Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 24
A Pakistani man is currently in a mental hospital after he tried establishing the first gay club in the country, according to a recent report.
The man, whose identity has not been released, was interviewed by the Telegraph on Sunday shortly before he was institutionalized. The man explained that he filed an application to the deputy commissioner of Abbottabad to establish a gay club, which he tentatively called Lorenzo Gay Club. The application reportedly explained that the club would be designed to be a “great convenience and resource for many homosexual, bisexual and even some heterosexual people residing in Abbottabad in particular, and in other parts of the country in general.” The application also noted that “there would be no gay (or non-gay) sex (other than kissing).”
The man was then detained by authorities and transported to a mental hospital in Peshawar, which is roughly 125 miles west of Abbottabad, according to the report.
According to the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Pakistan still criminalizes homosexual acts through Section 377 of its national penal code.
The OHCHR document states that Pakistan’s provisions against homosexual acts “have been found to constitute a clear violation of international human rights law.”
According to Human Dignity Trust, a non-profit based in London, only gay men are criminalized under the Pakistan Penal Code.
Source: Fox News
