Wh Brazil's Bolsonaro attackg the Supreme Court, are gay rights at risk? | Rters

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• WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?
• THREE MEN ARRTED DURG GAY SNA RAID VENEZUELA RELEASED OM JAIL
• GAY RIGHTS

WH BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO ATTACKG THE SUPREME COURT, ARE GAY RIGHTS AT RISK?

Carlos Renan dos Santos Evaldt, a banker and print of a gay sports club Porto Alegre, was spurred to offer jujsu class not jt to ensure personal safety, but “rights achieved through hard work and at the st of many liv and years.

THREE MEN ARRTED DURG GAY SNA RAID VENEZUELA RELEASED OM JAIL

"Homophobic crim are as alarmg as physil vlence, " Supreme Court Vice-Print Luiz Fux said on his vote, cg "epimic levels of homophobic vlence" almost 20 years there have been efforts to make homophobia a crime Brazil, but legislatn on the matter has faced ristance among nservative and relig groups Congrs, the BBC's Julia Carneiro R cisn at the Supreme Court means that offenc are to be punished unr the untry's racism law until Congrs approv specific legislatn to protect LGBT people, our rrponnt remag judg will vote a ssn schled for 5 ptn, Why are same-sex upl Brazil shg to get married?

Brazil has the world's biggt Catholic populatn but also a growg number of young, ted urban liberals who are eager to fight for gay and trans untry legalised same-sex marriage 2013 and LGBT upl have also been given the right to year, 420 LGBT people were killed across Brazil, one of the most vlent untri the world, acrdg to Gpo Gay da activists have raised ncerns over the possibily of a rise crim agast gays and transgenr people wh the electn of Mr Bolsonaro, a eply divisive figure who has also ma racist and misogynist prev terviews, he has said he would rather have a ad son than a homosexual son. Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg.

Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT 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 Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy.

GAY RIGHTS

In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him, and threatened to out him to his father. Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay.

”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu.

In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J. Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante.