A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS BATTLE AGAST EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN EXTENDS BEYOND THE GRAVE, AND TO THE SUPREME COURT
- PREVENTG EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AGAST LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR WORKERS (BROCHURE)
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE FACE HIGH RAT OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AND HARASSMENT
GAY RIGHTS BATTLE AGAST EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN EXTENDS BEYOND THE GRAVE, AND TO THE SUPREME COURT
Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday. * gay discrimination cases in the workplace *
“There is simply no pg the role tent plays here: Jt as sex is necsarily a but-for e when an employer discrimat agast homosexual or transgenr employe, an employer who discrimat on the grounds pably tends to rely on sex s cisnmakg, ” the opn read. “Today’s cisn is one of the urt’s most signifint lgs ever wh rpect to the civil rights of gay and transgenr dividuals, ” said Steve Vlack, CNN Supreme Court analyst and profsor at the Universy of Texas School of Law. The challeng pick up where the same-sex marriage battle left off 2015, when the urt led 5-4 that stat nnot ban gay men or lbians om gettg home worker’s se gog to Supreme Court"This is a more fundamental eedom than what was at stake Obergefell, " the same-sex marriage se won by Jam Obergefell and other LGBT platiffs, says Ria Tabac Mar of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn.
Conference of Catholic Bishops says openg employment protectn to gay men and lbians uld adversely affect fah-based schools, health re provirs and homels shelters that seek to abi by their own "relig and moral nvictns.
PREVENTG EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AGAST LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR WORKERS (BROCHURE)
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers. * gay discrimination cases in the workplace *
The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze.
Many people who feared the then-myster disease were “hyper-foced” on the ia that gay men were promiscuo and saw HIV-posive people as “sort of gettg what they served, ” says Maril. “Even if, as the state ntends, homosexuals n fd protectn laws and polici of general applitn, ” Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the majory opn, “[the Colorado law] go well beyond merely privg them of special rights.
“The Boy Suts asserts that homosexual nduct is nsistent wh the valu embodied the Sut Oath and Law, particularly those reprented by the terms ‘morally straight’ and ‘clean, ’ and that the anizatn do not want to promote homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr. “This iative was wrong many ways: It was great that they weren’t excludg young members, but was wrong to tell someone that you n be gay when you’re a child, but you’re immoral as an adult.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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The laws are vaguely word, have broad latu, and sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offens” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt. Along wh Domi, Guyana, Grenada, Jamai, Sat Lucia—the other five untri the Caribbean that crimalize gay sex—Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntu to be an outlier a hemisphere that has chewed the crimalizatn of nsensual gay sex. Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry.
Some terviewe noted that fay rejectn was often uched moralistic terms, echog the homophobic rhetoric preached some church, which are a rnerstone of social life and shape social attus.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Aled Henry, a 58-year-old bisexual man om Sat Vcent, said that March 2009, he suffered a homophobic attack that ed permanent damage to his speech, visn, motor functns, memory, and balance:.
Kyle Wilson, the 19-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent mentned above, tried to file plats at the Kgston police statn about five tim, all related to harassment public spac, but said he gave up when police appeared unwillg to help.
GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE FACE HIGH RAT OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AND HARASSMENT
For Melissa Ashton, the 28-year-old lbian om Sat Vcent, laws crimalizg same-sex nduct make her hant to go to the police for help related to homophobic vlence: “Nothg would e om gog to the police. Some terviewe noted that fay rejectn was often uched moralistic terms, echog the homophobic rhetoric preached some lol church, which are a rnerstone of social life and help shape social attus.
Sharon Nichols, a 29-year-old bisexual woman, said her mother recently beme more tolerant and is maly “ncerned about what others would thk” and about homophobic vlence agast Nichols.