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Tag: Dominica

Americas

2022 in worldwide LGBT rights progress – Part 2: Latin America and Caribbean

January 3, 2023January 4, 2023 - by Rob Salerno - 5 Comments.

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 …

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Americas / Caribbean / Commentary / Politics

Jamaica: homophobia’s last stand

November 21, 2022October 28, 2022 - by Contributing Writer - 1 Comment

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 …

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Dominica High Court to hear challenge to sodomy laws
Americas

Dominica High Court accepts challenge to sodomy laws

September 27, 2022 - by Contributing Editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Americas / Caribbean

Courts are the key to expanding LGBTQ rights in the Caribbean

September 22, 2022October 5, 2022 - by Colin Stewart - 2 Comments.

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 …

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Americas / Commentary

Dominican Anglican church goes rogue on gay rights

August 3, 2022 - by Maurice Tomlinson - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Africa / Americas / Caribbean

2021 in review: A little progress against anti-LGBTQ laws, lots of resistance

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 - by Colin Stewart - 1 Comment

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 …

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Bishop Gabriel Malzaire
Americas / Faith and religion

Catholic bishop reverses himself, favors Dominica’s anti-gay laws

January 27, 2021January 28, 2021 - by Colin Stewart - 1 Comment

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 …

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Americas / Asia / Faith and religion / International

‘LGBTQ church members are not loved as much as God wants’ (Day 2)

November 26, 2020December 4, 2020 - by Colin Stewart - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Americas / Caribbean

Evangelical pastor forces delay in Dominica lawsuit

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 - by Colin Stewart - 2 Comments.

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 …

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Caribbean / Faith and religion / International

Churches, activists fighting anti-gay laws — online talks Nov. 25-27

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 - by Colin Stewart - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Americas / Caribbean / Commentary

Dominica: Churches again use delay tactics to defend anti-sodomy law

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 - by Maurice Tomlinson - Leave a Comment

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.

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Americas / Caribbean

Three betrayals by three powerful Caribbean women

July 26, 2020 - by Maurice Tomlinson - 1 Comment

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 …

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Americas / Caribbean

Coming Sunday: Online panel about overturning Caribbean anti-gay laws

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 - by Maurice Tomlinson - 4 Comments.

An online panel discussion about lawsuits seeking to overturn six Caribbean nations’ anti-LGBT laws is scheduled for Sunday, July 19.

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As many as 20,000 people gather in Singapore for the Pink Dot festival, which seeks recognition of the human rights of LGBTI people. (Photo courtesy of Yahoo)
Africa / Americas / Asia / International

Anti-gay laws in 2019: You win some, you lose some

December 20, 2019 - by Colin Stewart - Leave a Comment

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.

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Americas / Caribbean / Commentary

2 gay men, 2 countries, 2 lawsuits, 1 goal

August 8, 2019 - by Maurice Tomlinson - Leave a Comment

Commentary: Two gay men from Jamaica and Dominica share not only vivid, soul-crushing experiences but also a resolve to overturn homophobic laws.

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Americas / Caribbean / Commentary

Dominica hotelier attacks rationales for anti-gay law

July 29, 2019 - by Colin Stewart - Leave a Comment

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 …

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