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Contents:

• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS ARGENTA
• IN MACHO ARGENTA, A NEW BEAN FOR GAY TOURISTS
• ARGENTA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE, A FIRST FOR REGN

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

On the other hand, Venezuela tops the list when to the lack of rights for same-sex upl or members of the LGBT group, says Omar Enrnacn, a polil scientist at New York’s Bard College and thor of Out the Periphery: Lat Ameri’s Gay Rights Revolutn.

A 2015 report prepared by Venezuelan LGBT associatns for the Uned Natns said members of the muny “nstantly live suatns of discrimatn, ” and that lack of protectn for LGBT cizens “mak them fensels cizens an atmosphere of alarmg growth of homophobia and transphobia.

“If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says. Crissthian Manuel Olivera Fuent, who works for MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, says some evangelil prits Pe have e out strongly the past few months preachg that homosexualy is a disease that n be cured.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS ARGENTA

Argenta legalized same-sex marriage Thursday, beg the first untry Lat Ameri to give gays and lbians all the legal rights that marriage brgs to heterosexual upl. But Argenta now be the first untry Lat Ameri to legalize same-sex marriage natnwi, grantg gays and lbians all the same rights and rponsibili that heterosexuals have. "Nearly every polil and social figure has spoken out favor of marriage equaly for everyone, " said Maria Rachid, print of the Argente Feratn of Lbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals.

IN MACHO ARGENTA, A NEW BEAN FOR GAY TOURISTS

”For the Domis, who changed their last nam so they uld more nvcgly pretend to be sisters Rsia, the stroll exemplified how much their liv had changed sce they moved, jog an creasg number of LGBTQ+ Rsians who cid to leave their homeland and settle Argenta to pe discrimatn and the war wh the past , livg openly as a member of the LGBTQ+ muny Rsia has grown creasgly December 2022, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed a law that signifintly expand rtrictns on activi seen as promotg LGBTQ+ rights the untry, buildg on a law that had been place sce 2013 and that pennt rearchers say led to a surge vlence agast sexual recently, the Kreml has even amed the Febary 2022 vasn of Ukrae partly as a way to fend nservative valu agast Wtern promotn of gay and transgenr rights. After several uls months, they cid to move to Argenta “feels so safe for me here, ” Boyarsky said, notg that he has yet to tell his children that he’s trans bee “ felt too dangero for them” to know that back home nsirg there’s a general belief that “there are no gays Rsia. “Tango, Che Guevara, and that was a Spanish lony, ” joked Nikolai Shhpan, a 26-year-old gay man who moved to Argenta’s pal October when he started fearg he uld be drafted to the war.

Authori have creased ntrols on Rsian migrants recently after the arrt of two alleged Rsian spi wh Argente passports Slovenia late last now, Shhpan is enjoyg livg openly as a gay man for the first time. In December 2022, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed a law that signifintly expand rtrictns on activi seen as promotg LGBTQ+ rights the untry, buildg on a law that had been place sce 2013 and that pennt rearchers say led to a surge vlence agast sexual recently, the Kreml has even amed the Febary 2022 vasn of Ukrae partly as a way to fend nservative valu agast Wtern promotn of gay and transgenr rights. “Tango, Che Guevera, and that was a Spanish lony, ” joked Nikolai Shhpan, a 26-year-old gay man who moved to Argenta’s pal October when he started fearg he uld be drafted to the war.

Authori have creased ntrols on Rsian migrants recently after the arrt of two alleged Rsian spi wh Argente passports Slovenia late last now, Shpan is enjoyg livg openly as a gay man for the first time.

ARGENTA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE, A FIRST FOR REGN

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That Buenos Air would be chosen for such a marketg experiment is a rult of a marked change over the past several years the acceptance of gay men and lbians Argente society. Five years ago this was the first major Lat Amerin cy to legalize same-sex unns, and this summer was host to a World Cup for gay soccer players, a first the regn. ”The three iends were among a mixed crowd of homosexuals and heterosexuals who lghed as Kyra and Sharon, drag queens om Barcelona, Spa, poked fun at Argenta’s print-elect, Crista Fernánz Kirchner, and sang a Marilyn Monroe-spired “Happy Birthday to You” to a male gut.

In other parts of the world, like the Castro district San Francis, gay people have stggled recently to mata a cultural prence the face of gentrifitn. “When people are eatg out of garbage ns really don’t matter if you are gay or not, ” said Osvaldo Bazán, a journalist and the thor of “History of Homosexualy Argenta From the Conqut of Ameri to the 21st Century.

Gay tango bars and we shops have sprouted up, and a new “iendly rd” helps travelers and lol rints alike to get disunts at gay-iendly shops and rtrants. Travel dtry experts timate that about 20 percent of the tourists here are gay — 300, 000 a year — and they spend $600 ln here as tourism has been flourishg, so, too, has lol gay activism. He said the group received three plats this year om gay upl who said hotel ncierg Buenos Air “asked them not to kiss the lobby bee children were prent.

The hotel, which has billed self as “hetero-iendly, ” is the send gay-themed hotel to be built by Juan Juliá, an entreprenr om Barcelona, where the first Axel opened three years ago.

“The majory of the gay muny is lookg more and more for hetero-iendly plac, ” stead of exclively gay plac, said Luciano F, a 29-year-old translator who watched the drag queen show. The term “homosexualy,” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.