Covid-19 lockdowns led to an crease anti-LGBT vlence wh fai France 2020, acrdg to associatns supportg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. The groups say they…
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- SEX THE TIME OF COVID-19: RULTS OF AN ONLE SURVEY OF GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN’S EXPERIENCE OF SEX AND HIV PREVENTN DURG THE US COVID-19 EPIMIC
- NO SEX DURG LOCKDOWN? GAY MEN LONDON SAY OTHERWISE
SEX THE TIME OF COVID-19: RULTS OF AN ONLE SURVEY OF GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN’S EXPERIENCE OF SEX AND HIV PREVENTN DURG THE US COVID-19 EPIMIC
Gay men are still hookg up, but there’s a greater emphasis on love and safety than pre-panmic days. * gay lockdown *
There will be no para Bra’s unofficial gay pal, Brighton, or New York.
Life was already impossibly hard for LGBTQ+ people the east Ain untry, where gay sex is illegal and punishable by life imprisonment. Last month, 44 people, mostly gay men, were arrted at an LGBTQ+ shelter on the outskirts of Kampala and charged wh engagg activi likely to spread an fect disease.
NO SEX DURG LOCKDOWN? GAY MEN LONDON SAY OTHERWISE
“It’s so exhstg, ” says Mugisha, a veteran of the stggle for gay rights Uganda.
“That is what I’m dreamg of, ” he says, speakg via Zoom om his home of Sonzal Welfare Tst, a gay and transgenr rights NGO, Aijaz works wh some of the most margalised people this Mlim-majory regn of India.
“They [village officials] are skippg the ho of lbians and gays livg together bee they are not nsired a hoehold, ” he says – even upl who have adopted panmic has also forced LGBTQ+ people back to fay hom marred by homophobia and stigma. “We’ve seen a precipo drop mental health, ” says Stern, rellg one stance of a young man St Lucia who had spoken to a lol NGO while livg wh his homophobic fay. Mugisha was one of about 20 people arrted 2016 when police broke up a gay Pri event.