West Indies: Christian leader opposes anti-gay laws; you can help
You can help amplify the voice of an increasingly prominent Christian leader speaking out against Caribbean nations’ anti-gay…
Jamaica to gay tourists: I want you
Jamaica refuses to repeal its anti-gay law, but doesn’t want to scare away gay tourists. A cartoon in…
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…
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…