Venezuela LGBTQ rights: Milary service members n be sent to prison for beg gay. - The Washgton Post

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• 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.
• STGGLG FOR GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS

Gay Marriage⚭✖ Unregnized, same-sex marriage and civil unns bannedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment Discrimatn✖ Sexual orientatn onlyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Current statSce Mar 16, 2023Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned The Supreme Court of Jtice annulled sectn 565 of the Milary Jtice Co, which prevly banned same-sex sexual activy armed forc.

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

) we are a nservative untry, " said Ivan Mach, a 29-year-old dancer who says police equently harass him, accg him of g dgs and askg if he is month memorat the June 28, 1969, uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when patrons fought back durg a police raid, sparkg the morn LGBTQI rights movement. LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Venezuela’s shrkg enomy has sparked an exod of LGBT+ people as the enomic crisis has put the brak on the untry’s growg tolerance towards s gay and trans muny, activists told the Thomson Rters that Venezuela was ever an easy place to be years, Daniel Arzola endured homophobic abe om his neighbors Maray, a cy the north of Venezuela.

STGGLG FOR GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS VENEZUELA

”There are no official figur on the number of gay or trans migrants, but acrdg to the Uned Natns’ refugee agency, three ln people have fled Venezuela, wh the majory headg for neighborg the past three years, the Venezuelan enomy has shnk by a third, rultg what has been scribed as the worst enomic crisis to h the untry s turmoil has phed gay rights to the bottom of the pile of prri, wh fundg for many anizatns and rourc eher rced or cut entirely, a number of LGBT+ Venezuelans told the Thomson Rters Foundatn. Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg.

Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy. In Augt 2020, the Court of Appeal led there had not been a proper vtigatn to a vlent homophobic attack 2018 agast a group of LGBT activists, which left at least six activists jured.

In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him, and threatened to out him to his father. Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay.

The Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) and women’s rights group, rmed Human Rights Watch that observed an crease onle threats agast activists around the time of the march. In 2020, Print Bolsonaro acced the World Health Organizatn of centivizg homosexualy through s sexualy tn guil, while the Mister of Edutn nounced sexualy tn and attributed homosexualy young people to “maladjted fai.

”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu.

In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J.

Between January and June 2020, the natnal Human Rights Ombudspersons Office received 1, 134 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons. Article 29 of the Constutn of Bundi explicly bans same-sex Augt, Print Evariste Ndayishimye ma a televised speech which he scribed homosexualy as a “curse” and claimed that gay people were rponsible for Covid-19. Acrdg to Cameroonian LGBT rights anizatns, at least six LGBT people were prison as of Febary 2021 on homosexualy charg, cludg transgenr women who were arrted on the basis of genr exprsn.

Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante.

”For several months, Egyptians livg wh HIV, cludg gay men, faced obstacl to accsg HIV treatment as they feared retrievg their meditn om fever hospals, the only centers where people livg wh HIV n accs lifavg meditns, after the ernment signated them as treatment centers for Covid-19. Between October 2019 and April 2020 alone, at least seven trans women and two gay men were murred El Salvador, wh tails the s suggtg the killers had been motivated by hatred based on the victims’ genr inty or sexual orientatn.