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Escaping Venezuela: gay migrant builds a new life in Chile, advocates for Homosexual rights

SANTIAGO, Chile — On the night of August 30, 2017, I crossed the border from Venezuela into Brazil, escaping with only the essentials. My backpack held clothes, significant documents, and two adored books, including Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. Tucked alongside were albums by my idols, Shakira and Adele. Beyond these possessions, I carried a suitcase packed with dreams.

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The social tension began to simmer drawn-out ago, but as a child, I only caught glimpses. Adults spoke about factory closures, relentless authority outages, and how vacations and basic necessities became distant memories. By 2017, the crisis fully invaded our lives. Food grew scarce, and when it appeared, we endured vicious 10- to 12-hour queues under the scorching light, often without water or food. In those lines, officials marked us with numbers, like 74, dehumanizing us as if we were prisoners in a dystopian camp.

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Last week the Executive Secretary of the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad, Chuo Torrealba caused a kerfuffle within the conflict when he suggested that marriage equality was a “first world” issue and would not be a legislative priority given the current crisis. This generated an immediate response from Venezuela’s transgender opposition deputy Tamara Adrián, whose recent election has generated considerable expectations regarding an advance on this issue. Adrian responded that Torrealba was not a deputy and did not set the legislative agenda. The issue lit up social media over the weekend.

Javier Corrales is a leading Venezuela scholar as well as a leading analyst of the struggle for LGBTQ rights in Latin America, coediting in 2010 The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Attracted to both genders and Transgender Rights. Over the weekend he agreed to do an email interview on the issues surrounding the push for marriage equality in Venezuela.

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Mass arrest at LGBTQ club in Venezuela prompts outcry over discrimination

It was an otherwise ordinary night at the Avalon Club, a bar and sauna well-liked with the LGBTQ group in Valencia, Venezuela’s third-largest city.

Music was playing, drinks were flowing and guests were enjoying the accommodations, which included a restaurant, smoking room and massage parlour.

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But that evening, on July 23, police would burst into the club, propelling the venue and its patrons into the national spotlight — and sparking questions about LGBTQ discrimination in Venezuela.

Patrons would later recount how the police arrived shouting, “Hands up!”

“I was having a drink with some of my finest friends,” one guest, Ivan Valera, later told local media. “I thought it was a joke.”

But the officers proceeded to circular up the 33 men in the establishment and hold them in the sauna’s locker rooms.

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Venezuela is under a dictatorship, and this authoritarian context has severely affected the rights of LGBTIQ people and the ability of civil population to operate freely. The erosion of democratic institutions and the rule of law has enabled the government to impose increasing restrictions on civic room, including harassment and criminalization of organizations working on human rights and equality. LGBTIQ people continue to face systemic discrimination, and there are no national laws recognizing same-sex partnerships, protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, or allowing for legal gender recognition. In July 2023, 33 men were arbitrarily detained at the Avalon Club in Valencia and charged with “indecent behavior,” a case that sparked national and international condemnation for its homophobic underpinnings. This event reflects the broader pattern of exclusion, force, and state-sanctioned stigma that LGBTIQ individuals continue to face in Venezuela.

*Outright investigate indicates that the bodily autonomy of intersex people is not respected and protected in this country.