Exporting Homophobia
By Nicole Makris, AlterNet.


The Bush administration's anti-gay rights policies are maddening in the United States, but their implications abroad are much more devastating.

When the U.S. State Department released its annual report on human rights on Wednesday, countries like Iran, Pakistan and Zimbabwe scored very poorly, as they have for many years past.

But trumpeting these countries' shoddy rights' records was apparently no disincentive to prevent the United States from joining up with them earlier this year to ban two pioneering gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights groups from participating in human rights discussions at the United Nations.

MURDER OF TRANSEXUAL IN PORTUGAL AND THE ON-GOING ATTEMPT TO SILENCE IT:


Gisberta, brasilian imigrant, transexual, HIV positive, having drug problems, sex-worker and homeless, was found dead on the 22th of February inside a pit 10 metres deep, in an unfinished building in Porto, the second biggest portuguese city. The crime was confessed by a group of 14 boys, between 10 and 16 years old. They turtured and raped her for days. Most of the boys come from a child protection institution belonging to the Catholic Church although financed by the state.