{"id":1922,"date":"2015-05-31T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:44:04","slug":"mozambique-to-officially-decriminalize-homosexuality-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1922","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique to officially decriminalize homosexuality on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new penal code <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/05\/29\/mozambiques-new-penal-code-decriminalising-homosexuality-set-to-take-effect\/\">will take effect in Mozambique<\/a> on Monday, June 1st that will no longer list homosexuality as a crime. The old penal code was originally approved in 1887 when Mozambique was still a colony of Portugal. Although homosexuality was never specifically mentioned, it was often charged as a crime using a clause that prohibited &#8220;vices against nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With this change, the number of countries officially criminalizing same sex behavior drops to 78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A new penal code will take effect in Mozambique on Monday, June 1st that will no longer list homosexuality as a crime. The old penal code was originally approved in 1887 when Mozambique was still a colony of Portugal. Although homosexuality was never specifically mentioned, it was often charged as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[97,72,96,95],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-africa","tag-inequality","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-mozambique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}