Katya Fuentes Ayala Research Paper

Katya Fuentes Ayala
I consider important to address this issue regarding Gays and other targets of stigma since I have been exposed to two completely different societies and cultures. One from my country El Salvador, and the one I find in the United States. It is an issue that in the last decades has had a lot of controversy in both societies, especially in my country. In the US, the LGBT community is much more accepted. They are a united front and have fought to gain their rights. However, this is not the case in Latin American countries. All due to the lack of well-founded information and social fear, especially because people do not have a conscious and informed position on this issue, expanding their criteria and breaking with the taboos that are held about the LGBT community is a challenge. …show more content…
Unfortunately, Latinos live in a culture that clings to machismo in many circumstances. The patriarchal culture continues to predominate, where to discriminate the poor, the disabled, women, children, the elderly, the indigenous, and today more frequently, people with different sexual preferences called gays, lesbians and bisexuals is something that happens every day, becoming somewhat