Vallarta Daily News.The Resilientxs collective and the LGBT Activists Network, two local advocacy groups, were the first to call for an investigation into the young man’s murder, and have called for political leaders to reform the state’s criminal code to include hate crime charges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.Currently, only 13 states in Mexico have bias enhancements, or hate crime charges, for crimes motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity, but Quintana Roo does not have bias enhancements for murders.
As such, prosecutors are only pursuing homicide charges against the suspect.See also: Brazilian gay man gang-raped, forced to carve anti-gay slurs into body in “barbaric” attackAdditionally, because.