‘Barbie’: Ken Has Never Been Barbie’s Boyiend. He’s Her Gay BFF.

Contents:

• BEG GAY MEXI
• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
• BEG GAY MEXI... - MAZATLAN FOM
• A LIFE OF FEAR FOR GAYS / FOR HOMOSEXUAL MEN MEXI, EVERY DAY BRGS THREAT OF DANGER
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

BEG GAY MEXI

Once you feel like you've tried everythg and you are bored wh your life, people bee gay, which is why there are so many gay celebri. Later that same day, I got to meet my adviser, who is an openly gay man, and I learned that he was jt one of many our school.

Sebastián Urtia Lutz, a gay man, was attacked 2012 by a group of men while leavg a party a gay neighborhood Santiago.

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

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.

BEG GAY MEXI... - MAZATLAN FOM

“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. While both oppose homosexualy, “the Catholic clergy tends to be ls opposed to anti-discrimatn statut than the evangelil clergy, ” explas Corral.

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.

Mexi offers a wi range of experienc for LGBTQ+ travelers, cludg smopolan ci, betiful gay-popular beach, culturally rich towns and endls historic s to explore.

A LIFE OF FEAR FOR GAYS / FOR HOMOSEXUAL MEN MEXI, EVERY DAY BRGS THREAT OF DANGER

The untry is strongly Catholic; even gay people are often fah-driven; and fay still plays a central role the liv of LGBTQ+ Mexins, who mt often exprs their sexualy discreetly. Intertgly, tolerance for homosexualy and non-bary genr inty is higher among digeno Mexins, pecially among Isthm Zapotecs, who regnize a distct and rpected third genr - muxe - and Yután Mayas.

Basic displays of same-sex affectn, like kissg and handholdg public (except for  or around a gay bar , say, Mexi Cy), are vatns for scty and potential backlash, which wouldn’t be much different om a small, nservative, ral town anywhere the world. The legalizatn of gay marriage has revigorated LGBTQ+ culture Mexi Cy and the place is rich wh art, culary experienc, historil s, parks, great people watchg and a super fun gay area lled Zona Rosa packed wh queer people, LGBTQ+-popular rtrants and gay bars.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

When the dghter gets married and leav home (ually at a very young age) the gay son generally assum the role of regiver to agg parents.

"Davidson, who reprented Soto Vega, said there was "overwhelmg ttimony showg severe persecutn of gays all areas of Mexi and therefore the abily of [Soto Vega] to move safely to any other area. "Mexi has no legislatn to penalize hate crim an many of Mexi's 31 stat still have provisns that nsir homosexualy a "transgrsn agast moraly and public cency.

I have lived Apul for 7 years which is very gay-iendly (wh an openly gay ernor) and here Queretaro for 3 (dto) and see no evince of gay-bashg at all.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Javier Menz checked his outf while gettg ready to dance at a homosexual nightclub on the outskirts of Mexi Cy where he performs wh the group Folklorigay. Covarbias, who heads the Gay Cultural Circle, a Mexi Cy- based gay rights group, traveled to Chiapas to prsure police thori to fd the killers. From 1995 to 1999, there were 190 killgs of gays, acrdg to a report last year by the Cizen's Commissn Agast Homophobic Hate Crim, an pennt group prised posed of proment Mexi Cy cizens.

"There is no lotn the untry where you n be openly gay whout beg harassed, " David Fernanz, a Mexi Cy human rights activist said a 1997 report for the U. The vlence agast gay men -- lbians are typilly ls overt about their sexualy and ls likely to be victims of vlence -- was tacly acknowledged by a U.

The Pasana urt granted asylum to a gay cross-drser named Gvanni Hernanz, sayg was not safe for him to return to his untry after he had been repeatedly beaten and raped by Mexin police. Tom Ammiano, print of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, says the Hernanz se "giv legimacy to how bad (ndns) are for gays Mexi. Last month, Ammiano met wh gay and human rights activists on a six-day vis to Mexi sponsored by the San Francis-based anizatn Global Exchange.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

"Many more gay people are the closet ( Mexi) bee they don't have the protectns we have -- at least on the books -- agast employment and hog discrimatn, " Ammiano said.

In 1998, Mexi Cy's ernment repealed legislatn that gave law enforcement officials the legal amework to arrt homosexuals. Gay bars are beg more mon, and the natn's two largt televisn works -- Televisa and TV Azte -- have replaced stereotypil gay characters wh posive gay rol on s popular soap operas.

Jt last month, most newspapers vered the story of a privately operated swimmg pool the cy of Aguaslient that displayed an entry sign that read: "No Dogs, No Homosexuals. Gay groups eventually forced the pool manager to remove the sign, but not before cy official Je Alvarez Meda told reporters that he would fire all gay employe disvered workg for the cy. "Homophobia is more your face" Mexi, said Ammiano, who prented a rolutn last month before the Board of Supervisors urgg Print-elect Vicente Fox to clu gay rights "as an tegral part of his natnal policy.