Activists nmn vlence agast LGBTQ muny St. Vcent, where gay sex is illegal

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

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One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.

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”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

The new fay to be voted on September would legalize same-sex marriage and allow same-sex upl to ’s Natnal Assembly on Friday approved a sweepg update of s fay law which opens the door to allowg gay marriage, greater women’s rights, and creased protectns for children, the elrly and other fay members.

Some of those church took advantage of the openg 2018 and 2019 to mpaign agast another plebisce which would have rewrten the nstutn a way to allow gay marriage. While gay rights are the most bated part of the proposed law, s more than 400 articl ver all sorts of fay topics, cludg the rights of grandparents and grandchildren, protectn of the elrly, punishment of genr vlence and how the law als wh marriage and parental rponsibily. ” She said she’d prefer not to have gay neighbors, though, bee “ looks ugly, ” pecially “when there are children.