Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Being gay in Latin America: Legal but deadly

Being gay in Latin America: Legal but deadly

On a February night in 2008, Luis Alberto Rojas Marin says, his life changed forever. At 26 years old, the Peruvian gay man was arrested by police officers while heading home shortly after midnight. Throughout the six hours he was in police custody, he says, he was stripped, raped with a baton and verbally abused by police officers before being let go. All of this, he says, because of his sexuality.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/americas/lgbt-rights-in-the-americas/index.html?source=Snapzu

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