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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- RSIAN GAY ACTIVISTS DETAED AFTER UNSANCTNED LGBT RIGHTS RALLY IN MOSW
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
From attacks on drag shows and a nightclub to viral moments of queer joy, this year was tly a mixed bag of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer news. * international lgbt news *
of 1919 member anisatns om 169 untri mpaigng for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex rights. Speakg on homophobia the sport a lengthy statement 2021, Henrson said: “My view on this is very much the same as on any other form of discrimatn the game, whether relat to race, relig tolerance, disabily or any other.
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.
Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
RSIAN GAY ACTIVISTS DETAED AFTER UNSANCTNED LGBT RIGHTS RALLY IN MOSW
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * international lgbt news *
”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.
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * international lgbt news *
”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. 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 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. ”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. Proment German LGBTQ+ rights activist Anastasia Biefang has exprsed ncerns about an crease homophobic and anti-transgenr vlence and abe the untry, parg to rhetoric ed by the Nazis.
Gay Activists Detaed After Unsanctned LGBT Rally In Mosw * international lgbt news *
A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay upl.
LONDON (Rters) -Brish Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologised on Wednday to LGBT ary veterans who endured sexual abe, vlence, bullyg and harassment while servg the armed forc before a ban on homosexualy was lifted 2000. MADRID (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn.