Template:Did you know nominations/Criminalization of homosexuality
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 21:42, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
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Criminalization of homosexuality
- ... that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition?
Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 20:24, 13 January 2022 (UTC).
Nice article, Buidhe; good luck with the good article nomination. I believe that the hook is accurate to the text of the article, though it's open to question. The article currently says "The belief that the West is conspiring to depopulate Africa using homosexuality is also a common argument for retaining the criminalization of homosexuality in Africa", and the bit about being a Western import, which I think suffices, but it would be better to have closer wording in either the hook or the article. But maybe I missed something?
Otherwise, what I'm seeing is a well-referenced article, newly nominated. It may be long enough ;). No copyvio, QPQ done, interesting hook and broadly appealing. Only issue is "neocolonial imposition".
Irrelevant for DYK, but "Paternalism argues that ..."? I think "Paternalists" is better; it's not like philosophy itself speaks, otherwise we'd better be scared of schizoanalysis saying anything. "The Abrahamic religions all have negative attitudes towards homosexuality", same deal, and may need some couching language or better support for "all" (you put in the RM for Homosexuality and Judaism after all). Urve (talk) 10:28, 18 January 2022 (UTC)- Thanks for your review, Urve. I've added an explicit mention of how decriminalization of homosexuality is seen as neocolonialism. I've fixed the bit about paternalism and clarified that all Abrahamic religions traditionally hold negative views of homosexuality. Unfortunately, I cannot find any sources that tie LGBT-affirming religious denominations to the criminalization issue, or else that would get a mention here. (t · c) buidhe 16:36, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
