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

Contents:

• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
• IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.
• GAY LIFE VENEZUELA - VENEZUELA FOM

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

At 26 years old, the Pevian gay man was arrted by police officers while headg home shortly after midnight. Sebastián Urtia Lutz, a gay man, was attacked 2012 by a group of men while leavg a party a gay neighborhood Santiago.

On the other hand, Venezuela tops the list when to the lack of rights for same-sex upl or members of the LGBT group, says Omar Enrnacn, a polil scientist at New York’s Bard College and thor of Out the Periphery: Lat Ameri’s Gay Rights Revolutn. The suatn “dismiss this ia that the farther to the left you are the more likely you are to be pro-gay, ” Enrnacn says.

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

A 2015 report prepared by Venezuelan LGBT associatns for the Uned Natns said members of the muny “nstantly live suatns of discrimatn, ” and that lack of protectn for LGBT cizens “mak them fensels cizens an atmosphere of alarmg growth of homophobia and transphobia.

“If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says.

GAY LIFE VENEZUELA - VENEZUELA FOM

“The more Prottant they are, the ls likely they are (to be) acceptg, and the ls likely they are to have an active gay rights legislatn. The Catholic and evangelil church have siar views on homosexualy, although there are notable differenc.

While both oppose homosexualy, “the Catholic clergy tends to be ls opposed to anti-discrimatn statut than the evangelil clergy, ” explas Corral. “Sometim, the Catholic clergy has e out favor of civil unns while still opposg gay marriage. Crissthian Manuel Olivera Fuent, who works for MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, says some evangelil prits Pe have e out strongly the past few months preachg that homosexualy is a disease that n be cured.