LGBT associations announce support for HDP candidate Demirtaş
Several associations representing the LGBT community have announced support for Peoplesâ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin DemirtaÅ in the upcoming presidential elections Aug. 10, emphasizing he was the only candidate to express his commitment to gay rights.
The 12 associations, including Kaos GL, Pembe Hayat, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPOD) and Hêvî LGBTÄ° Initiative, stressed DemirtaÅ had acknowledged the LGBTâs place in society without âifs and buts.â
âWe are making public that we support the candidate of the people and change in the presidential elections, Selahattin DemirtaÅ, who has made a call for a new life based on freedom, equality, fraternity and peace and who has defended human rights without making exceptions,â the statement issued Aug. 7 read.
The groups have slammed that dominant political parties have ignored the rights of LGBT individuals.
âBeing referred to as the âother,â LGBTIâs are pushed away from society due to their sexual identities, discriminated in education, health, work life, media and social benefits. Not only limited to this, they are subjected to every kind of oppression and violence, while their basic right to live is limited by hate speech and hate crimes,â the statement read.
Sexually free society
The associations have also said they felt they identified with DemirtaÅâs statement that his call for a ânew lifeâ was also a call for a âsexually free society.â
âThe LGBT movement, which has adopted the motto that the salvation of homosexuals will also free heterosexuals, is also making efforts to develop comradery with all of the...
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