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Story with a moral: 2 gay tourists, 1 anti-gay merchant

Story with a moral: 2 gay tourists, 1 anti-gay merchant

Two tourists in Barbados come across a small protest against the country's buggery law.
Two tourists in Barbados come across a small protest against the country’s buggery law …

Two gay tourists arrived on a cruise in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Aug. 19 and decided to explore the beautiful capital. On their stroll they passed a shop at the same time as a group of local boys who, according to the tourists, looked gay.

The Barbadian shopkeeper hurled homophobic insults at the youngsters and then turned to the tourists and asked if they wanted to come in for a drink.

The visitors indignantly said, “Not from you!”

The shopkeeper was left dumbfounded and with a lot to think about.

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Linda Mafu, head of political and civil society advocacy at the Global Fund. (Photo courtesy of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria)

The gentlemen saw our little Stand for Equality and Inclusion in front of the Parliament mounted by the brave Barbadian trans* activist, Alexa D V. Strauss-Hoffmann. They decided to join us, and were shocked to learn that Barbados has up to life imprisonment for private consensual male same-gender intimacy.

The moral of the story for Caribbean business people: If you treat local LGBTI people with disrespect, you may be chasing away foreign guests, and business.

... so the tourists join the protest. (Photos courtesy of Maurice Tomlinson)
… so the tourists join the protest. (Photos courtesy of Maurice Tomlinson)
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