# I pit the alarming surge in global homophobia **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 20, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-alarming-surge-in-global-homophobia/799349 "2017-10-20T06:02:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Squallous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Squallous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squallous)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-alarming-surge-in-global-homophobia/799349/41 "2017-11-08T16:26:50Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Jamaica OK, one. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-alarming-surge-in-global-homophobia/799349/42 "2017-11-08T21:20:35Z")
> [@Squallous](#): > > OK, one. Any others? Sure, if your response means that you’re **not** only counting widespread, pervasive torturous acts of violence against homosexuals when committed by law enforcement officials. For example, murders of LGBQT people are very numerous in Honduras (nearly evenly split between Catholic and Protestant Christian), and much less likely to be punished than other murders. Homophobic violent attacks and murders are also frequent in Uganda (84% Christian and 14% Muslim). Not just Honduras but mostly-Christian Latin America as a whole, particularly Nicaragua, Guatemala and Paraguay, is also [prone to homophobic violence](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/americas/lgbt-rights-in-the-americas/index.html): > [@](#): > > 600 people died across Latin America from anti-LGBT violence between January 2013 and March 2014, according to a 2015 report by the IACHR. > > The IACHR report, and other reports from the region, show that violence against LGBT individuals is becoming more extreme. They are often stoned, tortured and raped before they are killed, and crimes often go unpunished. Many times, crimes against the LGBT population go underreported because of fear of reprisals and skepticism of the justice system. > > 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. In short, there isn’t a simple correlation between gay-rights laws and actual lack of violence against gays. The absence of both (as in the mostly-Muslim-majority countries named by the OP) is definitely the worst situation for gay human rights, but that doesn’t mean that other countries don’t also have severe problems with anti-gay violence. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-alarming-surge-in-global-homophobia/799349/43 "2017-11-09T03:18:46Z")
Some of it, like domestic violence, is a matter of visibility. Spain has SSM. It also has homophobic attacks reported on national TV. 40 years ago we didn’t have either: oh, there were homophobic attacks, homosexual behavior was in fact banned… you think the telly told us every time the police heard someone had beat up some pansy, when so much of the time they were the ones leading the beating? They didn’t report every single person beaten up or killed by a current or ex SO, either: “I killed her because she was mine” was considered a prefectly valid justification. Is it good that those attacks take place? No. But reporting that they’re happening is better than considering them life as usual. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-alarming-surge-in-global-homophobia/799349.md?page=2)