Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers.
Contents:
- TEXAS RANKS AMONG THE WORST U.S. STAT FOR ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT
- NTH CIRCU REVIV ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT SE AGAST UNIVERSY OF ARIZONA
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- HIGH SCHOOL STUNT TAK ON ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT—AND WS
- DOG THE MATH: WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY ABOUT HARASSMENT OF GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR STUNTS*
TEXAS RANKS AMONG THE WORST U.S. STAT FOR ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * anti gay harassment *
Jordan / Chron staffTexas is now nsired of the worst stat the untry when to anti-gay hate crim, acrdg to a study released late last month by the Anti-Defamatn League (ADL) and queer advocy group teractive study found 356 cints of anti-LGBTQ+ vlence and extremism the Uned Stat between June 2022 and April 2023, and termed that Texas ranked third worst the untry wh 30 cints tallied.
Other cints targeted schools and tors, health re workers, and elected adlit cint among those reported was a shootg at a Colorado Sprgs gay bar November 2022 that end wh five people killed and 25 more jured. Harassment, vandalism or asslt the Uned Stat om June 2022 through April 2023, acrdg to a new report, reflectg a climate which bias agast gay and pecially transgenr people has bee cints, which were reported 46 stat and the District of Columbia, clud onle harassment, gathergs of armed protters outsi drag shows, and bomb threats agast hospals that provi genr transn re.
“That revoltg anti-gay ment you saw on a neighbor’s social media page, that shockg disrmatn about trans youth you heard at a school board meetg, and that attack by extremists at your lol Drag Story Hour — the are not isolated events. Policians and activists also now regularly and baselsly acce transgenr people of pedophilia and “groomg, ” rurrectg a mpaign that was ed agast gay people for s. It means that the school district will not allow anyone the school muny to be treated differently or to be harassed bee they are gay, lbian, or bisexual, or bee other people thk they are.
NTH CIRCU REVIV ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT SE AGAST UNIVERSY OF ARIZONA
The Massachetts Department of Edutn found that 23% of gay and lbian stunts reported asslts that required medil attentn, pared wh 3% of their peers, and 22% had skipped school the precedg year bee they felt unsafe, pared to 4% of other stunts. While stunts and teachers have the right as dividuals to believe that the Bible nmns (or do not nmn) lbian, gay and bisexual stunts, schools have a duty to ensure that every stunt is safe and weled.
Instead, havg posive role mols, both gay and straight, shows stunts that sexual orientatn is jt one of many different aspects of a person’s inty. What we do know that is that rerd homophobic and transphobic hate crim have jumped every year sce 2015, and yet wh an timated four five still gog unreported, the already grisly figur only ht at a far bleaker cints vary nature and severy: om abe hurled at someone intified as LGBTQ bee of their appearance, or mannerisms, or a fleetg or profound show of affectn towards a partner; to gay men beg beaten and robbed, as happened a spected homophobic attack on the streets of Edburgh last month, or a trans man savagely attacked Bournemouth earlier this year.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
A whe, middle-class, gay, cis man – that is, someone generally at one wh their genr assigned at birth – an urban area is likely to suffer far ls meangful opprsn than other groups. Beyond the fear of holdg hands wh their partner public, their ma grievanc tend to centre on the psychologil srs left by the often suffotgly homophobic environment of their school n lead to lastg trma, which largely explas the higher rat of mental distrs and abive relatnships wh alhol and dgs among LGBTQ people.
The most damaged are equently those whose fathers and mothers vlated the most sacred prciple of parenthood – unndnal love – ference to their own bigotry, often implantg a tickg time bomb their children that may tonate later life, be the form of emotnal breakdown or dg a young gay black man, homophobia may lli wh creased risk of police harassment and racist behavur om other LGBTQ people: victims n be perpetrators, too, sometim believg their own mistreatment mak impossible to opprs as Shon Faye’s brilliant new book The Transgenr Issue unrl, is trans people – the T the LGBTQ – now sufferg the most severe onslght. Today’s relentls mpaign agast trans people seems a near-rbon py of the prevly wispread monsterg of gay and bisexual people, wh all the same trop repeated: that they are would-be sexual predators, that they seek to brawash and rec children, that blogy is sty, that this is a whimsil liftyle choice, that they are fed by mental illns or a creepy fetish that impos an tolerable burn on the “normal” the 1980s and 1990s, many supposed liberals participated the anti-gay offensive, lamentg that the se for gay rights was beg unrmed by “ant homosexuals” makg unreasonable mands on the rt of society, such as askg newspapers not to ll them “poofters”. Supporters of the LGB Alliance – many of whom are straight – promptly took to Twter to nounce this cint as homophobia and even gay-bashg by the queer protters – some of whom will evably have suffered actual hate crim.
HIGH SCHOOL STUNT TAK ON ANTI-GAY HARASSMENT—AND WS
The man beme somethg of a e célèbre, an cint that has been marshalled to support the creasgly mon claim that the trans rights movement is homophobic; a “woke homophobia” as a GB News prenter put , renrg LGBTQ people the real homophobic as reported hate crim surge, Stonewall – by far the largt LGBTQ civil rights anisatn – fds self targeted by a McCarthye mpaign agast s fence of trans rights. The biggt killer of men unr 45 is suici: eeg them om rigid genr norms, which teach them to believe that openg up about their problems is unmanly or “gay”, will make them more likely to seek support.
A year later, he sued the universy along wh the Arizona Board of Regents and multiple cross-untry ach and athlet, assertg Tle IX harassment and allegg that the universy revoked his scholarship retaliatn for his plats of “sexual and homophobic bullyg” om his teammat. Grabowski claims his treatment and later removal om the team nstuted sexual harassment and retaliatn bee his teammat perceived him to be gay. Chan School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundatn and Natnal Public survey, a natnally reprentative sample of 489 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer adults, found that more than half of them experienced slurs (57 percent) or offensive ments (53 percent).
DOG THE MATH: WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY ABOUT HARASSMENT OF GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR STUNTS*
“Even as we see advanc like gay marriage or pollg that says people are supportive of LGBTQ issu or know a gay person, average muny members are sayg that don’t mean discrimatn has gone away.