Lat Ameri has a long history of enactg equy for gay and trans people, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
Contents:
- THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
- A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
Brazilians learned they have a gay ernor; LGBTQ acceptance is expandg some untri; and Chile adopted full marriage equaly. * homosexuality in latin america *
In Homosexualy Jtifitn and Social Distance: A Cross-Cultural Approach om Lat Ameri Usg World Valu Survey Data, a recent chapter published the book Latx Queer Psychology, we offer some sights on change tolerance towards homosexualy Lat Amerin untri and the challeng that the regn fac. In spe of new trends gog beyond gay and lbian rights and focg on securg better (legal and social) ndns for trans and queer muni, some sub-sectns of the general populatn are yet to embrace homosexualy as a legimate and healthy exprsn of sexual diversy.
Moreover, every effort to improve the legal and social standg of gay and lbian people the regn has been met by reactnary movements and anti-genr polici ristg advanc sexual and LGBTQ+ rights.
The suatn is particularly worryg for the remag untri sce the levels of jtifitn are notably low, particularly Pe, which, acrdg to our mols, mak up the lowt homogeneo subset. A more nuanced look at the distributn of attus toward LGBT people, g data om WVS wave 7 (2017-2020) and the same homosexualy jtifitn measure, supports the above-mentned pattern. G., Germany, Atralia, and New Zealand), where most rponnts place themselv on the upper end of the “tolerance” sle, Lat Amerin societi seem far om a posive or affirmative sentiment towards homosexualy.
A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
On the lower end, Guatemala, Niragua, Bolivia, and Pe display attus parable to untri such as Ethpia, Lebanon, and Cha, which are characterised by great hostily toward homosexualy and LGBT people. On the other hand, Venezuela tops the list when to the lack of rights for same-sex upl or members of the LGBT group, says Omar Enrnacn, a polil scientist at New York’s Bard College and thor of Out the Periphery: Lat Ameri’s Gay Rights Revolutn. A 2015 report prepared by Venezuelan LGBT associatns for the Uned Natns said members of the muny “nstantly live suatns of discrimatn, ” and that lack of protectn for LGBT cizens “mak them fensels cizens an atmosphere of alarmg growth of homophobia and transphobia.
“If you look at relign as a variable, what you fd is that the more Catholic the untry, the more likely they are to be acceptg of homosexualy and vice versa, ” Enrnacn says. Crissthian Manuel Olivera Fuent, who works for MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, says some evangelil prits Pe have e out strongly the past few months preachg that homosexualy is a disease that n be cured. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.