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.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- ATRALIA’S LGBT-ONLY ISLANDPARADISE FOUNDMARRIAGE EQUALY DISCRIMATN LED A GROUP OF ATRALIAN ACTIVISTS TO SET THEIR RABOW FLAG ON CATO ISLAND. THIS ‘HOMELAND’ EVEN HAS A GLORIA GAYNOR ANTHEM.NA STROCHLICUPDATED OCT. 11, 2019 3:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 18, 2015 6:45AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTWHEN ATRALIA REFED TO ALLOW S GAY CIZENS EQUAL RIGHTS TO MARRIAGE, A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS SERTED THE UNTRY, SAILED 200 NTIL TO AN ISLAND OFF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND HOISTED A RABOW FLAG THE HIGHT SPOT THEY ULD FD.THEY CLARED THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS.THE IMPET ME 2004 DURG THE BRISBANE GAY PRI FTIVAL, WHEN A LLECTIVE OF IENDS CID THAT WHOUT BEG GRANTED LEGAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS THEY WOULD LEAVE AND START THEIR OWN MORE CLIVE UNTRY.NA STROCHLIC
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
”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. ”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.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
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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. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.
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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. Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said. Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law.
Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said.
ATRALIA’S LGBT-ONLY ISLANDPARADISE FOUNDMARRIAGE EQUALY DISCRIMATN LED A GROUP OF ATRALIAN ACTIVISTS TO SET THEIR RABOW FLAG ON CATO ISLAND. THIS ‘HOMELAND’ EVEN HAS A GLORIA GAYNOR ANTHEM.NA STROCHLICUPDATED OCT. 11, 2019 3:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 18, 2015 6:45AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTWHEN ATRALIA REFED TO ALLOW S GAY CIZENS EQUAL RIGHTS TO MARRIAGE, A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS SERTED THE UNTRY, SAILED 200 NTIL TO AN ISLAND OFF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND HOISTED A RABOW FLAG THE HIGHT SPOT THEY ULD FD.THEY CLARED THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS.THE IMPET ME 2004 DURG THE BRISBANE GAY PRI FTIVAL, WHEN A LLECTIVE OF IENDS CID THAT WHOUT BEG GRANTED LEGAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS THEY WOULD LEAVE AND START THEIR OWN MORE CLIVE UNTRY.NA STROCHLIC
In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims. Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment.
Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace.
"The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.