LGBTQ means: lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers are now on the news agenda again not because of a massive protest march to make equal rights for all but because of what has happened in Barbados, a country where the highest court annuls the Laws criminalizing gays. It is considered an advance in the direction of including them and not penalizing them.
This is the third Nation in the Caribbean region to do so this year at a crucial time for those who have long fought against such harsh laws that established up to life imprisonment for homosexuals convicted of having sexual relations with each other. While the laws were rarely invoked, they indicated that LGBTQ+ people are criminal citizens.
Various churches and Christian organizations throughout the Caribbean have opposed the repeal of such laws with the support of some political leaders who invoke God in their arguments. His efforts in the case of Barbados have been in vain.
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This is how a new country is added that has come to eliminate the laws, which represents an achievement for this human group that has the freedom to express themselves and live without legal restrictions. In Paraguay there are no regulations that directly and fairly prohibit the practice or efforts to modify a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Although the norms that did exist in Caribbean countries do not exist, there are social ways of thinking that reject or discriminate against these people who are comfortable with other human beings of the same sex or with their changed sex.
It is not only a responsibility of the Paraguayan justice but also of the mentality of the inhabitant who is not comfortable with homosexuals or transgenders, either because of how they look, express themselves or promote the adopted lifestyle.
There are only six countries left in the Americas with similar laws, including Guyana, Grenada, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica, where members of the LGBTQ+ community demand inclusion, respect, and integration into normal activities for all.
The world has unfortunate stories of discrimination and others of pleasant achievements such as what happened in Barbados. We are evolving in the admission of the different.
