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
Lat Ameri has a long history of enactg equy for gay and trans people, but there's still a lot of work to be done. * lgbt rights in latin america *
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.” More recently, mpaigners have faced state reprsn om lears such as Niragua’s Daniel Ortega, who shuttered the offic of Fundación Xochiquetzal, the untry’s olst LGBTQ rights group, last year amid his crackdown on polil opponents.
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. Sebastián Urtia Lutz, a gay man, was attacked 2012 by a group of men while leavg a party a gay neighborhood Santiago.
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.