Peru Gives Green Light for Gays in Military to Have Sex
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Peru’s constitutional court has granted gays in the
military the freedom to have sex, declaring that a rule which had deemed such
relations illegal was unconstitutional.
Peru’s constitutional court has granted gays in the
military the freedom to have sex, declaring that a rule which had deemed such
relations illegal was unconstitutional.
The army’s rule had stipulated that military personnel
could not engage in sexual relations with persons of the same sex either
within or outside their barracks.
But constitutional court official Samuel Abad dubbed that
rule “completely discriminatory.”
Gays in the armed forces had been subject to expulsion or
prison sentences if they engaged in homosexual relations, even outside their
barracks, under a rule that Aldo Araujo of Lima’s Homosexual Movement gay
rights group declared “a violation of people’s right to privacy.”
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