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Contents:

• GUATEMALA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NGRSMAN BRAC FOR BATTLE
• THE GUATEMALAN ASYLUM SEEKER WHO CREATED A REFUGE FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR MIGRANTS ON THE US BORR
• DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY GUATEMALA ERARY
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY CENTRAL AMERI
• GUATEMALA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NGRSMAN BRAC FOR BATTLE
• GAY ANTIGUA GUATEMALA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY PRI GUATEMALA

GUATEMALA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NGRSMAN BRAC FOR BATTLE

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Homosexual activy Guatemala is marriage Guatemala? Gay Unns pendg. (New York) – Unintified assailants killed two transgenr women and one gay man Guatemala separate attacks wh the span of one week, cludg Andrea González, the lear of a trans rights anizatn, Human Rights Watch said today.

THE GUATEMALAN ASYLUM SEEKER WHO CREATED A REFUGE FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR MIGRANTS ON THE US BORR

Guatemalan civil society anizatns reported that the 3 recent killgs brg the total killgs of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people so far 2021 to at least 13. The Natnal Observatory of LGBTIQ+ Human Rights reported that a gay man was gunned down on June 14 Moral, Izabal. We are exposed, ” said Mar Vic, a gay activist who heads Somos, a Guatemalan LGBT+ rights group.

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Another Otrans member, Cecy Ixpata, was attacked and died hospal om her jur on June 9, followed by the most recent killg - a young gay man, Jose Manuel Vargas, who was shot ad on June 14, lol media have reported.

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people Guatemala face persistent abe and harassment fuelled by a macho culture and entrenched prejudic a socially nservative untry, activists rights fenr, Henry Espana om Guatemala’s Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office, said was val to punish those rponsible for the killgs and “send a msage to the populatn that crim agast LGBT people are not tolerated. The se not that “homosexual activy” is legal, there’s a legal abily to change genr, and that there are some discrimatn protectns for the LGBTI muny.

Estuardo Cifuent is a gay Guatemalan migrant and, as Lorena Arroyo of El País reports, “fled persecutn at home. An official Iran charge of “promotg Islamic valu” has reportedly been spend over an alleged gay sex vio. Guatemala’s LGBTQ+ muny is mourng after two transgenr women and a gay man were murred ls than a week durg pri González, a proment activist and lear the transgenr women’s anisatn Otrans Reas la Noche (Queens of the Night) was shot ad on 11 June the street near her home Guatemala Cy.

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José Manuel Vargas Villeda, a 22-year-old gay man was also shot and killed on 14 June Moral, 150 north-east of the pal. ”Aldo Dávila, a longtime LGBTQ+ activist and the first openly gay man Guatemala’s ngrs, do not thk is a cince that the spate of killgs occurred durg pri month.

There has been an latn of vlence [agast LGBTQ+ people], ” he told the Dávila, the vlence is tied to homophobic and transphobic disurse, cludg om public officials, but also reflects a broar discrimatn and vlence agast other margalised groups, cludg digeno people and women. Guatemala fac challeng protectg the rights of migrants; human rights fenrs; women and girls; and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. One gay man and two transgenr women—cludg Andrea González, legal reprentative of the advocy group OTRANS Queens of the Night—died separate attacks durg one week June.

GUATEMALA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NGRSMAN BRAC FOR BATTLE

BOGOTA (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Guatemala’s first openly gay ngrsman Aldo Davila was only elected two months ago and has yet to take up his seat, but ath threats have already stopped him walkg the streets of his own cy. “I’m seen like the enemy om wh, ” he told the Thomson Rters people already have few legal rights socially nservative, Catholic-majory Guatemala and Davila fears the suatn is gettg worse, driven by the growg fluence of evangelil Christian groups polics and are mostly cril of gay rights and believe marriage should only be between a man and a woman. Together wh Rource Center Matamoros, an NGO that had helped him to fd somewhere to stay and provid legal aid on his arrival Mexi, Cifuent set up Rabow Bridge, an anizatn to help migrants om the LGBT discrimatn agast LGBT migrantsEstuardo (left) wh migrants stayg at the Rabow Bridge refuge Febary Guerrero Durg the months he spent Matamoros, Cifuent noticed that gay and transsexual people the MPP system were subjected to double discrimatn, as migrants and bee of their sexual orientatn, which ma them more vulnerable to vlent attacks.

Durg an EL PAÍS vis at the end of Febary there were three transgenr women, two Honduran women and a Cuban woman, all of whom had been persecuted their home untri bee of their self-intifitn, and five homosexual men om Cuba, Niragua and Venezuela. Expect the lowlands around Tikal to be hot and humid and the volnos to be que GuatemalaThough homosexualy is legal for persons over 18 years of age, the realy is that Guatemala is a mostly Catholic and socially nservative untry not entirely acceptg of the LGBTQ muny.

You’ll fd Guatemala’s most lively gay scene the pal cy, where there’s a smatterg of gay bars and an annual Pri ftival. That said, public displays of affectn are ill-advised anywhere the untry, and even tourist hot-spots, expect the gay muny to be discreet. Atlán Lake | Photo: Mar Anton ReyDay 6: Drive to Semuc Champey (via Cobán)The next spot on our gay Guatemala erary is a b of a trek, so ’s bt to break the seven-hour journey up wh a stop at Coban.

GAY ANTIGUA GUATEMALA TRAVEL GUI

This will be your base for visg the inic Tikal Rus—next up on your gay Guatemala erary. THIS IS A CONTINUOUSLY UPDATING RESOURCE - Please help keep current by mentg or msagg wh new rmatnGUATEMALAGay Marriage (nor civil unns or domtic partnership) is not regnized Guatemala.

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It has been hotly bated and legislatn was troduced last year to legalize gay marriage and swiftly failed. However, Guatemala also elected s first openly gay person to the Senate this year and Guatemala Cy hosts an annual, well-attend gay-pri para. Attus towards homosexualy vary wily different parts of Guatemala.

Antigua is generally gay-acceptg but not very gay “open” – ’s a low-key acceptance.