Human Rights Watch: Anti-gay laws promote vlence, discrimatn St. Vcent

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• ORD TO ANYWHERESTOP WONRG, START WANRG.INFO: A GAY GUY'S GUI TO GEETOWN, GUYANA
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• WHAT IS GAY? - SGLE
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

ORD TO ANYWHERESTOP WONRG, START WANRG.INFO: A GAY GUY'S GUI TO GEETOWN, GUYANA

The most recent pollg of the Guyane public by the Caribbean Development Rearch Servic (CADRES) 2013 revealed that 24% of people rpond that they "hate" homosexuals, while 38% and 25% rpond as "tolerant" or "acceptg" rpectively. Gay app activy appears to be tratg for ers but not dangero like n be untri like Rsia or Egypt where there's often reports of police stg operatns or dividual lookg to perpetrate hate crim g them to lote victims.

I didn't want to make assumptns about anyone nor did I want to make anyone story short is that Guyana, as you might expect, is not a gay-iendly travel statn. As a gay traveler I have ma the choice to often explore statns wh unwelg and even dangero climat for LGBT dividuals, though I realize this isn't for everyone.

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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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. 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. The rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) persons are human rights. A study of the perceptns and attus towards lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) persons Guy-ana, suggts that a majory of Guyana eher accept or tolerate LGBTQ fdgs, acrdg to the Society Agast Sexual Orientatn Discri-matn (SASOD), which missned the study, is a tremendo improvement sce the last study was done and shows that Guyane are ready for the legislative and policy chang to better protect LGBTQ 2013 study was nducted by Caribbean Development Rearch Servic (CADRES) and this one was executed by RMK Consultg SimpsonRMK Director Dr Mark Kirton, who prented an overview of the methodology of the study at s lnch at Herdmanston Lodge yterday, said that some 1, 070 persons were terviewed.

WHAT IS GAY? - SGLE

Acrdg to the new rmatn, rponnts were asked to tail their attu towards homosexuals and some 34. The study found that persons who personally know LGBTQ persons are more than likely to have a posive attu towards subjects were asked ‘Should the Guyane Govern-ment legally protect the rights of persons who are gay, bisexual and transgenr?

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir 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.

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

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.