‘You have no right to ll yourself Armenian’ Say Gay Man's Attackers

Contents:

• IT'S HARD TO BE GAY ARMENIA
• GAY YEREVAN, ARMENIA | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• ‘YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LL YOURSELF ARMENIAN’ SAY GAY MAN’S ATTACKERS

IT'S HARD TO BE GAY ARMENIA

Earlier this month, Armenia’s Crimal Court of Appeal led there had not been a proper vtigatn to a vlent homophobic attack two years ago agast a group of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists. REVOLUTIONArmenia crimalized same-sex relatns 2003, but the ex-Soviet republic is the send-worst untry for LGBT+ rights Europe, acrdg to a rankg by mpaign group ILGA gay and trans activists were optimistic that the untry’s ep-seated homophobia would start to cle after mass street protts April 2018 oted long-time lear Serzh by journalist-turned-polician Nikol Pashyan, the bloodls uprisg was wily backed by LGBT+ groups, who hoped that along wh new learship, the untry would see an improvement the human rights suatn.

And when new guys me to our group, they stood up for me, they said don’t hurt him, he’s our iend, he’s our brother, ” Petrosyan Hovsepyan said when the revolutn end May people reverted back to old homophobic habs.

GAY YEREVAN, ARMENIA | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATIONLs than a month after parliament elected Pashyan as actg prime mister on May 8, a group of 30 people attacked ne LGBT+ rights activists the southern village of perpetrators were given a llective pardon and law enforcement thori closed the was reopened after an appeal by Pk Armenia, s staff suatn for trans and genr non-nformg people is even worse than for the lbian, gay and bisexual muny Armenia, Martirosyan said. Life for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people Armenia, a socially nservative society where homophobia remas entrenched, is not difficulti are multiplied for those livg outsi the pal, where society is even ls tolerant towards LGBT people.

Socialisg is particularly difficult, wh no LGBT-iendly venu and few public plac where gay people n be sure they will not be subject to (not his real name), 25, said that there were no public entertament spac Gyumri or Vanadzor, the untry´s send and third largt ci rpectively, where LGBT people uld feel safe. “Yerevan also do not have a particularly iendly attu towards gays, but this is the only place Armenia where you n feel relatively ee, ” he Gabrielyan, head of the New Generatn NGO, believ that such tolerant attus towards LGBT people more remote plac of the untry has ed ternal migratn.

Among the hundreds of rtrants, pubs and ffee shops Yerevan, not a sgle public entertament venue ters to the members of the LGBT 2012, the DIY Club Yerevan - known as a gay hangout – was firebombed and s owner harassed. It proved that the muny needs such events, ” Sarkis Ishkhanyan, edor--chief of Inknagir Lerary Magaze, has wrten about LGBT issu for a long first article on gay men was published 2002, when homosexualy was still officially illegal Armenia.

‘YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LL YOURSELF ARMENIAN’ SAY GAY MAN’S ATTACKERS

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Pashyan hered a untry plagued wh rptn and myriad human rights problems, cludg lack of acuntabily for law enforcement ab, domtic vlence, vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, lack of accs to qualy tn for children wh disabili, and stutnalizatn of people wh psychosocial and tellectual disabili. The crimal do not regnize homophobia as an aggravatg crimal circumstance, and a ernment bill on equaly do not clu sexual orientatn and genr inty as grounds for protectn om gay men fear for their physil secury the ary, and some seek exemptn om servg the army.

Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg. Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy. In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him, and threatened to out him to his father.

Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay. The Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) and women’s rights group, rmed Human Rights Watch that observed an crease onle threats agast activists around the time of the march. In 2020, Print Bolsonaro acced the World Health Organizatn of centivizg homosexualy through s sexualy tn guil, while the Mister of Edutn nounced sexualy tn and attributed homosexualy young people to “maladjted fai.

”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu. In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J.