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• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

(Beit) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and their rights  Lebanon are part and parcel of the natnwi protts that began on October 17, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today a web feature. FILE - Activists om the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBTQ) muny Lebanon shout slogans llg on the ernment for more rights, Beit, June 27, 2020. Although homosexualy is still nsired a crime, the untry boasts at least half a dozen active LGBTQ advocy groups, as well as bars and clubs that openly ter to the muny.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights, once nsired taboo and exclud om the polil terra, have entered the mastream as a pillar of ristance for the first time.

” Over time, this rponse to homophobic chants gaed tractn and beme an effective unter-narrative, a way of rrectg the public rerd and shamg those who perpetuate homophobia and transphobia. The mistry argued that LGBTQ events vlate ctoms, tradns and "prcipl of relign" Lebanon, where polil power is spl along fah l between Shie and Sunni Mlim, Christian, Dze and other threatsLebanon's LGBTQ muny 2018 sred a succs when a urt led that same-sex nduct is not unlawful, but sce then has seen more setbacks than Beit port blast heavily impacted an ner-cy district wh many gay-iendly spac, also stroyg the Helem offic which have only recently reopened. The Beit port blast heavily impacted an ner-cy district wh many gay-iendly spac, also stroyg the Helem offic which have only recently reopened ANWAR AMRO AFP.

LGBTQ people have also featured disproportnately Lebanon's snowballg populatn exod that is generatg an epimic of queer mory "has suffered greatly over the past three years and is already ma hyper-vulnerable by the socenomic discrimatn has been facg, " said Zeidan, the latt cisn, he said, "is really exacerbatg that feelg of anxiety and that feelg of fear livg Lebanon" state move triggered an avalanche of homophobic slurs and threats om policians, relig thori and radil activists, as secury forc banned even private workshops and movie screengs. (Beit) – Lebane thori have unlawfully banned peaceful gathergs of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people, the Coaln to Defend Freedom of Exprsn Lebanon said today. (New York) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today.

“The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, ” said Cristian González Cabrera, LGBT rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. The laws sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offenc” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt.

While there have been no recent reported nvictns on the basis of the crimal provisns for nsensual gay sex, the laws stigmatize LGBT people and create an obstacle to full equaly. Some said that fay rejectn was often uched moralistic terms, echog the homophobic rhetoric preached some church, which are a rnerstone of social life and shape social attus Sat Vcent and the Grenad.

Every LGBT person terviewed said they wished to leave the untry and envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry.

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.