Human Rights Watch: Anti-gay laws promote vlence, discrimatn St. Vcent

Contents:

• THOANDS RALLY PRAGUE TO HONOR 2 SLA SLOVAK GAY MEN
• SLOVAKIA COULD TREAT KILLGS OUTSI GAY BAR AS TERRORISM, PROSECUTOR SAYS
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• SLOVAK POLICS AND GAY RIGHTS
• NO MORE HATE: LGBT+ SLOVAKS HOPE ELECTN WILL BE TURNG POT FOR GAY MUNY
• SLOVAKIA HOLDS REFERENDUM ON RTRICTG GAY RIGHTS

THOANDS RALLY PRAGUE TO HONOR 2 SLA SLOVAK GAY MEN

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SLOVAKIA COULD TREAT KILLGS OUTSI GAY BAR AS TERRORISM, PROSECUTOR SAYS

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

PRAGUE (AP) — Thoands rallied the Czech pal Wednday to honor two Slovak gay men shot ad this month outsi a bar Slovakia, and mand better protectn of LGBTQ people and their gatherg Prague’s central Wenclas Square was held the same day the funerals of Matúš Horváth and Juraj Vankulič were nducted said they boosted their prence at the Prague rally after they taed a man who was threatg to e a gun agast the LGBTQ people at the square. Roman Samotný, owner of Bratislava's gay bar Tepláren where two members of the LGBTQ+ muny were murred on October 13. Slovakia is reelg after the October 13 murr of two people at a gay bar Bratislava, the pal, by a young man nnected to far-right movements.

The shootg took place at the entrance of the gay bar Tepláreň downtown Bratislava. In the Czech Republic, where same-sex civic unns are allowed and which hosts one of the regn's largt Gay Pri paras, Print Miloš Zeman has stated clearly that he would veto a proposal to legalize gay marriage if were approved by Parliament. In Slovakia, same-sex civic unns and gay marriage are not legally permted.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

In Hungary, same-sex partnerships have been legal sce 2009, but gay marriage was nstutnally banned 2012. In 2020, the archbishop of Kraków, Poland's send-largt cy, publicly scribed gay rights as the new “plague” and lled on Polish cizens to fight agast them. Před čtyřmi lety řekl, že by nejmenoval lbu nebo gaye jako ústavní soudkyni nebo ústavního soudce!

Four years ago, he said that he would not appot a lbian or a gay person as a nstutnal judge or a nstutnal judge!

Bratislava's Tepláreň gay bar.

SLOVAK POLICS AND GAY RIGHTS

Rearch published this year found that more than 400, 000 people who are gay, transgenr or non-bary had been subjected to someone tryg to change, “cure” or supprs their sexual orientatn or genr a letter to Sunak seen by the Guardian, those phg for the ban to be enacted speedily said the ernment’s “moral failg” not yet publishg the legislatn “should ncern all”. By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet(Rters) -Slovakia uld treat the killg of two people outsi a well-known gay bar the pal Bratislava as an act of terrorism, a top prosecutor said on Friday, as vtigators looked eper to the shootg which has rattled the central European killgs, vtigated as a possible hate crime although police have yet to terme s motiv, have sparked outrage om policians and rights groups, and prompted the print to ll for reflectn on the polil climate the untry. Thoands gathered downtown Bratislava later on Friday to show solidary wh the LGBT muny, many wavg the rabow flags symbolisg the movement for gay rights or rryg banners like "Stop the vlence!

Who had ed a gun wh a laser sight, registered to a media reported the spect had posted msag wh the phras "hate crime" and "gay bar" hashtagged on Twter, and he had posted a manifto agast the LGBT and Jewish muni before the killgs.

The Constutnal Court of Slovakia has cid that several qutns that uld lim the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT*) persons will be opened to a public vote, a move which advot say is follows a petn iated by the Alliance for Fay, a nservative natnal anisatn that llected more than the 350, 000 signatur required to hold a referendum, and which seeks to “prerve marriage and fay” and “protect…social valu” three qutns that will be clud the referendum affirm the fn of marriage as a unn between a man and a woman, that only married and heterosexual upl n adopt a child, and that parents be able to opt their children out of subjects such as sexualy tn state-n schools. Commentators say relig and anti-gay anisatns have creasgly ed referenda sce the 1990s to lim the rights of LGBT the issue of sexualy tn, earlier October the Commissner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, Nils Muižnieks, reerated that “children have the right to receive factual rmatn about sexualy and genr diversy.

NO MORE HATE: LGBT+ SLOVAKS HOPE ELECTN WILL BE TURNG POT FOR GAY MUNY

Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said.

Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law. Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said. In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims.

Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment.

SLOVAKIA HOLDS REFERENDUM ON RTRICTG GAY RIGHTS

Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace.