The ernments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have failed to effectively addrs vlence and entrenched discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, leadg many to seek asylum the Uned Stat, Human Rights Watch said a report released today.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS HONDURAS
- THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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(Washgton, DC) – The ernments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have failed to effectively addrs vlence and entrenched discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, leadg many to seek asylum the Uned Stat, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. Carlos G., a gay refugee who traveled to the Uned Stat om Honduras 2018, said that gang members there shot him, tellg him: “Today you’re gog to die, faggot.
” He was aaid to report the cint to the police, who had prevly harassed him for beg gay and mand sexual favors. ” She fled to the Uned Stat 2019, after gang members asslted her, abducted her gay iend, and warned her that she would be next. I traveled to Honduras last week to document vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
The stori echoed through the streets of the pal Tegucigalpa last Friday when some 350 Hondurans marched towards the cy’s ma square to celebrate the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
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I traveled to Honduras last week to document vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Vlence abounds, acrdg to Honduran LGBT activists, but there are also plenty of stori of urage, pri, and ristance. * honduras gay rights *
The LGBT Pri March Honduras’s San Pedro Sula, which drew 450 people, was the upliftg culmatn of a week of Pri activi that also clud more sober reflectns, such as a ndlelight vigil for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people killed Honduras.
” Dpe the activists’ urage and pri, which I also observed at Tegucigalpa’s march on the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia May, vlence agast LGBT people do make Honduras unlivable for many. Acrdg to Cattrachas, 2018, 25 LGBT people were killed: 16 gay men, 5 trans people, and 4 lbian women.
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And the suatn appears to be worseng: the number of killgs tallied between January and Augt of 2019 – 13 gay men, 7 trans people, and 6 lbian women – already outpac the entire year of 2018. “By seekg to permanently and prehensively block any possibily of accsg marriage for same-sex upl, the Honduran Congrs is entrenchg state-sponsored homophobia, ” said Cristian González Cabrera, Ameris lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. 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.
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. ”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.
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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. 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.
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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.
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“This legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia. “First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said.
“Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law.