Brazilians learned they have a gay ernor; LGBTQ acceptance is expandg some untri; and Chile adopted full marriage equaly.
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THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
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As Javier Corral explas The Polics of LGBTQ Rights Expansn Lat Ameri and the Caribbean, leftist movements were often as vilent their homophobia as those on the right. In Cuba, the regime of Fil Castro imprisoned gay men ternment mps durg the years followg the revolutn, nsirg their mands for polil rights to be “beouis nce. While Brazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro’s homophobic rhetoric and polici are well-documented, several of his center-right unterparts the regn have quietly embraced LGBTQ rights.
Organizatns like Chile’s Movimiento Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh) and the Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays have played key rol their untri’ movements toward equaly. On the posive si, Brazilians learned they have a gay ernor; evince is surfacg that LGBTQ acceptance is expandg some untri; the stat of LGBTQ people sports ntu to make posive headl; and Chile adopted full marriage equaly.
” While wily celebrated by many people on social media, Lee’s disclosure was somewhat ntroversial bee, while the closet, he supported Brazil’s publicly homophobic print, Jair Bolsonaro. Many English-speakg Caribbean natns have LGBTQ-uniendly ndns, cludg bans on homosexualy, non-regnn of civil unns, and high-levels of public tolerance. In Febary, the Commissn ma public a prevly nfintial lg that Jamai vlated the rights of a gay man and a lbian wh s 1864 law banng homosexual acts (the Offenc Agast the Person Act, otherwise known as the “buggery” statute).