Activists nmn vlence agast LGBTQ muny St. Vcent, where gay sex is illegal | News Channel 3-12

Contents:

• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY RETIREMENT COMMUNI IN CALIFORNIA
• GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Our state has the largt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr populatn—2. Slightly over one third (36%) scribe themselv as gay or lbian, and 15% as transgenr. Far more men intify as gay (722, 000) than women as lbian (257, 000).

Among LGBT young adults, the vast majory (68%) scribe themselv as bisexual, 27% gay or lbian, and 14% as transgenr; 5% intify as transgenr but not as lbian, gay, or bisexual. In ntrast, olr LGBT adults California are more likely to intify as gay or lbian (49%) then eher bisexual (31%) or transgenr.

Wh the LGBT populatn, gay, lbian, and bisexual adults follow this pattern. Wh a rapidly changg landspe wh rpect to LGBT equaly acrossthe Uned Stat, regnal differenc persist the social acceptance oflbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The anizatn said March that no longer wanted policians and polil lears to downtown Charlottetown para to celebrate gay muny set for July 29The streets of downtown Charlottetown were full of supporters hoistg and wearg rabow lours durg P.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Long a popular retirement harbor for gay men, Palm Sprgs will soon wele what’s perhaps the ultimate queer goln-age ticket: a luxury ndomium muny signed for active LGBTQ to break ground January, the $60-ln $70-ln ameny-rich Livg Out plex is the visn of longtime veloper partners Pl Alanis and Loren Ostrow of Los Angel-based KOAR Internatnal.

Although that statement might veer to hyperbole, Roberts explaed that Livg Out’s sg is optimal — amid the cy’s boomg gay bar and nightclub scene known for uproar drag shows, largely favored by an agg Palm Sprgs mographic that grew up socializg at bars, not on other ci have seen a cle, Palm Sprgs gay bars are “creasg number and they’re packed, ” Roberts said.

Ined, Livg Out is loted a cy that’s “the top LGBT-iendly place for gay senr travel and retirement, ” acrdg to a 2019 rankg piled by AARP Travel Center and Expedia.

GAY RETIREMENT COMMUNI IN CALIFORNIA

Ostrow has also spent ne years on the Natnal Gay & Lbian Task Force endurg associatns wh the LGBT Center, the world’s largt such anizatn, lend the project ser cred, they gay retirement plex are havens for a populatn that n be shunned, disrpected and abed when livg nventnal facili. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St.

“People feel embolned to discrimate or be vlent.”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.

GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry.”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

Vcent Prime Mister Ralph Gonsalv was not returned.Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

Stonewall is so synonymo wh gay pri that obscur the fact that the movement for gay rights the Uned Stat was born Los Angel. Is home to the untry’s first PRIDE anizatn (Personal Rights through Defense and Edutn, 1966), first gay para (by the ad hoc Los Angel Commtee to Fight Excln of Homosexuals om the Armed Forc), the earlit known lbian publitn (Vice Versa, 1947), the first documented Supreme Court lg favor of gay rights (One Inc v. San Francis has many reasons to be proud of playg an sential role the gay rights movement.