity in Itbanifesto to cancel the LGBTQ+ community laws, led by the present government of Sri Lanka, Left Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
However, seven months after winning a supermascularity in the November Parliamentary elections, there is no office on the subject.
औपनिवेशिक-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ए-ई-कानून 2023 में 2023 में आगे रखा गया था।
In the same year, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka welcomed the move and said that the decimals would not be unconstitutional.
The court ruled that the disintegration of sexual activity amidst consenting adults to adults “only carries forward human dignity and thus cannot be considered as an office that should be maintained in the law of law.”
Advocate Wickramasinghe said that the DW Human Rights Commission had written to the government to ask them for a decimalization.
Edhil Suraj, Executive Director of LGBTQ+ Organization Ecutete, said the DW government’s lack of action was “suspicious”.
Heer said that the Equite ruling National People’s Power (NPP) was planning to meet MPs from opposition leaders and international stakeholders to advocate the decrying.
“We can’t express ourselves that we are real,” said. “Law is a real bad barrier to day-to-day life at many levels-eternally, social, political.”
Maya believes that a change in law will mean a change in the approach of both the community and beyond.
“If there is there [change in the] Law, boys will not be afraid to talk to each other, fall in love or have sex. They would be independent and without any fear, “Heer said.
“I am open about this. Imagine how people like me can not talk about it openly.”
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Maya’s last name has not been used for privacy reasons
Edited by: Keith Walker
