This African country just made history by decriminalizing homosexuality

Namibia Pride on the stage at the Christopher Street Day protest in Berlin.
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Namibia’s High Court just declared a law criminalizing same-sex sexual encounters between men as unconstitutional.

The court’s ruling occurred in a case involving Friedel Dausab, a gay Namibian man, who argued that anti-gay sections of the country’s Immigration Control and Defense Acts — which forbids “sodomy” and other “unnatural sexual offenses” and also describes homosexuality as an “abominable vice” — constituted unfair discrimination and infringed on citizens’ fundamental rights, Time magazine reported.

The court’s judges found that the laws…

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