LGBT rights in Papua New Guinea

Information about LGBT rights in Papua New Guinea

Homosexuality is prohibited according to section 210 of the penal code. Those caught engaging in anal sex can get punished with up to 7 years imprisonment.[1] This also applies to heterosexual "offenders". Other homosexual acts (acts of indecency) can be punished with up to 3 years imprisonment.[2]

Notes

1. ^ Spartacus International Gay Guide, page 1216. Bruno Gmunder Verlag, 2007.
2. ^ Spartacus International Gay Guide, page 1216. Bruno Gmunder Verlag, 2007.


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LGBT rights in Oceania
Australasia Australia Norfolk Island Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands New Zealand
Melanesia East Timor Fiji Indonesia1 New Caledonia Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu
Micronesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Northern Mariana Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru Palau
Polynesia American Samoa Cook Islands French Polynesia Niue Pitcairn Samoa Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Wallis and Futuna
1 Transcontinental country
LGBT social movements share related goals of social acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality, or transgenderism. LGBT refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and their movements include the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
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Civil Unions: Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New Hampshire (from January 2008). Domestic partnerships: California, Maine, Oregon (from January 2008), Washington, District of Columbia, and Hawaii.
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Discrimination

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Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
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Islamophobia
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Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
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LGBT history refers to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender cultures around the world, dating back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality within ancient civilizations.
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Here is a list of gay-rights organizations around the world. Note that some organizations support certain gay rights while opposing others.

International

  • Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
  • International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)

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A list of LGBT rights activists by country, in alphabetical order.

Australia

  • Rodney Croome

Canada

Germany

  • Volker Beck
  • Heinrich Himmler [1]
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
  • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Ireland


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Declaration of Montreal on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights is a document adopted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on July 29, 2006, by the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights which formed part of the first World Outgames.
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A Same-sex union refers to an enduring relationship between two people of the same gender.

Literary, historical, and archaeological evidence of such unions has been found for a number of diverse cultures as early as 2400 B.C.
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LGBT adoption refers to the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered people.

Legal status around the world

The factual accuracy of this section is disputed.

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LGBT rights opposition refers to various movements or attitudes which oppose the extension of certain rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The specific rights that are opposed may include rights to social equality, marriage or civil unions, adoption,
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Heterosexism is a term used to describe the presumption that everyone is heterosexual, and/or the belief that heterosexuals are naturally superior to homosexuals and bisexuals.
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Violence against LGBT people, queer identifying and the same-sex attracted are hate crimes which may occur either at the hands of individuals or groups, or as part of governmental enforcement of laws targeting people who are perceived to violate heteronormative rules and who
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Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756).
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LGBT rights in Australia have evolved through the history of Australia, with many changes occurring in recent past decades. Currently, same-sex equality is recognized under certain statutes while other laws apply differently for LGBT individuals (or people involved in same-sex
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Gays, lesbians and transgendered people (LGBT) have most of the same rights as heterosexuals in New Zealand. The two major exceptions as of 2007 are the right to adopt children as a couple, and the right to marry, although civil unions allow "unioned" couples many of the same rights as
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Melanesia (from Greek: μέλας black, νῆσος island) is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia.
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In 1997, Fiji became the second country in the world to explicitly protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution.

In 2005, Australian tourist Thomas McCosker had sex with Dhirendra Nadan and was sentenced to 2 years jail for sodomy.
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Lambda Indonesia" and other similar organization arose in the late 1980s and 1990s [3] . Today, some of the major LGBT associations in the nation include "Gaya Nusantara", "Arus Pelangi".
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Micronesia, from the Greek mikros (μικρός) (meaning small) and nesos (νῆσος) (meaning island), is a subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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Polynesia (from Greek: πολύς many, νῆσος island) is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
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