Lawmakers in the Central African nation of Gabon have voted to reverse one-year-old legislation that outlaws homosexuality; a first step in repealing the discriminatory law. On Tuesday, 48 MPs in the National Assembly voted in favour of a government-backed bill to repeal the 2019 provision that banned consensual “sexual relations between people of the same sex.” Twenty-four voted against, while 25 abstained. “Forty-eight lawmakers have shaken an entire nation and its customs and traditions,” one member of parliament who opposed the bill told Reuters.
The move is a welcome surprise, but the new bill will still need to be approved by the Senate to move towards becoming law. The vote appeared to be welcomed by the country’s first lady, Sylvia
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