Advocy group Human Rights Watch released an -pth report Thursday that tails the abe and discrimatn the LGBTQ muny says fac the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized. From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat. “Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * crimes against lgbt community *
Ileana Garcia's (FL-R) office after the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ+ activists on March 9, 2022, Miami. While the cint is not beg vtigated as a hate crime, the arson is the latt a seri of attacks on the LGTBQ+ muny the wake of homophobic and transphobic legislatn beg passed Texas, Florida, and other stat across the untry. The digal billboards on display five Florida ci nounce the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten through third gra—a targeted attack on the LGBTQ+ muny.
But, even the most liberal ci are not immune to the impacts of homophobic and transphobic rhetoric. Sce Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” passed March, a dozen other nservative stat have exprsed a sire to pass intil legislatn.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
A 2021 study shows that LGBTQ+ teens stat wh homophobic and transphobic polici were more likely to attempt suici than those stat wh clive polici. In March, the CDC released data that nearly 47% of gay, lbian, and bisexual youth serly nsired attemptg suici the the 12 months before the survey. Advot fear legislatn like “Don’t Say Gay” will only exacerbate the nsequenc for queer and trans youth.
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St.
Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.