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• IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.
• VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS

IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.

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In May 2016, the Natnal Assembly unanimoly approved a rolutn tablishg May 17 as the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. "I was eer to be gay Venezuela, " Enmanuel Perez, one of HIAS's new social workers, explas of livg Pe, where homophobia n be worse than at home.

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VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS

At all tim of the day, " Gtavo Asta, a gay Venezuelan migrant who is currently out on bail om ICE tentn, tells Out. Sadly, his story is not a March 2019 letter to ICE, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, the Las Ameris Immigrant Advocy Center, and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project said 12 gay and transgenr tae the Otero County Procsg Center New Mexi were regularly sexually harassed and abed.