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AP \u2014 Advocacy group Human Rights Watch released an in-depth report Thursday that details the abuse and discrimination the LGBTQ community says it faces in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where gay sex is still criminalized.<\/p>

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From homelessness to ongoing physical and verbal abuse, the gay community in the small nation of some 100,000 people says it is under constant threat.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery LGBT person interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the country immediately or had envisioned their future abroad,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>

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In St. Vincent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, while \u201cgross indecency\u201d with another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, according to colonial-era laws that are common in the socially conservative Caribbean region.<\/p>

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While rarely invoked, the rights group and a local activist said the laws help legitimize hostility and abuse against gay people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese laws still have an impact,\u201d said Jeshua Bardoo, an international human rights lawyer from St. Vincent. \u201cPeople feel emboldened to discriminate or be violent.\u201d<\/p>

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In July 2019, two gay men from St. Vincent who are living abroad filed a case to challenge local laws criminalizing gay sex that activists say should be struck down.<\/p>\n

The hearings just ended, and a local judge is expected to issue a ruling in upcoming months, said Cristian Gonzalez Cabrera, a researcher with Human Rights Watch.<\/p>

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Gonzalez said he wrote the report on St. Vincent and the Grenadines given the high levels of abuse and discrimination against LGBTQ people there.<\/p>

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\u201cThe challenges are significant,\u201d he said. \u201cThe (LGTBQ) community in the country is very, very marginalized and vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 20 members of the island\u2019s LGBTQ community who shared their stories but were not identified to protect them, noting that local police are often openly discriminatory toward gay people who seek help.<\/p>\n

A 58-year-old bisexual man recalled how someone hit him in the head with a bottle in an attack that cracked his skull and put him in a coma.<\/p>\n

The attack \u201ccaused permanent damage to his speech, vision, motor functions, memory and balance,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n

Those interviewed also reported bullying at school, prompting several of them to drop out after receiving no support from teachers or administration officials.<\/p>\n

One gay man recalled how his classmates beat him and broke his arm.<\/p>\n

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Several reported that their families are homophobic and physically and verbally abused them, causing them to become homeless and prompting some to consider suicide.<\/p>\n

Many also struggle to find jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimination, including a 19-year-old gay man who said he has resorted to begging: \u201cSometimes I am so hungry.<\/p>\n

It is hard for me as a gay in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six English-speaking nations in the Caribbean still criminalize gay sex, including Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada and St. Lucia.<\/p>\n

Four others have repealed such laws; Trinidad and Tobago did so in 2018, followed by Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts and Nevis last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Vincent and the Grenadines should really take note of what\u2019s happening in the region and not be the last country to decriminalize,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

A message left with the office of St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves was not returned.<\/p>\n

Gonsalves previously noted there\u2019s been a history of discrimination against gay people. In 2018, he condemned attacks on two men who apparently were dressed as women.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust let them be,\u201d he was quoted as saying by local media at the time. \u201cWhy are you beating them? You have no right to do it. That kind of irrational homophobia is entirely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez with Human Rights Watch noted that in 2019, the government held a workshop for public employees on the importance of respecting gay rights, a rare move for a conservative Caribbean nation.<\/p>\n

That same year, a group of churches held an anti-LGBTQ demonstration in the island\u2019s capital of Kingstown.<\/p>\n

Despite the hostility and ongoing attacks, Bardoo, the attorney who founded an organization called Equal Rights, Access and Opportunities SVG Inc., held a pride event last month in public \u2014 a first for the island of St. Vincent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important to build more visibility. People need to see real Vincentians who are queer or who support these issues,\u201d he said, adding that locals often think it\u2019s foreign governments imposing an agenda.<\/p>\n

Bardoo said he had been physically and verbally abused and would like to see what he called \u201cdraconian laws\u201d erased from the books.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t feel like an evil person in your own country,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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