LGBTs in Asia Face Criminalization {Blog}

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LGBTs in Asia Face Criminalization
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/11/27/lgbts-in-asia-face-criminalization
Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia on November 27, 2007 - 8:58am

Sexuality is inextricably linked with social exclusion. Heterosexuals constitute the sexual elite while Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgenders (LGBT), sex workers, the HIV-infected constitute the sexual pariahs, the social outcastes. And with barely any control over the environment that they live in, they face the worst kind of abuse and human rights violations imaginable. Often abandoned by their families (due to the associated stigma) or given up to be brought up by similar groups due to their ambiguous sex, they very literally start early in life to fend for themselves.