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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity (www.wearequeeraf.com)
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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/lgbtq_plus/p/1184160/why-niger-explicitly-criminalising-asexuality-is-significant-to-everyone-regardless-of-ident

To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'

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[–] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

Going more by Occam's razor, and a bit of Hanlon's: They copy-pasted every queer term they could find, and dumped it into the gay-bad bill. The junta may or may not have known what asexual even is.

It's an islamic country, which also has evangelical missionary influence, and positions itself as anti-Western (when tolerance is highly associated with the West), so that's a great way to win political points. Now, poorly written laws like that would be a problem... if they had rule of law and working courts in the first place, which they don't.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    This is also highly likely. Anti-LGBTQIA+ folks aren't exactly known for being well-versed in their queer terminology, and I can totally see the "A" (hell, probably the "I" too) getting swept up in general anti-queer measures, even when it's nonsensical.

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