Gay group in mandalay, myanmar

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Those events were numerous, but there was one that stood out, if only for what happened afterwards. On the night of the 6th of July, a group of 12 gay men were detained. Attacks like that are nothing new in Burma, where homosexuality is illegal. The notoriously authoritarian generals who have ruled the country with an iron fist for almost five decades decided to relinquish some of their control in and form a quasi-civilian government.

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Only men are criminalised under this law. The law was inherited from the British during the colonial period, in which the English criminal law was imposed upon Myanmar. Myanmar retained the provision upon independence and continues to criminalise same-sex sexual activity today. There is some evidence of the law being enforced in recent years, particularly against transgender people who are regularly arrested by police, and the law is often also used to extort bribes from LGBT people.