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I asked him what was he doing in my house. I started to get nervous, it was silent for a moment. It took what felt like 60 seconds for him to move the gun away from me and exit my bedroom door. Why act so nough? Attacks can happen in the streets, at any hour of the day, including in public spaces and at events, such as carnival. Arthur, an year-old from St. Lucia, told Human Rights Watch that he was pelted with stones in during carnival celebration.
As we were entering the house, a car pulled out, two persons jumped out…. I told my boyfriend to run. They stabbed me, several times, the deepest one was below the navel. My boyfriend was also attacked with stones. Charles, a year-old gay man from Antigua and Barbuda told Human Rights Watch about his first and only experience of physical homophobic violence, an episode that occurred in November It was about 7 p. They took a shortcut to the main road where they encountered a man on a bicycle who seemed to be following them.
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The man rode past them, before turning into an alley where he left his bike. Charles and Emily separated and Charles crossed to the other side of the street, where the man followed him. When the man walked passed him again, this time very close, he felt what he described as a sharp pinch and sting.
He soon realized that he was bleeding. He had been stabbed. Afraid, Emily had run away and Charles had fled from his assailant, who began to chase him until Charles finally escaped through some bushes and hid. Charles tried to call people to tell them what was happening.
He then asked people in the vicinity for help, an ambulance was called, and he spent the next three days in hospital. To this day Charles bears a visible scar, about an inch long on the upper-right-hand side of his body. Charles described his attacker to police officials and explained that he had never seen him before and had no idea who he was.
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He has not seen him since, but says he would recognize him if he did. Charles had never seen his attacker before the attack. He provided a full description to the police and told officers that the assailant made homophobic insults before he was stabbed. Police took his statement, and clothes as evidence. He is unsure of the progress of the case. He was told to go to the police station to get more information but had not done so when we spoke with him.
In many cases violence occurs out of the blue, as was the case with Augusten, a year-old gay man and store clerk from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who blacked out after being attacked by a stranger in public. One time I was walking home and a gentleman stopped me and slapped [me] in the face because I was gay. I actually blacked out, he caught me unguarded. Homophobia permeates every sphere of life for most gay men.
Sean, a year-old from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, said:. Gay men have routinely sought asylum on grounds of the homophobic violence experienced in their home country. Gabriel, a year-old gay man from St. Lucia, sought and was granted asylum in Canada. Michaela, a year-old artist and lesbian from Grenada, told Human Rights Watch that the violence she experienced was perpetrated by complete strangers. She recalled an episode when she went on a beach swimming date with a girlfriend in July She told Human Rights Watch that they only hugged twice when a man appeared with a harpoon and chased them.
She also described a similar incident that took place a few months later while spending an afternoon on the beach with her girlfriend. They were confronted by a team of construction workers. Florence, year-old a trans woman from Barbados, recounted how in mid-April she had taken a 5-minute walk from her house to a local store at about 9 p.
She took refuge with a neighbor who had two dogs for protection, and called the police. They arrived about an hour later and interviewed the young men who were then giggling among themselves. She identified one of the perpetrators who denied that he was involved. It is not only random strangers who perpetrate violence against LGBT people.
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Transgender women report being particularly vulnerable to intimate partner violence. Emily, a year-old trans woman from Antigua and Barbuda, told Human Rights Watch about her first encounter with a suitor:. Isabella, a year-old trans woman from Barbados, told Human Rights Watch about an incident in January when she was struck in her face with a bottle, after an altercation with people from her village. She was hospitalized. Alanis, a year-old a trans woman from Dominica, recalled a series of violent attacks on her between and These included several physical attacks which led to head injuries on three occasions.
The most extreme form of violence that she experienced was being choked on the street by a stranger after a verbal altercation. Almost all interviewees reported being routinely ridiculed, harassed, threatened, and verbally abused based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
Indeed, for many the taunts were so commonplace that they did not deem it worthy of mention to Human Rights Watch researchers. Verbal abuse was so much part of the fabric of everyday life that it went unnoticed and unremarked.
Most interviewees said unless they were physically confronted they typically tried to ignore taunts and insults because physical altercations would ensue if they reacted. Bill, a year-old office clerk and gay man from St. Strangers verbally assault me every day. I receive threats of physical violence also, almost every day. Richard, a year-old gay man working as an assistant in a civil society organization in St. Lucia, has received written and verbal threats online because of his sexual orientation.
Toby, a year-old gay man from St. Lucia, experienced several threats of physical violence. They said they expected the police to be biased, unresponsive, and unlikely to investigate crimes against them. In some cases, they feared arrest under laws that criminalized same-sex intimacy. Several interviewees reported that police asked them inappropriate, intrusive questions about their sex lives.
Fourteen people interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that they did not sufficiently trust the police to report incidents to them. Those that did report crimes to the police cited negative experiences including inefficiency, inaction, and in some cases, antipathy that led to secondary victimization. Some LGBT people said that they relied on individual police officers whom they knew to be sympathetic. Some police officers in some of the countries covered in this report have gone through general human rights training, in line with several UPR recommendations that called on the countries to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and to thoroughly investigate acts of violence motivated by such animus.
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Some interviewees, particularly those who lived in rural areas, also expressed having positive experiences with police officers who work in local villages. Human rights training and sensitivity training for police on LGBT issues are particularly important in an environment in which commonplace homophobia bolsters a macho culture within the police. As noted above, many interviewees told Human Rights Watch that police officers question LGBT individuals in a degrading manner about their sexual orientation, detracting attention from the crimes they are there to report.
Jason, a year-old gay man from Barbados, described to Human Rights Watch past interactions with police officers:. And did they not pay you? Are you a callboy? Especially if you know the perpetrator. When Jason was raped in and reported it, police were dismissive and he felt he was not being heard. I left that with them. Bill, a year-old gay man from Antigua, was also treated dismissively by police officials when he tried to report a crime in , an incident in which a man broke into his home and threatened him. We are just not taken seriously.
Augusten, a year-old store clerk from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, told Human Rights Watch that even altercations with friends can lead to random questioning about his sexual orientation. I had a dispute with a friend of mine. He suggested that because of my sexual orientation I asked for it. Today if I pass the police barracks people will say things. Sophia, a year-old from Barbados, said police discredited what she said because she was a lesbian:. In October , my ex-girlfriend took my passport and I went to the police to get help to take it back.
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