Amerins Still Greatly Overtimate U.S. Gay Populatn

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At 26 years old, the Pevian gay man was arrted by police officers while headg home shortly after midnight. Sebastián Urtia Lutz, a gay man, was attacked 2012 by a group of men while leavg a party a gay neighborhood Santiago. On the other hand, Venezuela tops the list when to the lack of rights for same-sex upl or members of the LGBT group, says Omar Enrnacn, a polil scientist at New York’s Bard College and thor of Out the Periphery: Lat Ameri’s Gay Rights Revolutn.

The suatn “dismiss this ia that the farther to the left you are the more likely you are to be pro-gay, ” Enrnacn says. A 2015 report prepared by Venezuelan LGBT associatns for the Uned Natns said members of the muny “nstantly live suatns of discrimatn, ” and that lack of protectn for LGBT cizens “mak them fensels cizens an atmosphere of alarmg growth of homophobia and transphobia.

“If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says. “The more Prottant they are, the ls likely they are (to be) acceptg, and the ls likely they are to have an active gay rights legislatn.

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U.S. adults timate that nearly one four Amerins (23.6%) are gay or lbian. Gallup has prevly found that Amerins have greatly overtimated the U.S. gay populatn. * gay americano *

The Catholic and evangelil church have siar views on homosexualy, although there are notable differenc. While both oppose homosexualy, “the Catholic clergy tends to be ls opposed to anti-discrimatn statut than the evangelil clergy, ” explas Corral. “Sometim, the Catholic clergy has e out favor of civil unns while still opposg gay marriage.

Crissthian Manuel Olivera Fuent, who works for MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, says some evangelil prits Pe have e out strongly the past few months preachg that homosexualy is a disease that n be cured. --Wrer Magaze About the Author Poet and activist, Emanuel Xavier was born Brooklyn, New York, and beme volved the ball scene as a homels gay teen.

Xavier has received an Internatnal Lato Book Award, Lambda Lerary Award nomatns and Amerin Library Associatn Over the Rabow Books selectns for his llectns which clu: Pier Queen, Amerino, If J Were Gay, Nefar, Radiance and Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier. He is the recipient of a Gay Cy Impact Award and The Marsha A.