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Life can be dangerous for gay and transgender people in Papua New Guinea, but many have found a safe haven in a village in Port Moresby's northwest.

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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – As an openly gay man in Papua New Guinea, where sex between men is illegal and stigma and violence widespread, year-old Kapera Patrick remembers thugs pelting.

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Life can be dangerous for gay and transgender people in Papua New Guinea, but many have found a safe haven in a village in Port Moresby's northwest.

Only men are criminalised under this law. The law was inherited from Australia during the colonial period, in which the Australian criminal law, itself based upon the Queensland Criminal Code drafted during British colonisation, was imposed upon Papua New Guinea. Although the Australian states began a two-decade process of decriminalisation in , Papua New Guinea gained its independence that same year and so retained the provision and continues to criminalise same-sex sexual activity today.

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – As an openly gay man in Papua New Guinea, where sex between men is illegal and stigma and violence widespread, year-old Kapera Patrick remembers thugs pelting.

Hanuabada village is one of few places that gay and transgender men can live in relative safety in Papua New Guinea, a country where homosexuality is illegal. Around thirty gay men permanently live in the village, a collection of traditional-style Papuan houses on stilts. Other PNG homosexuals have moved there from other places around the country.