BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws in several...
FILE - In this July 14, 2010 file photo, demonstrators wave a gay pride flag outside Congress in support of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires. Argentina was the first country in Latin America to approve gay unions and in 2019 has some of the most progressive LGBT policies in the world.
Experts say Latin America needs to address long-standing cultural biases, racial and income inequality in order to make the region safer for LGBT people. Here’s a look at how far Latin America has advanced in protecting gay and transgender rights and what gaps in equality remain.Decades ago, several Latin American governments were ruled by iron-fisted governments that considered homosexuality a scourge to the silenced.
Today most Latin American nations no longer consider homosexuality a crime, but in the Caribbean that is not the case. In former British colonies like Jamaica, a law declaring the “abominable crime of buggery” punishable with up to 10 years in jail remains on the books. He points to both a new surge in activism that followed the end of Latin America’s military dictatorships and the fading sway of Catholicism.
“Unquestionably, Latin America is the champion of LGBT rights in the Global South,” Encarnacion said, referring to low and middle income nations.In a few places, the wave of activism is going beyond marriage to grant rights like allowing more expansive definitions of gender identity and permitting same-sex couples to expand their families by subsidizing in vitro fertilization.
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