Rompe Armarios: Barcelona joins the world acts to reject Russian LGBTphobia laws

Barcelona joins the world acts to reject Russian LGBTphobia laws

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Barcelona joins the world acts to reject Russian LGBTphobia laws

LGBT groups in major cities worldwide, convene for this coming Tuesday September 3rd, to the LGBTphobia demonstrations and rallies to reject laws passed by the Russian government. Therefore the LGTBcat Platform calls on citizens to join them in these acts of protest and calls for a rally in the Plaça Sant Jaume of Barcelona at 07.00 hours. "It is essential to give a forceful international response to prevent the escalation of violence that is generating the policy of the Russian government".

The LGTBcat Platform, which includes more than twenty Catalan organizations for the defense of LGBT rights, requires from both, the Catalonian and Spanish Governments a robust response to the law against homosexual propaganda and attacks people LGBT in Russia.

We denounce the law against homosexual propaganda or government threats LGBT detention because of the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Russia ", have expressed LGTBcat spokesman, Eugeni Rodriguez," are an intolerable discrimination and escalation of violence towards people who want to live our sexuality in equal rights with the rest of the population. "

From the LGTBcat Platform also want to stress the fact that "violence and discrimination against sexual minorities", as expressed by Joaquim Arugula: "as a brake on HIV prevention, because hinders access to HIV testing and the health system for fear of the consequences of revealing sexual orientation." In this regard recalls that according to the latest UNAIDS global report the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only world where rates of HIV infection continue to rise.

Moreover, he says Katy Pallars, "is creepy coolness see how talk of a new law to take the children of LGBT families from the family, not understand institutional silence, before as homophobic attitudes."

Therefore, once again insists on the urgent need to regulate, with the example of the passage through Parliament of Catalonia of the first law against LGTBphobia by a European Directive to curb violence and discrimination against people the LGBT community.
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