Condoms: A controversial idea for fighting HIV in Jamaican prisons
The HIV rate in Jamaica’s prisons has doubled in seven years, but controversy surrounds a plan to distribute…
Caribbean cricket lesson: ‘Nothing wrong with being gay’
In the Caribbean, anti-gay slurs are less acceptable than they used to be. A star West Indies cricketer…
On International Women’s Day: End daily ‘corrective rapes’
South Africa-native lesbian activist blogger Melanie Nathan appeals today for an end to the cruel and wrong-headed epidemic…
Guyana bisexual seeks to become Anglican priest
Family and God are priorities of Marvin Junior Livan, an openly bisexual citizen of Guyana who aspires to…
Jamaican vote on sodomy law? Get out of gays’ bedrooms!
Cowardly. Ridiculous. Perverse. That’s how gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson describes a Jamaican parliamentary committee and its recommendation…
Minor breakthrough for Jamaica’s powerful Adventists
Members of Jamaica’s powerful, popular, fundamentalist Seventh Day Adventists have started to realize that LGBT people deserve courtesy,…
Belize turnaround on gay rights: ‘Unbelievable!’
Belize has vowed major improvements in the treatment of its LGBTI citizens. That promise of progress on gay…
Top Caribbean court nixes Guyana cross-dressing law
The Caribbean Court of Justice today struck down Guyana’s law against cross-dressing. “No one should have his or…
Courts skew the case against Jamaican anti-sodomy law
Ten religious groups have legal standing to oppose a challenge to Jamaica’s anti-sodomy law, but the official Jamaican…
International religious leader urge repeal of Caribbean anti-LGBT laws
Religious leaders from five nations have called on governments across the Caribbean to repeal their anti-gay laws.