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.
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THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
* 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.