Why Is Lat Ameri So Progrsive on Gay Rights? - Room for Debate

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
• WHY IS LAT AMERI SO PROGRSIVE ON GAY RIGHTS?
• THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI
• PATO. GAY DICTNARY (LAT AMERI).

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

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. “If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says.

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. Whout a word, she says, he started his motorbike and ro off, abandong her to her cint highlights a growg paradox Lat Ameri, a regn which has some of the hight levels of acceptance of LGBT rights the world but also some of the hight rat of homophobic and transphobic vlence.

TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN VATNS LAT AMERI

A 2015 study by the Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights reported nearly 600 homicis of gay men, lbians or transgenr people, motivated by their sexual inty, between January 2013 and March 2014 throughout Lat Ameri.

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

He has stck a ls moralistic tone on a range of social issu cludg his groundbreakg 2013 ment: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? Below we've piled a list of four of the most LGBTIQ+ iendly ci South Ameri, statns where gay, queer and trans travelers will fd thrivg muni and plenty to explore.

Argenta is socially liberal pared to most of s neighbors – was the first untry South Ameri to legalize gay marriage July 2010, and the lg also clud full adoptn rights. 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).

WHY IS LAT AMERI SO PROGRSIVE ON GAY RIGHTS?

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. Although ls progrsive stat still have a ways to go overg social stigmas and cultural norms, gay rights and eedoms have ma great stris untri like Argenta, Brazil, Colombia, Uguay and Mexi. 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.

The open sexualy of Carnaval extends throughout the year the form of Pri paras, lavish gay owned rorts and hotels, trendy bars and clubs, and numero LGBT ftivals. 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. From the numero gay iendly hotels and ns and the ocsnal gay club, to one of the most open muni Central Ameri, San Jose is jt the start of gay iendly exploratns Costa Ri.

The law, signed by Print Crista Fernánz Kirchner on July 21, 2010, means that civil registri n now procs marriage licens for gay upl wh the first ceremony set for Augt 13 Buenos Air. Yet same-sex civil unns, which give homosexual upl some of the rights enjoyed by heterosexual on (cludg social secury herance and jot ownership of property, but excludg adoptn rights), are legal Uguay (2008), Ecuador (2008), Colombia (2009), Brazil (sce 2004), and a few Mexin and Venezuelan stat.

THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI

Followg the publitn of semal rearch on polil tolerance that exam the impact of relig valu toward homosexuals (Gibson and Ted 1988; Golebwska 1995), we clu two variabl that are nsired to be key: importance of relign and relig group participatn. Several scholars have found that disapproval of homosexual rights is hight among dividuals wh strong relig inti and who attend relig servic equently (Ellison and Mick 1993; Herek 1998; Herek and Capan 1995, 1996; Olsen, Cadge, and Harrison 2006; Seltzer 1993; Wilx and Wolport 2000). While Atheists are expected to exprs tolerance toward mori’ rights, membership evangelil nomatns has been found to be lked to tolerance of homosexuals the Uned Stat (Jelen, 1982).

Fally, we take to acunt a number of variabl measurg basic socenomic and mographic characteristics that are thought to play a role shapg public opn toward homosexualy. As found prr rearch, we also expect men to be more cled to disapprove of homosexualy than women (Herek 2002; Ke 1984; Ke and Whley 1996), and people wh higher to be more tolerant than people wh lower (Hodgs Persell, Green, and Gurevch 2001). At the dividual-level of analysis, our statistil analysis dit that strong relig valu and more nservative iologi have a signifint negative impact on dividual support for homosexuals havg the right to marry.

PATO. GAY DICTNARY (LAT AMERI).

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Consequently, is not easy for scholars, and much ls for the sual observer, to make sense of the patchwork of gay marriage laws emergg om Lat Ameri recent years.

In this first book by a sgle thor on the polics of gay marriage Lat Ameri, Jordi Díez, a 2014 DRCLAS Peggy Rockefeller Visg Scholar, offers his take on why gay marriage has met divergent receptns across the regn. In Mexi, some stat and the Feral District of Mexi Cy have moved forward wh gay marriage laws, wh the blsgs om the urts, while other stat have moved the oppose directn by banng gay marriage.