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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. 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.

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

“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.

“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.

GAY LIFE VENEZUELA - VENEZUELA FOM

Arellano ped Venezuela wh a bullet his spe, fleeg across vlent and treachero terras, to have a chance of survival a place providg no guarante of a better last year, when the panmic first began s lethal asslt upon the world, Arellano, a 30-year-old gay man, was walkg home om a iend's at dk. Arellano says lol police, wh ltle fundg and few rourc, told him they are unable to follow up and are unlikely to do so the Gomez, a gay Venezuelan refugee livg Cucuta, Colombia, ss down after a long day at the hospal where he is currently trag to be a is a mon occurrence Venezuela. In May 2016, the Natnal Assembly unanimoly approved a rolutn tablishg May 17 as the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia.

"I was eer to be gay Venezuela, " Enmanuel Perez, one of HIAS's new social workers, explas of livg Pe, where homophobia n be worse than at home. "This was ma abundantly clear when watchg Perez work wh a young gay Venezuelan migrant who had e to HIAS after beg physilly asslted by his Pevian boyiend.

"Unfortunately, many police Pe are homophobic and threaten members of the Venezuelan LGBTQ+ muny wh portatn if they report abe. At all tim of the day, " Gtavo Asta, a gay Venezuelan migrant who is currently out on bail om ICE tentn, tells Out. Sadly, his story is not a March 2019 letter to ICE, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, the Las Ameris Immigrant Advocy Center, and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project said 12 gay and transgenr tae the Otero County Procsg Center New Mexi were regularly sexually harassed and abed.