*Within the history of the gains made by people of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, it has been key to put the discussion into spaces that are different from that of bed (sexuality), to strengthen it from human rights and within them to include it directly or indirectly within the political parties.*
* Many times this subject had been posed to presidential or parliamentary candidates, and in others, as is the case in Nepal, by their own candidacy * * Many people in different cities have launched ourselves into elective office within a process of maturation and now the fruits start to be seen with the victory of Sunil Plant, who deserves all of our respect and congratulations. In other cities of the worlds we also have interesting processes of our own candidates.* * German Humberto Rincon-Perfetti* *Bogota – Colombia* * Nepal elects its first gay representative to Parliament.* ***Nepal – (365Gay.com) * *Nepal has elected Sunil Plant, the founder of the Blue Diamond Society, LGBT rights organization as its first gay representative to Parliament to represent Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Thirty-five years old, Plant ran for the CPN-U, one of the small national communist parties. He was one of the five members of the LGBT Community that ram for political office in the election that was on the left side of the government of the Himalayan country * * The election was key to obtaining the peace treaty between the Maoists and the principal parties of the countries, which served to end the decade long civil war in Nepal. We were honored to sent Plant as our representative in the constitutional assembly, declare the leader of the CPN-U, Ganesh Shah. We hope that with this will serve to improve the quality of life of the persons that suffer the greatest repression in Nepal, dishonored as much by their families as by their society, added Shah. Last year Plant was honored by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission for his work for the civil rights of the members of the LGBT community and for the promotion of VIH/AIDS education.* * * *Homosexual acts are punished in Nepal with a sentence of one to two years of prison. Last December, the Nepal Supreme Court indicated to the government the creation of new laws which protect the rights of gays and the immediate change of the present highly discriminatory laws toward the members of this community*
