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Contents:

• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
• TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS LAT AMERI
• A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
• HERE'S THE TTH ABOUT BEG A GAY LATO
• FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT
• HOW MACHISMO CULTURE IMPACTS GAY LATOS

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

Organizatns like Chile’s Movimiento Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh) and the Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays have played key rol their untri’ movements toward equaly. This year’s edn of the “Spartac Internatnal Gay Travel Inx, ” released Febary, plac several Lat Amerin untri among the most LGBT-iendly the world, belyg the stereotype of a regn drenched Catholicism-fed x, which ranks 138 of the world’s untri, lculat s sr based on creria cludg legislatn guaranteeg the LGBT rights to marriage and adoptn, as well as the equency of acts of vlence agast the muny. Each November, the cy hosts a large Pri ftival that attracts over 100, 000 people, and the ernment also vts and supports the LGBTIQ+ muny – an ternatnal gay bs and LGBT tourism nference lled Network360 tak place every Augt along wh the BADiversa week, which clus a variety of ftivals, events and ncerts.

The pal cy, Bogotá, is an excellent statn for LGBTIQ+ travelers who will fd a welg scene the Chapero neighborhood, home to gay hangouts like the bar/rtrants El Recreo Adán and Estación Cafe. Gay rights Uguay have long been rpected: homosexualy was crimalized 1934; anti-discrimatn laws have been place sce 2003; adoptn laws were enacted 2009, and gay marriage was legalized early 2013. As a sign of solidary wh s LGBTIQ+ muny, the Palac la Moneda (the formal office of the print) central Santiago lights up wh rabow lors on May 17 for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia (IDAHO).

TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS LAT AMERI

The eclectic dér rembl somethg om an LSD trip or Alice Wonrland, and the tablishment's self-proclaimed theme is “Pevian Transvte Kchen” – what the webse explas is a "tribute to the apocryphal Pevian miracle-worker followed by immigrants, prisoners, homosexuals, transsexuals and transvt, where margalized rage is weled and transformed to balm for tolerance and rpect. 2011’s “Libertad, ” which featur his former bandmate and Rebel -star Anahí, is one of the ’s bt LGBTQ+ equaly anthems Spanish — and Chávez dulg his bt gay life the mic vio. 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.

A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI

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. On the posive si, Brazilians learned they have a gay ernor; evince is surfacg that LGBTQ acceptance is expandg some untri; the stat of LGBTQ people sports ntu to make posive headl; and Chile adopted full marriage equaly. ” While wily celebrated by many people on social media, Lee’s disclosure was somewhat ntroversial bee, while the closet, he supported Brazil’s publicly homophobic print, Jair Bolsonaro.

In Febary, the Commissn ma public a prevly nfintial lg that Jamai vlated the rights of a gay man and a lbian wh s 1864 law banng homosexual acts (the Offenc Agast the Person Act, otherwise known as the “buggery” statute). The one time center of the Spanish Viceroyalty and Catholicism Lat Ameri is now a vibrant, smopolan cy wh numero ameni for the LGBT muny om clubs, fe rtrants, and gay owned and operated B&B’s.

HERE'S THE TTH ABOUT BEG A GAY LATO

'Walls are startg to cmble' "A lot of walls are startg to cmble, " says Charlie Vazquez, a New York-based thor whose fictn has appeared books such as "Bt Gay Love Stori: NYC. A 2007 survey nducted by the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network disvered that at schools where a Gay Stunt Alliance club existed, 59 percent of gay Lato stunts participated the club, says Elizabeth Diaz, a senr rearcher at the work.

Lours Torr, print of Amigas Latas, a lbian and bisexual support group, says the notn that Lato people are more homophobic and s men more macho is not only false, but tged wh racism.

FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).

HOW MACHISMO CULTURE IMPACTS GAY LATOS

For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view.