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.
NO SEX DURG LOCKDOWN? GAY MEN LONDON SAY OTHERWISE
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.
“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. Alyssa McGill me of age the mid-1990s, when former Print Clton tablished homophobic doctr like Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.