Insi El Salvador's Prison Cell for Gay Former Gang Members | Time

Contents:

• GAY EL SALVADOR: LGBTQ TRAVEL GUI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EL SALVADOR
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• THE BEST SAN SALVADOR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN SALVADOR
• THE BEST EL SALVADOR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EL SALVADOR

GAY EL SALVADOR: LGBTQ TRAVEL GUI

We spent 4 nights El Salvador and were lucky enough to meet a lol gay uple lled Pasl and Joaqu who n a succsful (and betiful) hotel lled Los Almendros De San Lorenzo Suchoto.

The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EL SALVADOR

While this lg reprented a much need first step toward acuntabily for anti-trans vlence El Salvador, hate crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people there and neighborg Honduras and Guatemala have ntued. Gay: A synonym for homosexual many parts of the world; this report, ed specifilly to refer to the sexual orientatn of a man whose primary sexual and romantic attractn is toward other men. In the terim, issue regulatns clarifyg that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, whose safety nnot be assured Mexi, are among the vulnerable groups exempted om .

First, we tentnally sought out s of vlence, and many parts of the world, trans women and gay men may be at hight risk of beg targeted by perpetrators of vlence for vlatg genr norms. Cz Torr, then-director of sexual diversy the Secretariat of Social Incln, told Human Rights Watch that church were the source of a vol mpaign agast so-lled genr iology, a tch-all term that relig fundamentalists and others e to refer to a supposed gay and femist-led movement to subvert tradnal fai and social valu. Mar L., the gay man San Miguel who was threatened by police for standg the street wh his partner, said that on another ocsn, soldiers threatened him bee he was wearg an earrg.

One danger that fac many Salvadorans gang-ntrolled neighborhoods, but that has particular salience wh regard to trans people and some lbian, gay and bisexual people, is forced recment.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

Congrsmember Sandra Moran, who ma history 2015 as the first openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr person elected to Congrs, attempted to troduce such a law 2017 (Iniative 5395).

And Sabo C., Maya Quiché activists workg wh the digeno LGBT anizatn Kajib Kawoq, said that homophobia ntemporary digeno muni was part a legacy of Spanish lonialism and the imposn of Catholicism on Mayan muni, and that church were a signifint source of anti-LGBT discrimatn. [232] Human Rights Watch terviewed several LGBT people Jalapa and Guastatoya who scribed stanc of vlence agast other LGBT people they knew that appeared to be hate crim, cludg the murrs of at least two trans people Jalapa and an 18-year-old gay man Guastatoya 2018. Gay activist Juan Pablo Eslante, om Huehuetenango partment, said that many hate crim have nothg to do wh gangs: “Hate crim Huehue are by ordary civilians, sometim anized.

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A betician by tra, Iván had performed as Paqua La Del Barr, a Mexin sger who has bee a gay in, a drag show the town of Usumatlán, Zapa partment, after the town ftival. Estuardo Juárez, an activist wh the LGBT rights anizatn Lambda, said that one se Lambda had handled, muny members a village San Juan Satepéquez expelled a 17-year-old boy when they found out he was gay. Geraldo R., a 23-year-old gay man om Jalapa, said classmat had bullied him school for his “effemate manner, ” but teachers viewed him, not his classmat, as the problem, sendg him to school psychologists to attempt to change him.

Geraldo R., a 23-year-old gay man Jalapa, told Human Rights Watch that when he was 17, his boss at a ffee shop not only fired him but also outed him to his mother after fdg out that he was gay. [341] While lack of accs to marriage was not among the factors that led any LGBT asylum seekers terviewed by Human Rights Watch to leave their untry, the existence of such an amendment is an ditn of state-sponsored homophobia. Na G., a 26-year-old lbian om Tegucigalpa, said that when she was a teenager, her father expelled her olr half-brother om the home after he me out as gay: “My father said to him, ‘You’re not gog to ntamate my dghter.

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The story of Perla M., a 29-year-old transwoman om San Pedro Sula, is emblematic of the multiple forms of vlence that trans people, and some lbian, gay, and bisexual people, experience Honduras.

Humberto M., a gay man om Tegucigalpa, was imprisoned at the Natnal Penentiary Támara for two years, om 2013 to 2015, on murr charg, before he was ultimately acquted. Alberto G., a 34-year-old gay man om the Department of Colón, said that 2018 he was bikg back home after curfew when he was stopped by police a patrol r, who asked for his intifitn.