6th Annual Gay and Lbian Pri Celebrated Venezuela |

Contents:

• IN PICTUR: GAY PRI PARA IN VENEZUELA
• VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS
• GAY PRI MARCH CARAS, VENEZUELA
• 6TH ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN PRI CELEBRATED VENEZUELA

IN PICTUR: GAY PRI PARA IN VENEZUELA

"LGBTI stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex. ) 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.

VENEZUELA GAY: THE FOTTEN PARADISE FOR THE MOST ADVENTURO TRAVELLERS

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. "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.

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. 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.

GAY PRI MARCH CARAS, VENEZUELA

#3jul IMPORTANTE la ncentración personas en la marcha l ullo Gay en las ll Caras. 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 toward s gay and trans muny, activists Rters.

For years, Daniel Arzola endured homophobic abe om his neighbors Maray, a cy the north of Venezuela. Homophobic slogans were dbed on the walls of his hoe and he was shouted at the street.

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 Colombia.

6TH ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN PRI CELEBRATED VENEZUELA

The 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 Rters.

Wh the untry's health astcture stretched to a breakg pot by the enomic turmoil, a lack of dgs and medil suppli has particularly affected those livg wh HIV — both gay and straight. Several people participated a Gay Pri para Caras, Venezuela, wearg rabow lours and wavg rabow flags that symbolise the LGBTQ rights movement.