Anti-gay hate crim on the rise, FBI says, and they likely unrunt

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• THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS

THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS

PolicsCanada is now home to about one ln people who intify as members of the LGBTQ muny, wh people unr the age of 25 acuntg for a disproportnately large portn of the LGBTQ says s reportg on transgenr populatns will improveA rabow flag hangs Montreal's Gay Village. It is therefore unclear how the number of police-reported hate crim may be high number of hate crim targetg sexual orientatnAcrdg to the 2018 Survey of Safety Public and Private Spac, an timated 1 ln people Canada are sexual mori—that is, they reported their sexual orientatn as gay, lbian, bisexual or a sexual orientatn that is not heterosexual. Nearly 9  10 (88%) of the crim specifilly targeted the gay and lbian muny, while the remar prised cints targetg bisexual people (2%); people wh other sexual orientatns, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientatns (6%); and people whose sexual orientatn was unknown (4%) was the se prev years, vlent crim acunted for more than half (53%) of hate crim targetg sexual orientatn.

Straight Talk Black and gay people are more likely than others to bee victims of a hate crime numbers dite that cints agast people of black sk lour and sexual mori acunted for nearly a third of hate crim that year, overall police-reported hate crim creased seven percent om 2018, for a total of 1, 946. “This was the hight number of hate crim targetg sexual orientatn datg back to 2009, ” Statistics Canada feral agency noted that nearly ne 10 or 88 percent of the crim “specifilly targeted the gay and lbian muny” remar were cints agast bisexual people (two percent); people wh other sexual orientatns, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientatns (six percent); and people whose sexual orientatn was unknown (four percent).

4 the wake of the adly mass shootg at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando Sunday morng, several Canadian gay activists are speakg out about asslts on members of their MORE: Why LGBTQ pri and gay bars still matter“Even today 2016, we talk about the credible gas that we’ve ma Canada.

“In the rearch I’ve done, almost every homosexual or transgenr person has been lled nam, has been verbally harassed and asslted, ” said Gillis, an associate profsor at the Ontar Instute for Studi Edutn at the Universy of a actn of hate crim are reported, he said. In the ntext of police-reported hate crime data, is not possible to further disaggregate the tegory for Indigeno this release, data on police-reported hate crim targetg sexual orientatn are llected based on the followg tailed motivatn tegori: bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, and another sexual orientatn that is not heterosexual (for example, asexual or pansexual). Human Rights Watch has documented homophobic vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to bet a remendatn to strike down the buggery laws, but as of 2019, they rema place Antigua and Barbuda.

The crimal do not regnize homophobia as an aggravatg crimal circumstance, and a ernment bill on equaly do not clu sexual orientatn and genr inty as grounds for protectn om gay men fear for their physil secury the ary, and some seek exemptn om servg the army. Although no law has specifilly crimalized same-sex acts between adults over 21 year sce the repeal of the 1955 Brish-imposed Penal Co 1976, the thori have reportedly prosecuted acts such as anizg a “gay party” or cross-drsg unr vague penal provisns agast “cency” and “immoraly.

In May 2018, police charged lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activist Vika Biran for stagg sgle-person pickets near three ernmental buildgs to prott the Interr Mistry’s statement cryg the Brish embassy for flyg a rabow flag to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia. In May, the Senate passed Bill C-66, which expung the rerds of dividuals who were prosecuted bee of their sexualy when homosexualy was crimalized bill follows Prime Mister T’s 2017 apology the Hoe of Commons for the historic mistreatment of sexual mori by the Canadian ernment. Egypt ntu to subject people acced of homosexual nduct to forced anal examatns, which are cel and gradg and n rise to the level of March 2019, a transgenr woman and polil activist, Malak Al-Kashif, was arrted based on accatns of “misg social media” and held solary nfement a male prison.

Egypt censored gay-themed scen om the film Bohemian Rhapsody, starrg Egyptian-Amerin actor Rami October 2018, the UN special rapportr on the right to aquate hog reported that LGBT people were beg evicted, nied hog and harassed bee of their sexual orientatn and genr inty. Arbrary police raids on private LGBT gathergs, assisted by ant Islamists, have railed public health outreach efforts to vulnerable May 2019, a former police brigadier filed a lawsu agast the central Java provcial police, claimg he had been fired for beg gay. On September 14, 2017, Nasser Atabati, prosecutor of Arbil provce, told media that six people had been arrted Arbil for “promotg homosexualy” on the Telegram msagg March 2017, before the Commtee on the Rights of the Child, Iran nied allegatns that ercive treatment and electric shocks were beg ed agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.

In July 2019, the first openly gay male lawmaker Japan, Taiga Ishikawa, was elected to the parliament’s upper hoe on a platform llg for marriage do not prohib discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty, although the Tokyo Municipal Government (TMG) has had place sce 2016 a non-discrimatn law that requir the TMG and enurag private anizatns to addrs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The clu a 2015 High Court lg favor of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn a se volvg eedom of assembly and associatn, a 2018 Appeals Court lg prohibg forced anal examatns, and an October 2018 urt orr spendg a ban the Kenya Film Classifitn Board had slapped on Rafiki, a love story about two young women whose fathers are polil opponents. Sce then, the challeng facg LGBT people the untry have been further exacerbated by the lack of clary and divergent opns regardg the legaly of the moratorium on arrts and prosecutns for nsensual homosexual September 2013, the Malawi High Court issued a notice that would review the nvictn of three dividuals for “unnatural offens, ” based on the nstutnaly of this provisn.

” The backlash agast participants was vol and severe, wh some reportg harassment on social media, cludg threats of April 2019, activist Numan Afifi was summoned for police qutng regardg a speech he gave at Malaysia’s Universal Perdic Review about the suatn facg LGBT people the Augt 2019, Malaysian thori censored gay scen om the Elton John bpic, Rocketman, sparkg nmnatn by art transgenr women were killed between November 2018 and January 2019. Two years sce the crimalizatn of homosexualy Mozambique, and spe of a November 2017 urt cisn that clared unnstutnal a law wh vague “moraly” provisns that had been ed to jtify nyg registratn to LGBT groups, the ernment has still not registered the untry’s largt such group, Lambda. In Augt 2018, 57 people were arrted at a Lagos hotel based on rmatn provid by a vigilance group that the victims had gathered to perform gay iatn November 2018, an Abuja Feral High Court dismissed the Lbian Equaly and Empowerment Iniative’s lawsu challengg s non-registratn.