Several Caribbean countries with laws against same-sex intimacy are at least discussing the possibility of repealing them. In Belize and Jamaica, those laws are being challenged in court. In Guyana, the prime minister talks about repealing them. In Dominica, the prime minister says they’re not enforced. But sexual minorities suffer from intense social stigma in … Continue reading
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Toolkit for progress toward LGBT rights in 53 countries
The Commonwealth of 53 nations, formerly the British Commonwealth, can play a positive role in improving the lives of LGBT citizens even though dozens of those countries still have anti-LGBT laws inherited from their former colonial overlords. So say the LGBT rights advocates at London-based Kaleidoscope Trust, which this week published a “toolkit” of recommendations … Continue reading
Lawyers, activists target anti-LGBT bias in Caribbean
Attorneys and activists met this week in Grenada to discuss strategy for litigation and advocacy seeking an end to anti-LGBT discrimination in countries in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). This is a press release from United and Strong Inc., Saint Lucia, and GrenCHAP, Grenada, describing the work: Is litigation around the criminalisation and … Continue reading
LGBT rights in the Caribbean: Talk with no action
The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis AGAIN calls for a review of archaic anti-sodomy laws in the Caribbean. HOWEVER, he fails to take any action in this regard in his own country. The Guardian reports: St Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas, says the newly-installed Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (Carpha) first course of … Continue reading
Vargas Llosa: South America’s homophobia killed Zamudio
COMMENTARY Last month’s murder of Chilean gay activist Daniel Zamudio gave a boost to a bill to prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in Chile, but Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru says what’s really needed is a massive change in South America’s sexist, homophobic culture. Vargas Llosa analyzed the deep roots of … Continue reading
