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Contents:

• IN COLOMBIA, A GAY TEEN ENDS HIS LIFE
• GAY (LGBT) LIFE COLOMBIA - COLOMBIA FOM
• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
• THE 10 BEST COLOMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOMBIA

IN COLOMBIA, A GAY TEEN ENDS HIS LIFE

This is actually the biggt gay club the world, but the crowd isn't exclively gay - lots of women and straight guys too. I wasn't sure whether to vis, but takg to acunt s size, I was expected cent gay clubs there and to my surprise they exceed my expectatns. My mentned plac aren't exactly cheap for an average Colombian, and some like Rumours are equented by wealthier crowd, so I spect there are plac for poorer gay Colombians to go to, too, but I know nothg about them nor whether would be safe to vis them.

Neighbours e out to take photos and impromptu show has unique signifince the streets of El Carmen Bolívar, reprentg the remarkable rurgence of a muny once btally victimised by homophobic armed nearly 30 years, the town and surroundg regn of Mont María were famo for vlence perpetrated agast LGBTQ+ dividuals, targeted at one time or another over the untry’s long civil war by rightwg paraari, leftwg guerrillas, ernment soldiers and the the 1990s, paraari formed rponse to leftist activism and surgency throughout Colombia. While such btaly was wispread Colombia, El Carmen Bolívar and the surroundg regn of Mont María, was ma particularly public – cludg wh forced boxg match between gay men and transgenr vlence was rampant and meted out as a punishment.

“They said they were gog to kill them for beg gay, that they were gog to kill them for not beg part of mastream society. Dpe ongog secury om dg traffickg groups like the Clan l Golfo, LGBTQ+ people El Carmen Bolívar say they feel more secure now than ever, a gay 46-year-old, says he has experienced a huge change over the years.

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” He says he has LGBTQ+ iends who “fled om El Carmen Bolívar out of fear”, a 46-year-old gay man, says he feels much safer now, but has many iends who left out of fear of abe om armed groups“We’re nsc that armed groups are returng to the terrory, but at this moment, there haven’t been any threats directly agast the LGBT muny, ” says To, new perceived secury and acceptance is part the rult of a mpaign by Caribe Afirmativo, an anisatn which ns a muny centre the town. He utns that the creased visibily of LGBTQ+ people natnal polics n rerce discrimatn, as the flam of homophobia are fanned for polil El Carmen Bolívar still often face employment discrimatn bee of their sexual or genr inty, but say that they appreciate the current secury as a time to years of abe and threats, To, 30, ns a folk dance group wh many LGBTQ+ participants that has performed across Colombia. Neteen year old Jhonco Arango's most recent web project has certaly ught the lol media's eye his native Colombia, where his web seri “Yonkis” [] has had a very good receptn nsirg that tackl a topic that is still nsired highly sensive this Catholic untry: homosexualy.

Havg got back wh his long-term boyiend, started a universy reer dvisual arts, and menced Yonkis, the seri about gay teens Mell which he is rponsible for creatg, wrg, actg, directg, producg and edg.

Bano el proyecto la verdad… s que vi los teaser me pareció bano… solo pero que no se encillen solamente en os líos lo llejera… Espero que verdad mutren el otro lado… pienso personalmente que el mundo gay (y mas el paisa) tá muy nsumido por la lle, el alhol, las drogas, la superficialidad… Espero que impregnen el programa n profundidad… van a tener muchos visant así que centiven sas banas también… filidad, rpeto, etc. Awome project, really… sce I saw the teasers I thought would be great… I only hope that you don't pigeonhole only those fights of streetwalkg queen… I hope that you really show the other si… I personally believe that the gay world (and more so the paisa [person om the ffee producg regn of Colombia]) is obssed by the streets, alhol, dgs and superficialy… I hope that you doe the program wh pth… you will have many visors so also try to enurage ol thgs as well… fily, rpect, etc.

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

What Jhonco giv them as an answer is that the characters are that way bee they themselv are that way, and that for an LGBT muny to fight homophobia they have to get rid of discrimatn wh their own diverse muny.

He also sets up an vatn: any group which don't feel reprented by the seri should go ahead and do one of their own, showg how they live wh the gay muny and they'll have the Yonkis’ full support. In this rad terview [], Jhonco ndidly repli to the prenter's qutn regardg hurdl producg a gay webshow, statg that technil issu are particularly hard and seems almost surprised when the prenter suggts that discrimatn uld be a hurdle as well, sce acrdg to Arango, people have been very supportive of this iative. Sebastián Urtia Lutz, a gay man, was attacked 2012 by a group of men while leavg a party a gay neighborhood Santiago.

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On the other hand, Venezuela tops the list when to the lack of rights for same-sex upl or members of the LGBT group, says Omar Enrnacn, a polil scientist at New York’s Bard College and thor of Out the Periphery: Lat Ameri’s Gay Rights Revolutn. A 2015 report prepared by Venezuelan LGBT associatns for the Uned Natns said members of the muny “nstantly live suatns of discrimatn, ” and that lack of protectn for LGBT cizens “mak them fensels cizens an atmosphere of alarmg growth of homophobia and transphobia. “If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says.

“The more Prottant they are, the ls likely they are (to be) acceptg, and the ls likely they are to have an active gay rights legislatn. While both oppose homosexualy, “the Catholic clergy tends to be ls opposed to anti-discrimatn statut than the evangelil clergy, ” explas Corral. Crissthian Manuel Olivera Fuent, who works for MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, says some evangelil prits Pe have e out strongly the past few months preachg that homosexualy is a disease that n be cured.