Discrimination In Latin America Essay

Everyone deserves to have their human rights respected, no matter the gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. This law applies to everyone everywhere they go. But recently, in Latin America there’s been several issues with discrimination towards LGBT people. The discrimination seems to be culturally accepted therefore causing violence, hatred and overall fear to LGBT people in Latin America. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is what’s going to put the prejudice to rest.

Foremost, there are discriminatory laws against LGBT individuals happening in Antigua, Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines. These countries aren’t allowing LGBT people to have human

As stated by the report “The perplexing narrative about being gay in Latin America” on CNN.com; Marilia Brocchetto says “Latin America offers a contradictory narrative: The region has the highest rates of violence against the LGBT community, according to research done by Transgender Europe, a non-governmental organization, but it also has some of the most progressive laws for LGBT equality and protection.” Although Latin America has some of the most progressive laws for LGBT they still have countries that make LGBT people feel unsafe. For example, in Chile a man named Sebastian Urrutia Lutz was attacked by a group of men while leaving a party in a gay neighborhood in 2012. According to CNN he told them that no one was held accountable for the attack. Moreover, in Venezuela same-sex couples have no protection of rights under their law. Transgender and transsexual aren’t even allowed to change their ID, which is part of denying their identity. Religion plays a big role in Latin America, some religions seem to be friendlier to LGBT people and other religions aren’t at all. The report states that, “...LGBT people living in countries dominated by evangelical churches tend to be the ones that have the hardest time.” Although some religions aren’t very accepting of the LGBT community that doesn’t allow others to treat them with disrespect according to the Universal Declaration of Human