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Priest: Transform shame in Dominica into change
COMMENTARY Good can come from the shameful treatment of a gay couple from Palm Springs, Calif., who were arrested recently on a cruise in Dominica, says the Rev. Canon Albert Ogle of St. Paul’s...
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Vargas Llosa: South America’s homophobia killed Zamudio
Funeral of Daniel Zamudio on March 30. (Photo courtesy of Jorge Barrios via Wiki Commons) COMMENTARY Last month’s murder of Chilean gay activist Daniel Zamudio gave a boost to a bill to prohibit...
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Catholic bishop in Dominica: End anti-homosexuality laws
Bishop Gabriel Malzaire Bishop Gabriel Malzaire, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Dominica, has called for the elimination of criminal penalties for homosexuality and an end to “all forms of...
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Signs of Caribbean progress for Catholics, LGBT rights
Location of Dominica in the Caribbean (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Congrats to the new Dominican LGBT group Minority Rights Dominica (MiriDom) and their leader, Daryl Philip, for continuing a robust...
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Caribbean overview: LGBT rights vs. anti-gay status quo
The Trinidad newspaper Newsday provides these overviews of anti-gay protests, recent anti-gay violence, and gay-rights activism in Caribbean countries. The overviews are part of an extensive article...
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Impoverished, Jamaica still rejects gay tourism dollars
Rainbow colors are on display in Jamaica in sarongs, but not in tourism. (Photo by Steven Gruber courtesy of Pinterest) Jamaica was recently selected to chair the United Nations World Tourism...
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Letter to Pope: Halt church support of anti-gay violence
Pope Francis (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Human Rights Watch has challenged Pope Francis to speak more directly in opposition to violence and discrimination against LGBT people worldwide and...
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IDAHOT anti-hate campaign: Even in 20 anti-gay nations
IDAHOT 2014 LGBT rights activists and supporters — even those in 20 nations where homosexuality is illegal — will celebrate International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on Saturday,...
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Dominica leader: No enforcement of anti-gay law
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit (Photo courtesy of CaribbeanTrakker.com) Dominica does not enforce its law against homosexual activity, at least in private homes, and has no plans to do so,...
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Lawyers, activists target anti-LGBT bias in Caribbean
LGBTI rights activists and supportive attorneys confer in a three-day meeting at the Flamboyant Hotel in Grenada. (Photo by Maurice Tomlinson) Attorneys and activists met this week in Grenada to...
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‘On Being Queer in the Caribbean’
Gabrielle Bellot (Photo courtesy of The James Franco Review) Gabrielle Bellot, an exiled transgender woman from Dominica, tells how the prize-winning work of exiled gay author Marlon James of Jamaica...
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Commonwealth: Maybe talk about LGBTI rights in 2018?
Baroness Patricia Scotland (Photo courtesy of The Telegraph) Commonwealth nations have been unwilling to talk formally about dropping the anti-LGBT laws that remain on the books in 40 of the 53...
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Caribbean nations inch their way toward LGBTI rights
Map of the Caribbean shows Belize at center left and Trinidad and Guyana at lower right. (Map courtesy of CDC.gov) Homeless LGBT youths in Jamaica slept in a drainage culvert before police forced them...
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Human Rights Day marks launch of Caribbean alliance
A new coalition of human rights and LGBTQI organizations in the eastern Caribbean marked its official launch on Human Rights Day 2016. ECADE, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality,...
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LGBTQI coalition gears up in eastern Caribbean
A new coalition of LGBTQI organizations in the eastern Caribbean is setting its sights on improving the lives of the region’s sexual minorities. The Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and...
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English-speaking Caribbean lags its neighbors on LGBT rights
An LGBT rights activist looks out over a beach and the Caribbean Sea on the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados. (Amy Braunschweiger photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch) Seven English-speaking island...
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Lawsuit aims to overturn Dominica’s anti-gay laws
The Caribbean island nation of Dominica will soon become the region’s third country facing a lawsuit over its anti-gay laws. Location of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean. A gay man, who must remain...
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Gay man challenges Dominica’s anti-LGBT laws
A newly filed lawsuit seeks to overturn Dominica’s anti-gay law, building on the global push for decriminalisation of LGBT people. If successful, the suit will eliminate one of the last remaining...
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Dominica hotelier attacks rationales for anti-gay law
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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2 gay men, 2 countries, 2 lawsuits, 1 goal
Commentary: Two gay men from Jamaica and Dominica share not only vivid, soul-crushing experiences but also a resolve to overturn homophobic laws. By Maurice Tomlinson Flag of Dominica Flag of Jamaica I...
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