A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
- SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW & HOW DO IT AFFECT YOU?
- A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
- RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
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A judge also tossed a lawsu agast Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by crics, which prohibs “classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty” krgarten through eighth gra, “or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive.
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
The Brish die band say they've been banned om Kuala Lumpur after 'gay stage kiss'. Malaysian thori sist there will be no 'promise wh any party that challeng, beltl or vlat' s laws. * law on gay *
The sger add that the 1975 nsired droppg out of the show due to Malaysia’s anti-gay laws. The 1975 bassist Ross MacDonald then walked over to Healy and the two engaged a prolonged kiss on the mouth, prott to Malaysia’s anti-gay legislatn. Beg gay the UAE n land rints up to 15 years prison.
THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. * law on gay *
Ron DeSantis's sk, addg to a list of anti-gay polici on his rume as he prepar to n for Hoe also approved a bathroom bill that would require dividuals to e genr-signated rtroom facili based on the genr on their birth certifite stead of their genr inty.
The bills passed the same day that the state's board of tn approved a measure expandg the state's "don't say gay" law up until high school graduatn.
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SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW & HOW DO IT AFFECT YOU?
The gay/trans panic legal fense legimiz and exc vlent and lethal behavr agast members of the LGBTQ+ muny. The fense is fed by the LGBT Bar as “a legal strategy which asks a jury to fd that a victim’s sexual orientatn or genr inty is to blame for the fendant’s vlent reactn, cludg murr.” * law on gay *
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. In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims.
A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
You may be wonrg why the Sunshe State has e unr tense natnal scty over legislatn that crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law. * law on gay *
Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment. Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace. "The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch.
Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex. The Brish die band say they've been banned om Kuala Lumpur after 'gay stage kiss'.
Brish die rockers The 1975 have fallen foul of Malaysian thori by prottg agast the untry's strict anti-homosexual laws. Lead sger Matty Healy sparked fury wh the ernment by attackg the anti-gay legislatn and kissg a male bandmate durg their performance at the start of the Good Vib Ftival last night.
RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and agency charge of approvg performanc by foreign artists said was disappoted wh the band's nduct, llg "an sult and disrpectg the laws of the untry. " It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn't the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights.
In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports. The four-part te crime seri, now streamg, foc on four victims, gay men the 1990s, who were murred, dismembered, their remas found garbage bags along a New Jersey highway.