US-Based Kenyan Publicly Declares He's Gay

US-Based Kenyan Publicly Declares He's Gay

A Kenyan man living in the United States has come out to publicly declare that he is gay.

Paul Lukas, who works with Alaska Airlines, took to social media on Thursday to proclaim his sexual orientation, stating that he was tired of hiding his status.

In a post on Facebook, the mass communication graduate said he wanted to share with his social media followers about his sexuality after sharing the same with his family and close friends.

"I just want everyone to know me and accept me. Yes, I am gay and want to live my life," he wrote. 

Lukas said some members of his family rejected him after opening up about his sexuality but others accepted who he is.

" I came out to my family got rejected with some, others loved me even more, but yes that is all I want to be...Rainbow is my life. Ooh I just came out to Facebook family too," noted Lukas, a resident of Tacoma, Washington.

The US recognizes the rights of lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and is one of the countries where homosexuality is legal.

In May, Kenya's High Court declined to repeal sections of the country's Penal Code that criminalize same-sex relations.

Parts of Kenya’s penal code states that anyone who has “carnal knowledge… against the order of nature” can be imprisoned for up to 14 years.

Another section recommends a five-year jail sentence for “indecent practices between males.”
 

Comments

Jag (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 09:00am

Why is this news? He has told his friends and family why tell the world too? Why would I care if you’re gay or heterosexual?

ken motley (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 08:45pm

In reply to by Anno (not verified)

while I concur this isn't newsworthy, @ ANNO, is it really necessary to use slurs here to describe people? just remember a lot of the freedoms you enjoy in the states the same people you now slur have suffered and a lot died so you wouldn't have to sit at the back of the bus or drink from a fountain with dogs. you sound like a bitter sad person, crawl under a rock and don't come out.

Kenya. (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 09:15am

I have never seen somebody coming out to declare they are straight. What is the need to come out and say you are gay? Is it an accomplishment to that word Mkenya halisi use?.....Tacoma, Washington DC or Takoma, Washington, D.C?

Nani? (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 11:25pm

In reply to by Kenya. (not verified)

Of course heterosuxuals do it all the time, it just isn't news anymore. What exactly are you subconciously saying when you introduce your wife/husband/kids to friends? Engagements? Ruracios? Wedding committees? The list declaring heterosuality is endless!

Kenya. (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 09:59am

In reply to by Nani? (not verified)

@Nani, what is you are describing is totally different from declaring you are gay. The dude over here is not taking ruracio or introducing wife/husband/kids. If it were what you are describing his husband/wife will be with him.

imkgoogo (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 09:53am

What's the point in this story? Is the reporter excepting everyone in this great world to declare their sexual orientation?

gg (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 10:12am

It shouldn't be mandatory or relevant that people ere expected to declare the their private lives such as sex orientation. No one needs approval or acceptance from anyone, be who you are period and lead your life the way it pleases you.

Anonymous UI (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 11:44am

Homosexuality is anti-nature and against God. Fact; had Paul Lukas parents been gay, he would not be in this world today.
Homosexuality is not part of Kenyan or African culture it is rather a filthy borrowed culture from the west. (Robert Mugabe -UN Speech "We are not gays").
Before we ask our people to adopt this homosexual culture we must first understand the history of this evil, demonic and violent nature of this practice. Our own brothers who were carried as slaves were sodomized by their white masters in the "Sex Farms".
The process was known as "breaking the buck". It involved a strapping of negro slave who was defiant, beating him with a whip until he was bloody in front of his entire slave community. The master would then savagely sodomize the slave infront of his wife, family, friends and children so they can witness their father's sexual demise and humiliation. Buck breaking was the slave master's very effective tool to keep all young black slaves from ever being defiant and taking revenge. It also frightened the mother's and wives from ever giving consent to an uprising.
Buck breaking was so successful that it was made into a " Sex Farm" where the slave master could travel from plantation to plantation feeding their sadistic homosexual needs.
Imagine the psychological damage this has done to our black brothers over generations?
Ref: Slavery in the United states by John Simkin;
National humanities center resource toolbox on slaveholders Sexual Abuse of Slaves ;
Atlanta Black Star;
" Homosexuality & slavery- The history of Black Homosexuality in America ";
Sex Farms during slavery and the effiminization of Black man.
Mimicking and adopting other people's culture, without understanding the historic context and the negative impact and capacity to destroy our very own cultural and traditional beliefs, is a very dangerous road to take.

Mucang’ang’a (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 02:34pm

In reply to by Anonymous UI (not verified)

You know I was so ignorant as to why the black community hates the whites with such a passion until I did college history (1301 in Texas). My perception towards the white guy was changed generally (it was not my fault but my professor’s) The way the masters raped both men and women at will was just saddening. And yes, there never used to be homosexuals in Africa until the “bible bearer’ arrived.

Wololo mayie (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 06:04pm

In reply to by Anonymous UI (not verified)

Wacha zako, homosexuality prevailed way before America was founded.’The bitten peach or cut sleeves, china 600 bc, native Indians like Aztecs, Ancient Greece(Socrates)even ancient Egypt had nyankh -khnum & khnum-hotep (5th dynasty 2494-2345 bc)etc are ancient documentation of Shoganess. This idea of selectively blaming the colonialists for our current choices need to stop. This boy just likes 🍆 period. I thought the same ‘blamed wazungus arr the ones who criminalized this tabia?

Nani? (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 12:08am

In reply to by Anonymous UI (not verified)

FGM is part of our culture and corruption is not....now go write equally long pieces infusing God into each argument as being for FGM and against corruption. Coming to think of it, are referring to the western or tradition God? I am confused.

formerlyguest2 (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 12:08pm

Why is this news for heavens sake, we (i) do not care who does you, keep it to yourself and the world will not care either. I can't stand gay people and their narcissist behavior, go innovate something or change the world doing something meaningful that will help humanity rather than spend time telling us "oh look at me , I'm gay " Who cares!

MjuaJI. (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 01:56pm

Ni wengi ya Wakenya ambao ni mashoga. Lakini ni wakimia. Hawasemi hawatangazi. Wasiri siri, lakini wanakimya tu. Ni uamuzi walioamua wao wenyewe. Kukimia. Kutosema lolote. Wanafamu kitu kimoja: kujitokeza wazi kuutangazia ulimwengu kuwa wao ni mashoga, hakuwafaidi wao...hakumfaidi "MjuaAji, ila kwazusha sokomoko mitandaoni na vijijini. Sikashifu uamuzi wa yeyote kuhusu chaguo lake la kijinsia. La hasha! Kama Mkenya huyu Paul Lukas amechagua kuchokoroa kuchovyo chovyo nyuma kama ilivyo katika maumbile ya mbwa, mmmmm...puuuu sawa. Wewe mtu mzima. Lakini kama unatafuta sifa kutoka kwa Wamarekani, utaipata na uipate kwa wingi. Lakini maadili, utamaduni na desturi ya Mwafrika, inakupa uamuzi wako shingo upande. Umeamua kujirembesha, kujipodoa, na kutembea kama mwanamke kwa minajiri ya kutamaniwa na wanaume. Laiti ungelijua madhara ya kuchokoroa na kukorogwa kwenye mfereji wa kinyezi chako, usingelidhani kuwa shoga kutasuluhisha chochote maishani. Kujipamba kwa kutumia vipodozi, hereni, makorokoro, bangili, na kutembea kwa mwendo wa kunguru ili utamaniwe na wazungu na manyeuthi Wamarekani hakufai kwa kulaani. Fahamu hilo, liwaze hilo, sikiza hilo, na ukiweza tafuna hilo.

Miky Samu (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 02:22pm

Give Paul Lukas a break....I know Paul personally and I believe it took courage to come out... I choose not to throw stones at him but to embrace him and his sexuality...Paul, be happy wherever you are, only God knows why we are all created as we are....peace neighbour

formerlyguest2 (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 10:56pm

In reply to by Miky Samu (not verified)

Good for your and him, the rest of us do not know him intimately , so why the heck do we need to know about his sexuality? - there is nothing courageous here but trying to get some 5 min of fame or whatever he is peddling ! You are missing a huge point here- what paul does is his own business - the rest of us do not care !

Airee (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 09:13am

In reply to by Miky Samu (not verified)

Yeah, not just courage. It takes nerves of fucking steel and brass balls to match to let a tarimbo stretch them butt cheeks. Whatever makes him happy though I hope he isn't the kind that speak with a gay lisp. Can't stand those niggas!

Sungura (not verified)     Tue, 09/03/2019 @ 01:24am

In reply to by Airee (not verified)

Sasa that's what makes us all different. What's the difference between a lady taking up dick deep down her throat and even swallowing that uji and a gay man taking up his behind. Mimi nasema afadhali that gay man kuliko dame ambaye atatumia huo huo mdomo kuimbia Mungu sifa kila Sunday kanisani.

Musema (not verified)     Fri, 10/04/2019 @ 03:08pm

In reply to by Miky Samu (not verified)

Ya serpents seeds are like that...mbegu ya nyoka!

Romans 1:26-32 King James Version (KJV)
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

mkenya halisi (not verified)     Sun, 09/01/2019 @ 06:05pm

Ofcourse u can only declare such shit immoral stinking behaviour in united states of gormolla.Mrs lukas yr ur an adult n u can not insist that yr family have to love you when u make stupid decisions.Wee kaa huko na mashoga wale wengine.U start practicing such behaviours u cannot get out of it?Rishwa pepo mbaya.

Sungura (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 12:44am

Forget history, forget politics, forget science, forget skin color, forget religion. I just wanna deal with the person right infront of me. You're shitty, you get truck load of shit back at you. Kind? I'll be kind to you too. I've met shitty straight people and kind gay people and vise versa. It doesn't matter what your sexual orientation is and if it comes to judgment I've got a heap packed for straight folks. Leave gay people alone, wachaneni nao kabisa. Chunguzeni dhambi zenu before pointing fingers at another person. God is the ultimate judge.

formerlyguest2 (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 01:49pm

In reply to by Sungura (not verified)

Personally I do not have issue with any gay person until they want to keep on yelling on top of roof tops like they are something special ' oh look at me coming out gay blah!"

Nani? (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 09:02am

Can we be consistent in asking people not to flaunt their lives in our faces? When people announce their engagements, weddings, pre-weddings etc in newspapers and other public spaces, aren't they flaunting their heterosexuality in our faces? Personally, I have zero attraction to extremely heavy set women but I could never tell any of them not live and flaunt as they please.

Joe (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 02:33pm

Paul Was My Roommate In Kent And I Am Straight.I Never Knew He Was But I Really Respect His Feelings.Those Of You Don't Like Paul Coz Of This....U Have A Silly Judgement Of People.He Goes To Church In Kent Every Sunday.He Contributes To The Community...So Throw A Stone If U Feel U Are More Clean Before Our Creator.

Kenya. (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 04:40pm

In reply to by Joe (not verified)

@Joe, God hates sin. Choosing to live a sinful lifestyle is bad. But God is merciful, if you repent your sins he will forgive you. The phrase "do not judge" is misused a lot. It does not mean you should not use discernment.

Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)     Mon, 09/02/2019 @ 07:46pm

Mavi ya kuku wewe Lukas!; tafuta makartasi the right way. Marry a chungu badala ya kupeana mali ya serikali! IIBEET!

Sungura (not verified)     Tue, 09/03/2019 @ 01:31am

Straight folks are known to experiment with the lewdest, most weirdest sex stunts- some are being innovated even as we type. Lakini utawapata ndio hao mbele mbele, wameweka injili mbele na zile vituko wamefanya na hizo midomo, mikono, vidole, kidevu, kucha, ulimi, mapua mkinusa nusa vitu huko, Eeh! nini ingine mnafanyanga? Mnajijua tu! Lakini ku criticize watu mko mbele. Gays pia ni watoto wa Mungu. Times like these I really thank God that Mungu sio Mwanadamu.

Nani? (not verified)     Tue, 09/03/2019 @ 10:00pm

In reply to by Sungura (not verified)

I couldn't have said it better. Kudos. All I ask is people performing whatever on each other be consenting adults. Like I said, I am wired to like a particular type of woman who might be a turn off for other men or women. I would NEVER advocate the rights be taken away from people with differing tastes from mine....stick to your lane brothers and sisters.

mkenya halisi (not verified)     Tue, 09/03/2019 @ 01:56am

Hehehehe @joe yes faggets go to church too we have seen plenty catholic priests raping boys right n left n the stupid catholics followers do nothing.So personally i like the way middleast do like saudia Hang them n send them straight to hell juu this is western wazungu behaviours.Total madness stinking sewage nonsense.

Anna Kamau (not verified)     Wed, 09/04/2019 @ 08:51am

Sharing his sex orientation on his Facebook page was appropriate and what social media is about in relationship building. Setting the record straight was necessary in a medium where followers turn into friends, lovers and in many instances lead to marriage. He did not want to confuse nor mislead his followers and I commend him for his brevity given the close mindedness of the culture he comes from where gay sex is taboo and criminalized. In his own way he has moved the needle in advancing LQGTQ civil rights by his self acceptance and empowering a child who may be struggling with their sexual identity. Congrats Paul Lukas, live your life in truth and to the fullest!

Anna Kamau (not verified)     Wed, 09/04/2019 @ 03:51pm

Sharing his sex orientation on his Facebook page was appropriate and what social media is about in relationship building. Setting the record straight was necessary in a medium where followers turn into friends, lovers and in many instances lead to marriage. He did not want to confuse nor mislead his followers and I commend him for his brevity given the close mindedness of the culture he comes from where gay sex is taboo and criminalized. In his own way he has moved the needle in advancing LQGTQ civil rights by his self acceptance and empowering a child who may be struggling with their sexual identity. Congrats Paul Lukas, live your life in truth and to the fullest!

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