Venezuela LGBTQ rights: Milary service members n be sent to prison for beg gay. - The Washgton Post

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• IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.
• STGGLG FOR GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS VENEZUELA

IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.

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STGGLG FOR GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS VENEZUELA

“Their power reli on the absolute ntrol of weapons and the sourc of illegal and legal enomy the untry, ” said Rocío San Miguel, a ary analyst based gay former service members told The Washgton Post their fai prsured them to enlist as a form of nversn therapy.

Ultimately, he cid to leave — and to flee the untry for Moreno, now a chef Spa, said she felt nstant discrimatn for beg gay, and prsure to tell her superrs if others her battaln were gay.

) we are a nservative untry, " said Ivan Mach, a 29-year-old dancer who says police equently harass him, accg him of g dgs and askg if he is month memorat the June 28, 1969, uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when patrons fought back durg a police raid, sparkg the morn LGBTQI rights movement. Arellano ped Venezuela wh a bullet his spe, fleeg across vlent and treachero terras, to have a chance of survival a place providg no guarante of a better last year, when the panmic first began s lethal asslt upon the world, Arellano, a 30-year-old gay man, was walkg home om a iend's at dk.

Arellano says lol police, wh ltle fundg and few rourc, told him they are unable to follow up and are unlikely to do so the Gomez, a gay Venezuelan refugee livg Cucuta, Colombia, ss down after a long day at the hospal where he is currently trag to be a is a mon occurrence Venezuela. Sadly, his story is not a March 2019 letter to ICE, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, the Las Ameris Immigrant Advocy Center, and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project said 12 gay and transgenr tae the Otero County Procsg Center New Mexi were regularly sexually harassed and abed.

That task is difficult and n endanger asylum seekers and their fai, pecially if they are taed much like many are the Uned Madrigal-Borloz, a gay Costa Rin lawyer, senr visg rearcher at Harvard Law School, and the Uned Natn's Inpennt Expert on Protectn Agast Vlence and Discrimatn Based on Sexual Orientatn and Genr Inty, has spent most of his adult life vtigatg the nuanc of LGBTQ+ discrimatn across the globe.

He is only the send person to have had this role and has certaly not been shy of ntroversy by llg out hate speech of relig lears and members of a July 2020 letter to the Turkish ernment, Madrigal-Borloz cricized Ali Erbas, the print of the directorate of relig affairs Turkey, who blamed homosexualy and premaral sex for the spread of HIV and COVID-19 while enuragg people to "e and fight together to protect people om this kd of evil" on natnal TV. LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Venezuela’s shrkg enomy has sparked an exod of LGBT+ people as the enomic crisis has put the brak on the untry’s growg tolerance towards s gay and trans muny, activists told the Thomson Rters that Venezuela was ever an easy place to be years, Daniel Arzola endured homophobic abe om his neighbors Maray, a cy the north of Venezuela.

”There are no official figur on the number of gay or trans migrants, but acrdg to the Uned Natns’ refugee agency, three ln people have fled Venezuela, wh the majory headg for neighborg the past three years, the Venezuelan enomy has shnk by a third, rultg what has been scribed as the worst enomic crisis to h the untry s turmoil has phed gay rights to the bottom of the pile of prri, wh fundg for many anizatns and rourc eher rced or cut entirely, a number of LGBT+ Venezuelans told the Thomson Rters Foundatn. ”Wh the untry’s health astcture stretched to breakg pot by the enomic turmoil, a lack of dgs and medil suppli has particularly affected those livg wh HIV - both gay and straight. 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.

In Febary 2021, a new penal me to effect Angola that no longer crimaliz nsensual same-sex nduct, scrappg lonial-era provisns that characterized homosexualy as “vic agast nature. 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 Augt 2020, the Court of Appeal led there had not been a proper vtigatn to a vlent homophobic attack 2018 agast a group of LGBT activists, which left at least six activists jured.

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.