An sential premise of this work is that three domant iologi expla opprsn agast BGL, as a rult of a genr system: adhn to genr stereotyp, androcentrism and heterosexism. Three hundred eighteen bisexual and gay mal (BG) and 188 bisexual and lbian femal (BL) were survey …
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- VLENCE AGAST BISEXUALS, GAYS AND LBIANS MEXI CY
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
* violence against gays in mexico *
MEXICO CITY (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Mexi is seeg a surge of extreme vlence toward LGBT+ people s adlit year half a , a leadg rights group said on Friday, cg s of victims btally stabbed and brazenly killed 2019, 117 lbian, gay, bi and trans people were killed Mexi, up almost a third pared wh 2018 and the hight number sce 2015, acrdg to LGBT+ advocy group Letra S. Overall Mexi, last year was the adlit on rerd, but the crease among the gay and trans muny was more severe, said Alejandro Bro, Letra S director.
5% 2019, the number of gay and trans people killed was 27% higher than 2018, said Letra than half the victims were transgenr women, while nearly a third were gay men. The untry was the send to implement such a law Lat Ameri after than half of Mexi’s 32 stat regnize gay marriage, and the natn’s top urt has led that trans people have a legal right to change their genr inty on official said the creasg visibily afford by advanc LGBT+ issu may have ntributed to the surgg vlence “is specifilly directed at LGBT people, ” he said.
Has led macho groups, fundamentalist sectors to reject this public prence of gays, lbians and trans people. ”Gay and trans people still face societal prejudice the predomantly Catholic untry where relig groups equently cricize LGBT+ a 2017 ernment survey, about a third of Mexins said they would not rent out a room to a gay or trans person.
VLENCE AGAST BISEXUALS, GAYS AND LBIANS MEXI CY
“Hate crim due to homophobia and transphobia are generally ma visible, ” said Patricia Merdo, a senator wh the opposn Cizens’ Movement party. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.