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

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• GAY LIFE VENEZUELA - VENEZUELA FOM
• VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS
• MATRIMON GAY EN VENEZUELA: LA PROPUTA MADURO QUE NO LE GTABA A CHáVEZ
• MATRIMON GAY, TEMA PENDIENTE EN VENEZUELA
• VENEZUELA GAY: LOS SECRETOS LA VIDA GAY EN VENEZUELA
• ¿CóMO CRECER SIENDO GAY EN VENEZUELA?
• GAY VENEZUELA
• IN VENEZUELA, A SOLDIER N BE SENT TO PRISON FOR BEG GAY. THE URTS ULD CHANGE THAT.

GAY LIFE VENEZUELA - VENEZUELA FOM

“En el ntrato que firmen las parejas homosexual vamos a poner bien gran ‘ta actividad simbóli’ y n todo y que simbóli, un acto políti que manda un mensaje a todo el país”, claró el all Ernto Paraqueima, electo el pasado noviembre. Otra cisión l máximo tribunal 2016 renoció la protección los hogar homoparental en un so una pareja mujer, n un hijo ncebido a través fertilización artículo 44 l Código Civil que tablece que las unn son únimente entre hombre y mujer la prcipal barrera.

Que juec y diputados se alejen s prejuics y cumplan n su ber o servidor públis y se pongan a trabajar para que las parejas l mismo sexo protejan s faias”, cribió la activista Queria Fran en s res social en med l bate sobre la proputa l movimiento LGBTQ+ tá volviendo a prnar para entrar en la agenda en uno los país Améri Lata más atrasados en ta materia y también los más nservador, don las nuncias discrimación, homofobia e tolerancia a parejas gays son tidianas.

VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS

En bar y distes, un hecho recurrente que parejas homosexual que tén bailando o teniendo exprn afecto sean sadas los lugar por los enrgados, en algunos sos n vlencia verbal y físi. Nilás Maduro agó la banra l matrimon igualar y lo enendó al nuevo cuerpo diputados en 2020, en plena mpaña para las eleccn en las que el chavismo recuperó el ntrol la Asamblea Nacnal, pe a que para enentar a s adversars polítis a vec ha ado discursos homofóbis.

Palác Miraflor/Divulgação via REUTERSCARACAS (Rters) - O printe venezuelano, Nilás Maduro, pediu nta quta-feira que a Assembleia Nacnal do país bata o samento entre psoas do mmo sexo durante o próximo mandato que eça no íc janeiro, cando entárs do papa Francis apoiando a união civil claraçõ do papa divulgadas nta semana foram o sal mais claro já utilizado pelo lír da Igreja Católi sobre os direos das psoas homossexuais. O samento gay não é legal atualmente na Venezuela, que é majorariamente tóli, apar leis ou cisõ jurídis em outros país sul-amerinos o Argenta, Brasil e Colômbia que permem a união entre psoas do mmo sexo.

MATRIMON GAY EN VENEZUELA: LA PROPUTA MADURO QUE NO LE GTABA A CHáVEZ

) 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. Arellano ped Venezuela wh a bullet his spe, fleeg across vlent and treachero terras, to have a chance of survival a place providg no guarante of a better last year, when the panmic first began s lethal asslt upon the world, Arellano, a 30-year-old gay man, was walkg home om a iend's at dk.

Arellano says lol police, wh ltle fundg and few rourc, told him they are unable to follow up and are unlikely to do so the Gomez, a gay Venezuelan refugee livg Cucuta, Colombia, ss down after a long day at the hospal where he is currently trag to be a is a mon occurrence Venezuela.

In May 2016, the Natnal Assembly unanimoly approved a rolutn tablishg May 17 as the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia.

MATRIMON GAY, TEMA PENDIENTE EN VENEZUELA

"I was eer to be gay Venezuela, " Enmanuel Perez, one of HIAS's new social workers, explas of livg Pe, where homophobia n be worse than at home.

"This was ma abundantly clear when watchg Perez work wh a young gay Venezuelan migrant who had e to HIAS after beg physilly asslted by his Pevian boyiend. "Unfortunately, many police Pe are homophobic and threaten members of the Venezuelan LGBTQ+ muny wh portatn if they report abe. At all tim of the day, " Gtavo Asta, a gay Venezuelan migrant who is currently out on bail om ICE tentn, tells Out.

VENEZUELA GAY: LOS SECRETOS LA VIDA GAY EN VENEZUELA

Sadly, his story is not a March 2019 letter to ICE, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, the Las Ameris Immigrant Advocy Center, and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project said 12 gay and transgenr tae the Otero County Procsg Center New Mexi were regularly sexually harassed and abed.

¿CóMO CRECER SIENDO GAY EN VENEZUELA?

That task is difficult and n endanger asylum seekers and their fai, pecially if they are taed much like many are the Uned Madrigal-Borloz, a gay Costa Rin lawyer, senr visg rearcher at Harvard Law School, and the Uned Natn's Inpennt Expert on Protectn Agast Vlence and Discrimatn Based on Sexual Orientatn and Genr Inty, has spent most of his adult life vtigatg the nuanc of LGBTQ+ discrimatn across the globe. He is only the send person to have had this role and has certaly not been shy of ntroversy by llg out hate speech of relig lears and members of a July 2020 letter to the Turkish ernment, Madrigal-Borloz cricized Ali Erbas, the print of the directorate of relig affairs Turkey, who blamed homosexualy and premaral sex for the spread of HIV and COVID-19 while enuragg people to "e and fight together to protect people om this kd of evil" on natnal TV. From what I observe here throughout Colombia, wh the lns of Venezuelan's that have fled to Colombia, I n only nclu that the gay, transvte, bisexual and lbian muny Venezuela is thrivg as there are LGBT's everywhere you look here Colombia, even my small pueblo where I live outsi of Mell.

GAY VENEZUELA

“I also realized [leavg] was the only way I was gog to be able to be who I really was.”People take part the 35th Gay Pri Para on Francis Miranda Avenue, Caras on June 30, 2013.Leo Ramirez / AFP/Getty ImagFor Santana and many other LGBTQ Venezuelans livg abroad, leavg the untry was a necsary step toward livg more openly as a genr or sexual mory.“The basic issue is that we are not an issue,” said Isaac Perez, who left Venezuela 2015 and now liv Argenta.“When basic needs [are not beg met], when people are more ncerned wh fdg a meal to eat, you don’t have time to foc on [LGBTQ rights],” he explaed.Activists Wenll Oviedo and Yonatan MathsWenll OviedoMany tim those who do fight for progrs for the untry’s LGBTQ muny fd their own liv and livelihoods put at risk. “Victims prefer anonymy rather than beg doubly victimized by law enforcement.”Related: LGBTQ Activists Brazil Use Social Media to Spread AwarensThe challeng prent when reportg hate crim to lol law enforcement as an LGBTQ dividual Venezuela is somethg that Venezuelan artist Daniel Arzola knows om firsthand experience.Born a poor muny Maray, a cy northern Venezuela, Arzola suffered a vlent hate crime for beg gay while only 15.“Some neighbors tried to burn me alive, and they stroyed all my drawgs,” Arzola told NBC Out. As evince, he pots to the lack of posive LGBTQ characters on Venezuelan televisn and to ments ma by Print Maduro, who the past has been acced of g a homophobic slur to ridicule his polil opponent.“So that moment, I created ‘I Am Not a Joke,’” Arzola said.

“I exposed the ernment Venezuela, bee they are really homophobic.”It was then that Arzola began to receive threats of vlence agast his own personal safety, and the artist was forced to flee the untry 2014. Currently livg Chile, Arzola said the threats stopped after he left Venezuela but that his work is still beg obstcted other ways.Related: Argente Filmmaker Brgs Personal Touch to Gay CharactersSce November, Arzola has been tryg to renew his passport wh the Venezuelan embassy Chile so that he n travel to upg art exhibns of his work, but he said his efforts have been ignored.Arzola said that planned exhibns San Francis and Paris June will have to be nceled if he is unable to get his passport renewed time.“Even when you’re out of your untry, your natnaly n be a jail,” Arzola said. The amendment would also regnize same-sex marriag and genr chang done abroad and allow for gay people to adopt.But Adrian said the current social and polil suatn the untry mak difficult for her and other legislators to fulfill their rol as elected officials.“Durg the past year, the ernment tried to impe the Natnal Assembly to legislate or fulfill any of s functns,” Adrian said, referrg to a move ma March by the Venezuelan Supreme Court that stripped the Natnal Assembly of s powers.

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

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