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2022 turned out to be a major year for the advancement of LGBT rights with huge developments in every corner of the world. To celebrate this progress and highlight some …
2022 in worldwide LGBT rights progress – Part 2: Latin America and Caribbean Read More
After back-to-back victories in court challenges to buggery laws in Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad-based international journalist Mark Wilson wonders why it is that attitudes toward …
Jamaica: homophobia’s last stand Read More
A constitutional challenge against laws that criminalize same-sex intimacy in the Caribbean country Dominica was to be heard today at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, acting as the High Court …
Dominica High Court accepts challenge to sodomy laws Read More
More good news for LGBTQ rights could be on the way in the Caribbean, following the summer’s two legal victories that overturned anti-gay laws — in July in Antigua and …
Courts are the key to expanding LGBTQ rights in the Caribbean Read More
The current Lambeth conference of global Anglican bishops has been rocked with divisions over the issue of same-sex marriage. In contrast, the primates (heads) of the global Anglican Communion declared …
Dominican Anglican church goes rogue on gay rights Read More
2021 has been a year of slight progress in the fight against anti-LGBTQ laws, with many nations fiercely resisting any acknowledgement that their LGBTQ citizens deserve the same rights as …
2021 in review: A little progress against anti-LGBTQ laws, lots of resistance Read More
Roman Catholic Bishop Gabriel Malzaire in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica has joined forces with conservative Christians opposing a move to overturn the country’s anti-homosexuality laws. He had previously …
Catholic bishop reverses himself, favors Dominica’s anti-gay laws Read More
A gay Roman Catholic boy in Trinidad who gave up his faith to save his life. A conservative Christian in Guyana who used social media to blame gays for a …
‘LGBTQ church members are not loved as much as God wants’ (Day 2) Read More
Conservative Christians in Dominica are seeking to torpedo a lawsuit that challenges the nation’s anti-sodomy law. Merely by requesting the right to enter the lawsuit, an evangelical pastor today brought …
Evangelical pastor forces delay in Dominica lawsuit Read More
From Barbados to Zimbabwe, speakers at next month’s free online Intimate Conviction 2 conference will focus on what more needs to be done, especially by Christian churches, to put an …
Churches, activists fighting anti-gay laws — online talks Nov. 25-27 Read More
Churches in Dominica have barged their way into a lawsuit over the nation’s anti-sodomy law that has nothing to do with religious freedom.
Dominica: Churches again use delay tactics to defend anti-sodomy law Read More
Three women promised much to the Caribbean LGBTQ+ community but delivered nothing once they were in power — Patricia Scotland, Portia Simpson-Miller and Mia Mottley. None of them has taken …
Three betrayals by three powerful Caribbean women Read More
An online panel discussion about lawsuits seeking to overturn six Caribbean nations’ anti-LGBT laws is scheduled for Sunday, July 19.
Coming Sunday: Online panel about overturning Caribbean anti-gay laws Read More
Year in review: 2019 has been a mixed year for opponents of the anti-gay laws that still oppress LGBTQ people in dozens of countries worldwide.
Anti-gay laws in 2019: You win some, you lose some Read More
Commentary: Two gay men from Jamaica and Dominica share not only vivid, soul-crushing experiences but also a resolve to overturn homophobic laws.
2 gay men, 2 countries, 2 lawsuits, 1 goal Read More
On the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, one of the island’s richest and most influential hoteliers has written forcefully in support of decriminalization of homosexual activity. In a letter that …
Dominica hotelier attacks rationales for anti-gay law Read More