Homosexuals in Honduras

      "We want our right to life to be respected, for the police to stop killing homosexuals in Honduras.”

---By Honduras homosexual organization

      Homosexuality will never be accepted in Honduras. This is partly due to the fact that the country has a Christian cultural basis and people are religiously conservative. The Honduras government strictly enforced draconian laws against homosexuality; over the past years, homosexuals have been suffered from physical and sexual abuse, social exclusion, discrimination, even harassment from community, church, political and police. It is not surprised that the majority of them have not confessed publicly about his or her homosexual tendencies. There is a rumor circulated for years in Honduran society, said that a former Honduras president is a homosexual even though he is a married man and professes the catholic religion. Whether it is true or not, it is understandable in a conservative society why homosexuals were regarded as abnormal and subject to abuse.

      The Honduran governmental authorities provide no protection to the country’s homosexual community and community organizations. Three years ago, LGBT population (The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) joined together, and led a public protest to demanding their human, since many of their members are frequently suffered harassment and intimidation from government and police, including murder, beatings, and other mistreatment.