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• STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY

It was, however, part of a wir trend over a wir swath of Europe, argu Evelyne Paradis, executive director of the European branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe). Low pots of the year clud an attack on a LGBT muny center the Bulgarian pal, Sofia, led by a far-right lear who ran the untry's printial electn; a new law Hungary banng rmatn schools emed to promote homosexualy and genr change; and several so-lled "LGBT-iology ee zon" ntued to operate Poland.

Much outrage was directed at the new Hungarian legislatn, which crics say equat homosexualy wh pedophilia, but which Budapt and s natnalist Prime Mister Viktor Orban argued would protect children and fai.

“There is an assumptn that the state of gay rights Germany today is somethg that’s mostly due to events mocratic Wt Germany, which had a more vibrant gay culture and a more visible gay rights movement durg the 1970s, ” Huneke said.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

While the Wt’s activism died down after 1980, when a group of pro-pedophilia activists dispted a major gay rights event Wt Germany’s pal Bonn durg that year’s feral electn, activists the East ntued to anize, Huneke said.

As a member of the Equal Rights Coaln, the Global Equaly Fund, and the UN LGBTI Core Group, Germany plays an important role advotg for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) rights beyond s borrs. Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg.

Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy. In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him, and threatened to out him to his father.

Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay. The Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) and women’s rights group, rmed Human Rights Watch that observed an crease onle threats agast activists around the time of the march. In 2020, Print Bolsonaro acced the World Health Organizatn of centivizg homosexualy through s sexualy tn guil, while the Mister of Edutn nounced sexualy tn and attributed homosexualy young people to “maladjted fai.

”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu. In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J. Article 29 of the Constutn of Bundi explicly bans same-sex Augt, Print Evariste Ndayishimye ma a televised speech which he scribed homosexualy as a “curse” and claimed that gay people were rponsible for Covid-19.

Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante.

”For several months, Egyptians livg wh HIV, cludg gay men, faced obstacl to accsg HIV treatment as they feared retrievg their meditn om fever hospals, the only centers where people livg wh HIV n accs lifavg meditns, after the ernment signated them as treatment centers for Covid-19.

Between October 2019 and April 2020 alone, at least seven trans women and two gay men were murred El Salvador, wh tails the s suggtg the killers had been motivated by hatred based on the victims’ genr inty or sexual orientatn.

In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever Eswati Pri event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT equaly. In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever “Eswati Pri” event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT October 20, 2020, the Eswati High Court heard a challenge om Eswati Sexual and Genr Mori (ESGM) agast the Eswati Registrar of Compani’ refal to register ESGM as a pany. The amendment f “aggravated homosexualy” to clu serial offenrs or persons wh a prev nvictn for homosexualy, persons who admister dgs or substanc orr to have “unlawful rnal nnectn” wh a person of the same sex, persons havg same-sex relatns wh someone unr the age of 18 or wh a person who has a disabily, or a person wh HIV havg same sex sexual relatns.

The spate of killgs was, sadly, not out of the ordary: 2020, human rights ombudsperson Jordán Rodas said, at least 19 people known to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) were murred Guatemala. The spate of killgs was, sadly, not out of the ordary: 2020, human rights ombudsperson Jordán Rodas said at least 19 people known to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) were murred Guatemala. Authori creasgly e Indonia’s anti-pornography law as a pretext for police raids and prosecutns of LGBT May 2019, a former police brigadier filed a lawsu agast the central Java provcial police, claimg he had been fired for beg gay.

Article 401 holds that any person who ms an “immost act” public n be imprisoned for up to six months, a vague provisn that uld be ed to target sexual and genr mori, although such s have not been the years, thori have not held acuntable perpetrators, cludg secury forc, of kidnappgs, torture, and killgs of people perceived as gay and transgenr. In July 2019, Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court led that two women will receive pensatn om a Facebook er who posted a vio of them kissg on the social media platform whout their permissn, and soliced homophobic ments.

The clu a 2015 High Court lg favor of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn a se volvg eedom of assembly and associatn, which has been appealed by the ernment and currently awas rolutn at the Supreme Court; a 2018 Appeals Court lg prohibg forced anal examatns; and lgs affirmg transgenr and tersex people’s rights.