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Jamaican activists are not con men
Protesters on April 11 make a stand in favor of LGBT rights at the Toronto office of the Consulate General of Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo courtesy of Maurice Tomlinson)
Love won in Trinidad. Let’s show haters what that means
Trinidad President Paula-Mae Weekes (Photo courtesy of The West Indian)
Trinidad president urges calm after gay-rights victory
Anti-gay backlash in Trinidad; plea for police protection
Faris Al-Rawi, attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago (Photo courtesy of Caribbean News Now)
Trinidad plans appeal to keep its anti-LGBT law
Supporters of LGBT rights demonstrate today outside Trinidad's Hall of Justice. Jason Jones, who suited to overturn Trinidad's anti-gay laws, is in the center.
Trinidad court overturns anti-sodomy law
Protest against Trinidad's anti-sodomy law on April 9. Click the image to watch the video. (Photo courtesy of CBC3)
Trinidad protesters urge overthrow of sodomy law
JASL policy and advocacy officer Patrick Lalor (Photo courtesy of The Gleaner)
Jamaican AIDS support clarifies recording sexual orientation
Poster promotes an April 9 demonstration against Trinidad & Tobago's anti-sodomy law.
Trinidadians protest as court ruling looms
Jamaican member of parliament Lisa Hanna seeks harsher punishment for pedophiles -- a change that some conservative Christians oppose. (Rudolph Brown photo courtesy of the Gleaner)
Homophobes’ absurdity: Spare pedophiles so gays will suffer
In a world where dozens of countries (shown in red) have anti-LGBT laws, about 400 million LGBTQI people are in legal jeopardy.
‘400 million LGBT people in jeopardy worldwide’
An LGBT rights activist looks out over a beach and the Caribbean Sea on the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados. (Amy Braunschweiger photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
English-speaking Caribbean lags its neighbors on LGBT rights
A Barbados Pride logo
The harshest anti-gay law in the Western Hemisphere
Letter to anti-gay pastor: Some will die because of your words
Location of Belize
Appeal of Belize decriminalization ‘effectively over’
Anti-LGBT Jamaicans: ‘Battyman and lesbian must dead’