Jamaica: Gay panic defense in killing of Pride icon
The man who killed fashion designer Dexter Pottinger had his murder charge reduced to manslaughter after he told…
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…
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,…
How to fight homophobia: A partial success story from Jamaica
Montego Bay Pride demonstrated how to fight homophobia through public service. In painting a local hospital, LGBT volunteers…
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…
Updates: Liberia, Jamaica, Chechnya, Russia/Norway
A campaign to reduce anti-gay and anti-HIV+ stigma in West Africa, an Inter-American case against Jamaica’s sodomy law,…
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.
Jamaica: I’ll miss mom’s funeral; gay men aren’t safe there
COMMENTARY: Jamaica’s anti-gay violence makes even funerals unsafe. As Jamaican churches keep spewing hatred, no place is safe…
India OKs gay sex. What’s next? Jamaica, please!
Jamaica should stop dragging its heels and follow the example of India: Set gay Jamaicans free to love…