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LGBT rights have expanded more in Latin America than elsewhere in the North Atlantic region, according to a new report by the .

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 Entire countries have legalized same-sex marriage and expanded health services for LGBT individuals. But the region also has countries, like Jamaica, that are some of the most dangerous places in the world to be gay. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with , professor of political science at and the author of the report; , lawyer and politician, who was Colombia’s first publically-gay legislator; and , an LGBT activist in Jamaica. 

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Jaevion Nelson

 All three speak at an at UNC’s Fed-Ex Global Education Center this evening at 5:30 p.m.