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Gays in Latin America

Read Javier Corrales’ article “Gays in Latin America: is the closet half empty?”, published in the magazine Foreign Policy, in February 2009. In the article, Corrales signalizes that “the region is becoming more gay-friendly”.  

Interviews

Colonial legacy

Although 66 States members of the UN condemn violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, lots of countries still have laws against consensual sex between adults of the same sex. “These laws were left behind by colonial rulers”, researcher Rhoda Redock points out.

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“There is much to be undone”

Anthropologist Richard Parker (Columbia University) analyses Barack Obama’s victory, the long period of moral conservatism and religious extremism of George W. Bush’s administration and the moral panic around issues such as abortion and gay marriage.

Interviews

Silent homophobia

Read psychologist James T. Sears’ interview about LGBT youth and Education and download his latest lecture “Homophobic bullying in schools”. Sears is author of “Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies that Work”, among other titles.

Interviews

Governments’ obligation

Leading scholar in the area of sexual orientation, attorney Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, King’s College London, believes that many things have changed for better since the first legal recognition of same sex couples, in 1979.