Malta leads the way for gay and transgenr rights Europe

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• LGBTQ ADVOT MEET WH MALTA’S BISHOPS AS ANTI-GAY PRIT CHARGED WH HATE CRIME
• GAY MALTA
• MALTA LEADS THE WAY FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS EUROPE
• MALTA LEADS THE WAY FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS EUROPE

LGBTQ ADVOT MEET WH MALTA’S BISHOPS AS ANTI-GAY PRIT CHARGED WH HATE CRIME

The prce and the future monarch spent the early years of their marriage Malta, the former base of the Brish Mederranean fleet, where Philip was posted to a, the expat explaed, had always been “very pleasant ” for gay men. ImageEnjoyg the terrace at a beach club Rankovic for The New York TimImageA Sunday-afternoon party Rankovic for The New York TimA tradn of toleranceI had e to Malta om my home France for a long weekend to explore what exactly mak so hospable to visors — gay and straight alike.

“The church may have owned on , but homosexualy was mon among ship crews, ” Mr. ImagePaceville, Malta’s nightlife district, puls wh gay and straight revelers sippg drks, backed by a soundtrack of club mic. It uld have been Hvar, Croatia, or Mykonos: Thk crowd terrac wh an ternatnal crowd of gay and straight revelers sippg giant cktails wh Day-Glo straws, and this summer’s earworm, Kylie Mogue’s “Padam Padam, ” permeatg the pavement.

(New York) – 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 crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, ” said Cristian González Cabrera, LGBT rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Sat Vcent and the Grenad is one of six untri the Wtern Hemisphere that still crimaliz gay sex.

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The laws sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offenc” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt. While there have been no recent reported nvictns on the basis of the crimal provisns for nsensual gay sex, the laws stigmatize LGBT people and create an obstacle to full equaly.

The other untri the regn that still crimalize gay sex are Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia.

As a 25-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent told Human Rights Watch, “People feel they n harass bee of the laws. If people are havg an argument, that’s [their] jtifitn for homophobia.

MALTA LEADS THE WAY FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS EUROPE

Some said 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 Sat Vcent and the Grenad. Every LGBT person terviewed said they wished to leave the untry and envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry.

MALTA LEADS THE WAY FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS EUROPE

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 legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia. “First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said.

“Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law.

A Christian chary worker Malta fac prosecutn for sharg his personal ttimony about rejectg homosexual activy on the rad. ” He read the Bible and saw clear nmnatns of homosexual activy. “This is the basic gospel, that one needs to repent om s, and homosexualy is not the only s.