Dominica: Churches again use delay tactics to defend anti-sodomy law
Churches in Dominica have barged their way into a lawsuit over the nation’s anti-sodomy law that has nothing…
Coming Sunday: Online panel about overturning Caribbean anti-gay laws
An online panel discussion about lawsuits seeking to overturn six Caribbean nations’ anti-LGBT laws is scheduled for Sunday,…
Only 72 nations still cling to their anti-gay laws
Slowly, slowly, nations are giving up the idea that they should make it a crime to love someone…
The U.S. Supreme Court, LGBT rights and my Jamaica
Yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on LGBT rights will help LGBT Jamaicans in their struggle for recognition of…
Belize appeals court affirms: Anti-gay law is dead
The appeals court of Belize yesterday added new shovelfuls of dirt on the grave of the country’s defunct…
Gay man challenges Dominica’s anti-LGBT laws
A newly filed lawsuit seeks to overturn Dominica’s anti-gay law, building on the global push for decriminalisation of…
Tally of nations with anti-gay laws drops to 73
Gay sex is much less widely criminalized than in the past. Back in 2006, 92 countries had anti-gay…
Belize turnaround on gay rights: ‘Unbelievable!’
Belize has vowed major improvements in the treatment of its LGBTI citizens. That promise of progress on gay…
How Caribbean courts and LGBT activists nudge us toward justice
As courts strike down anti-sodomy laws across the Caribbean, the region’s governments have been freed to embrace LGBTI…
Jamaican activists are not con men
What to make of a prominent Roman Catholic deacon’s claim that Jamaican LGBT-rights activists are acting like con…