Statements
STATEMENT ON THE FORGED DOCUMENT BEING CIRCULATED
On May 19th, 2021, our attention was directed to a fake document that was released with our name attached to it. The document referred to the BBI ruling by Judge Joel Ngugi claiming that the judge was under fire for the ruling against the bill which doesn’t uphold or recognize the LGBTQ+ community. This document…
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IDAHOBIT 2021 – Together: Resisting, Supporting, Healing!
The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya is joyful to join Kenyans and people all over the world in marking the 2021 International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). This impactful initiative was first created in 2004 to bring attention to the ongoing violence and discrimination towards the LGBTQ+ community. The date, May…
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Statement on John Odada’s Sudden Demise
With deep sadness, we learned of the untimely passing of John Odada, Director of Kenya Youth Development and Education Support Association (KYdesa) and a leader in the GALCK Coalition. John Odada was a psychologist, human rights defender and HIV activist based in Nakuru, Kenya. For over a decade, he has championed the human rights of…
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GALCK’S STATEMENT REGARDING THE TRAGIC DEATH OF JOASH MOSOTI
The GALCK Secretariat is deeply saddened by the news of the tragic death of one of our own Joash Mosoti, a peer educator at Pema Kenya and a security focal person at Hapa Kenya and a paralegal based at the coast. Police officers confirmed Joash’s death at the scene on the morning of 11th May…
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Thank you
To everyone who has walked with us through this journey of fighting for equality for LGBTIQ+ folks in Kenya, we remain grateful. Between 2019 -2020 we received KES 163,943.24 in personal donations from folks around the world. We have received books and journals from individuals donated to the GALCK library and had people volunteer their…
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Rainbow Childhoods Anthology.
This collection of stories portrays different aspects of the LGBTQ+ experiences, their childhood struggles in understanding sex, gender roles, sexuality, and gender identity. In these deeply moving and empowering stories of LGBTQ+ persons in Kenya, readers will understand the lives of LGBTQ+ people growing up, from the beginning of their childhood experience to their young…
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Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya stands in solidarity with the Transgender community in Kenya and around the world. Today, the 20th of November 2019, marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, also known as International Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we remember and memorialise all who have lost their lives as a result of…
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Call to Action Statement: Sexual Minorities Uganda
For immediate release and circulation. CALL TO ACTION BY UGANDA’S LGBTQI+ COMMUNITY OCTOBER 17, 2019, KAMPALA, UGANDA: The constitutional court nullified the Anti-homosexuality Act in August of 2014 but there has been numerous press over the past weeks about a plan by a section of Ugandan legislature to re-introduce the law. In order to provide clarity on…
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Joint Statement on the Judgement on Consolidated Petitions 150 & 234 of 2016
Kenya Must Protect and Uphold the Constitutional Rights of ALL its Citizens Including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Gender Non-Binary Persons The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, The Nyanza, Rift Valley and Western LGBTQ Network, The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and LGBTQ+ partners, friends and allies, with great distress acknowledge…
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World AIDS Day 2018
The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) joins Kenyans and people around the world in marking the World AIDS Day. Established in 1988 to raise awareness on the AIDS pandemic and the lives lost to the disease, today marks 30 years of concerted dedication and solidarity towards ending AIDS. Today we not only remember…
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Decriminalisation of Consensual Same Gender Sex in India
In a momentous judgement by the Supreme court of India on Thursday 6th September 2018, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was effectively repealed. The now repealed section which held “Whoever voluntarily, has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or…
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KNCHR: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) joins Kenyans and people all over the world in marking the annual International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).This day was set in 2004 with the aim of drawing attention to the discrimination, violence and other human rights violations experienced by sexual and gender minorities all…
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