Caribbean musicians are seeming more gay-friendly
In the Caribbean, musicians and sexual minorities are interacting in increasingly gay-friendly ways.
Human rights watchdog fights anti-gay abuses in the Americas
LGBTI citizens of Jamaica, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Venezuela and elsewhere have been beneficiaries of the work of…
Hopeful signs for LGBT people in the Caribbean
In the Caribbean, homophobia remains a problem, but LGBT people are seeing increased signs of public acceptance, including…
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…