Venezuela LGBTQ rights: Milary service members n be sent to prison for beg gay. - The Washgton Post

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• IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.
• 'MACHO' MADURO'S PERCEIVED GAY SLUR STIRS VENEZUELA

IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.

He had seen him gettg to a red r wh a man “who looked gay, ” prosecutors said urt documents.

The prosecutor, who repeatedly quoted soldiers g rogatory words for gay men, emed his actns “dishonorable, ” “unseemly” and “unworthy” of the a after that arrt, and more than 10 years after the Uned Stat repealed s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Venezuela ntu to prohib gay sex s ary, which is punishable by one to three years prison. But the urt’s judg have voted to expand some gay rights the past, and Simons said he felt nfint they would le favor of repealg the article.

'MACHO' MADURO'S PERCEIVED GAY SLUR STIRS VENEZUELA

But lawyers and advot say members of the armed forc received crimal sentenc for gay activy until documents publicly intify gay service members by name, intifitn number and addrs. Senate report entled “Employment of homosexuals and other sexual perverts by the Government. Feral employe spected of beg gay, argued that gay people and “other sex perverts” are “generally unsuable” for employment and “nstute secury risks.

“Their power reli on the absolute ntrol of weapons and the sourc of illegal and legal enomy the untry, ” said Rocío San Miguel, a ary analyst based gay former service members told The Washgton Post their fai prsured them to enlist as a form of nversn therapy. Others chose to leave, fed up wh a culture of homophobia and harassment or threatened wh crimal charg.

At one pot, a fellow service member told Juan he had been orred to vtigate whether he was gay. Then one night durg roll ll, the woman blurted out to all assembled that Álvarez was gay. Álvarez chose to stay, to prove to his manrs and fellow soldiers that he wouldn’t buckle to their prsure — “that even though I was gay I uld endure the same as them, ” he said.

Ultimately, he cid to leave — and to flee the untry for Moreno, now a chef Spa, said she felt nstant discrimatn for beg gay, and prsure to tell her superrs if others her battaln were gay. A supervisor said she had to, Moreno said, “bee they uldn’t allow gay people the armed forc. She was followed on her days off by service members who took pictur of her gay bars.

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