Though human trafficking is not foreign to the gay community, the recent disclosure of an extremely horrific sex-slave case in Miami had LGBT activists up in arms in early December. According to a report by the Miami Herald, the unnamed victim (and two other men) were forced into sexual situations with “johns” around the clock after being imported from their homeland.
One of the perpetrators, Andras Janos Vass, was sentenced to prison for more than 11 years.
The sentence is the first in Florida for gay human trafficking, the Herald reports. Over a dozen LGBT supporters showed up for the sentencing, according to the paper.
“All of them are survivors of different crimes for being gay or transgender. This is a huge deal,” Miami’s Survivor’s Pathway Organization representative Francesco Duberli told the Herald. “We’re honored to be here.”
