THE 2022 Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Queer (LGBTQ) pri ftival Guyana is expected to kick off next month wh a packed lendar of events,
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The lnch took place on May 11 ahead of the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB), a SASOD release noted on Pri Ftival will be celebrated this year unr the IDAHOTB theme, “Our Bodi, Our Liv, Our Rights. ” In her brief remarks at the lnch, Miller clared that “the UK is very proud to be a champn for LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr] rights across the whole world. AS the world celebrated Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), the Guyana LGBTQ aln lnched s official lendar of events for the Guyana Pri Ftival 2023.
THE 2022 Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Queer (LGBTQ) pri ftival Guyana is expected to kick off next month wh a packed lendar of events, followg a two-year hiat. But to the approximately 300 revellers, the day would end a rabow of joyo mararie that would evably change the way the rt of the untry looked at persons of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) muny. In fact, queer inti (clive of homosexualy and transgenrism) have existed for all of human history.
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And while the general tone among legislatur may be that laws signed to stifle the LGBTQI muny are not enforced, that do not mean that we are no longer victims of the homophobic atmosphere that the laws years ago, I met a young man who intified as bisexual. It is knowg that while at work you may be subjected to homophobic slanr and expected to rema silent bee the nstutn do not protect your right to be ee om discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty. For LGBTQI persons that tensn is wh every day as we face a society that is agast our, on the day of the para, wasn’t a surprise that every gay, straight and transgenr person rried that same tensn as we began to ngregate at the Para Ground.
No ernment official was prent at the para and ments followg om the public are ttament to the still pervasive homophobic environment of the society. Guyana is the only untry South Ameri to crimalise homosexualy, unr Colonial-era laws, and LGBT people still often face discrimatn.