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 legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers.
Contents:
GAY ROMANIA
Asociația ACCEPT te prima anizație neguvernamentală drepturile omului d România re apără și promovează drepturile LGBTQIA+ (lbiene, gay, bisexuali, persoane transgenr, queer, tersex, asexuale) la nivel națnal. * lgbt romania grup *
Advot have nceled a regnal gatherg of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists Indonia’s pal, Jakarta, rponse to harassment and ath threats om Mlim nservativ. This progrs has been slow and cremental, spearhead by civil society efforts the regn to abolish laws that crimalize gay sex. The laws rerce societal prejudic, effectively givg tac legal sanctn for stigma, discrimatn, and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
The laws are vaguely word, have broad latu, and sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offens” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt. In July 2019, two gay men om Sat Vcent and the Grenad livg abroad filed a se challengg the nstutnaly of the discrimatory provisns the crimal .
Advot have nceled a regnal gatherg of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists Indonia’s pal, Jakarta, rponse to harassment and ath threats om Mlim nservativ. * lgbt romania grup *
Along wh Domi, Guyana, Grenada, Jamai, Sat Lucia—the other five untri the Caribbean that crimalize gay sex—Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntu to be an outlier a hemisphere that has chewed the crimalizatn of nsensual gay sex.
Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry. Some terviewe noted 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. The human rights ab and the ntued crimalizatn of gay sex Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntravene ternatnal human rights law.
In ls than a , five Caribbean untri have crimalized gay sex, brgg the Wtern Hemisphere closer to beg pletely ee of the discrimatory laws.
* lgbt romania grup *
Decrimalizatn may also facilate the ernment’s abily to further addrs homophobic and transphobic discrimatn var sectors, such as work and tn. Six untri the English-speakg Caribbean—Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia, addn to Sat Vcent and the Grenad—ntue to crimalize gay sex. In 2018, after a group of people publicly attacked two genr non-nformg dividuals prumed to be gay Calliaqua town, Gonsalv stated: “Jt let them be.
In 2019, two gay men livg abroad filed a se challengg the “buggery” and “gross cency” provisns of the Crimal Co. Randolph Man, a 22-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, said he feels unsafe on a daily basis due to homophobia his village:. Man said that 2019, he was attacked his neighborhood, and he believed the attack uld have been motivated by his sexual orientatn sce many people there know that he is gay.
Romania's bt gay bars dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and cise clubs. Exclive reviews, maps and disunts. * lgbt romania grup *
Maxwell Smh, a 20-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, said he experienced homophobic vlence on at least two ocsns.
Smh thks the assailants, who were not attackg anyone else, targeted him bee they know him form the neighborhood and know that he is a gay man:. In 2020, Smh was attacked by men hurlg homophobic sults Calliaqua, Sat Vcent, while walkg wh five iends:. Aled Henry, a 58-year-old bisexual man om Sat Vcent, said that March 2009, he suffered a homophobic attack that ed permanent damage to his speech, visn, motor functns, memory, and balance:.