People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully.
Contents:
- RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU
- ‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU
The 77-page report, “‘They Treated Us Monstro Ways’: Sexual Vlence Agast Men, Boys, and Transgenr Women the Syrian Conflict,” found that men and boys have been vulnerable to sexual vlence the Syrian nflict sce began. People Human Rights Watch terviewed said that gay and bisexual men, transgenr women, and nonbary people were subject to creased vlence based on their actual or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty. Transgenr women are often perceived as gay men Syria and are targeted for the same reasons. * violated gay *
44 percent of lbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physil vlence, or stalkg by an timate partner, pared to 35 percent of straight women26 percent of gay men and 37 percent of bisexual men experience rape, physil vlence, or stalkg by an timate partner, pared to 29 percent of straight men46 percent of bisexual women have been raped, pared to 17 percent of straight women and 13 percent of lbians22 percent of bisexual women have been raped by an timate partner, pared to 9 percent of straight women40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual vlence other than rape, pared to 21 percent of straight men. This report is based on terviews Human Rights Watch nducted Lebanon wh 40 gay and bisexual men and transgenr women—some of whom were perceived by perpetrators to be gay men—and non-bary dividuals, as well as 4 heterosexual men. This report foc on the experienc of gay and bisexual men and transgenr women who are survivors of nflict-related sexual vlence Syria orr to highlight the specific vulnerabili surroundg real and perceived sexual orientatn and genr inty.
However, evince suggts that gay and bisexual men and transgenr dividuals are more vulnerable to this type of vlence bee they are targeted for vlence, wh or whout nflict, based on their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty. Torture and ill-treatment of persons on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty is rampant armed nflict and perpetrated by State and non-State actors alike, wh rape and other forms of sexual vlence sometim beg ed as a form of ‘moral cleansg’ of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons. [M]ore nsistent monorg and analysis of and reportg on vlatns agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals, and the review of natnal legislatn to protect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex victims.
Cas that Human Rights Watch documented show that although men and boys are stopped at checkpots regardls of their sexual orientatn and genr inty, gay and bisexual men and transgenr dividuals were often sexually and verbally harassed and sexually abed on the basis that they were “soft lookg. Apart om beg targeted by Syrian forc at checkpots, tentn centers and wh the Syrian army, gay and bisexual men and boys and transgenr dividuals have also been targeted and executed by the Islamic State (ISIS), areas unr ISIS ntrol. In addn to beg targeted by state and non-state armed groups, gay and bisexual men and transgenr women told Human Rights Watch that LGBT dividuals Syria are rejected, ostracized, and subject to vlence by their fay members.
‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
A gay high school stunt was allegedly raped months after plats of bullyg fell of af ears, acrdg to a lawsu filed by the boy's mother. * violated gay *
Yoef, a 28-year-old gay male survivor of sexual vlence, told Human Rights Watch he observed officials the Al-Khattib Branch, a tentn facily n by the General Intelligence, targetg women, girls, men, and boys wh sexual vlence, g on “anyone who is agast them. He told Human Rights Watch that although he was not targeted by the telligence agency bee he was gay, once they learned about his sexual orientatn through checkg his phone, vlence durg terrogatns creased drastilly. Interviews nducted by Human Rights Watch show that although men and boys, regardls of sexual orientatn or genr inty, are targeted at checkpots, gay, bisexual and transgenr women are targeted for their “soft looks.
Some se workers told Human Rights Watch that they believe gay and bisexual men and transgenr women who are survivors of sexual vlence have slightly more accs to health servic Beit, pared to heterosexual survivors.
Although the Syrian penal f rape wh genr-ntral language, also crimaliz homosexual acts unr Article 520, which would clu male rape, by statg “every sexual terurse agast the orr of the nature” and punishable wh imprisonment by up to three years. A lawsu by the mother of a Wt Virgia boy suggts that homophobia may be a factor failg to prevent the boy's rape, and later ignorg high school stunt, who is gay, was allegedly bullied, asslted and raped by a fellow stunt 2017. The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
A 22-year-old gay man Brazil was attacked by three armed men and forced to rve homophobic slurs to his legs. * violated gay *
“Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights. “The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr.
KEY POINTSA 22-year-old gay man Brazil was attacked by three armed men last weekThe victim is now reverg, and police said they are vtigatg the cintActivists said the asslt was evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untryA 22-year-old gay man Brazil’s southern Santa Catara state was gang-raped and tortured last week what human rights activists scribed as a "btal" and "barbaric" act of vlence amid a growg ti of hate crime the victim, who was not named, was asslted the state's pal cy of Florianópolis by three men armed wh sharp objects who forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, The Guardian reported, cg the activists. "This is a ighteng crime but ’s very mon Brazil, and vlence - not only agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people but also women, black people and immigrants - is worseng, " said Associatn Defence of Human Rights print Liro Ávila.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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“I am eply alarmed by a wispread, profoundly negative ripti created by liberate actns to roll back the human rights of LGBT people at state level, ” he said, notg that the clu eply discrimatory measur seekg to rebuild stigma agast lbian and gay persons, limg prehensive sexual and genr tn for all, and accs to genr-affirmg treatment, sports and sgle-sex facili for trans and genr diverse persons. - The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A. It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS!
A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law. The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.
Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”.
An pennt UN human rights expert on Tuday warned that the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr diverse (LGBT) people are beg “liberately unrmed by some state ernments the Uned Stat”, urgg more actn on the part of the Bin admistratn to protect them. | * violated gay *
The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia.
”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * violated gay *
“I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.
The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.
McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple.