In Jamaica , a judge rules that the New Kingston sewers are public places so the police should not harass the LGBT youth who are living there . A group of Christians visits the youth and prays with them.
In St Lucia, a Gay cruise ship visits St Lucia and HTS TV had this news story
http://youtu.be/s-WAK6nLuVg
HTS TV does a poll about the acceptance of homosexuals
http://youtu.be/YJR3rVJoxAg
In the Dominican Republic, LGBT activists from REVASA, DIVERDOM and COIN call for an end to discrimination.
http://youtu.be/N8tb5S0NEwk
In Grenada, Groundation Grenada discusses its 'Discrimination is Discrimination' Campaign which takes on the murder music in the Caribbean
Jamaican activist Dane Lewis and Belizean activist Caleb Orozco participate in a panel discussion to talk about the American export of hate through several religious organisations.
http://youtu.be/aC679lSazYw
The New Local Mag from Trinidad & Tobago does a two part profile on CAISO
Bahamian politicians discuss LGBT rights, including dealing with religious leaders, while activist Erin Greene calls for education on LGBT issues to create a safer country..
In Guyana, the United States Embassy gives Zenita Nicholson its 2014 International Woman of Courage Award for work on LGBT rights.
St Lucia, United & Strong's Kenita Placide presents the LGBT Caucus Statement to the Conference on the Status of Women
http://youtu.be/xuY6yUfNFSs
A new book The Queer Caribbean Speaks , has a series of interviews with writers, artists and activists from the Caribbean compiled by Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus Campbell .
Check the poems from Caribbean IRN board member Colin Robinson on Small Axe.
This article from 'Tales Way Back When' in the Guyana Chronicle tells of a story from way back when a lawyer started to question to the 'sodomy laws'
COUNSEL WANTS LAW TO PERMIT HOMO RELATIONS
(Guyana Chronicle April 4, 1979)
Barrister-at-Law Stanley Moore has said that the criminal law in Guyana should be amended to permit homosexual relations between consenting adults.
He said that the United Kingdom had already amended laws to permit this.
Mr. Moore a lecturer on criminal law at the University of Guyana was at the time making a plea in mitigation before Principal Magistrate Owen Fung-kee-Fung for former Minister of Labour employee Wendell Brotherson who pleaded guilty to committing an act of gross indecency with another male person.
In a plea for leniency the counsel said that it was wrong for the law to seek to suppress the natural sexual urgings of individuals with homosexual tendencies.
He argued that a homosexual was a person who was born with a deformity for which he or she was not responsible and to condemn such a person would be like condemning a person born with a deformed lip palate or limbs.
The lawyer said that he would agree that the law should continue to frown on homosexual acts between adults and children or young persons, adding that to his mind such persons should be dealt with severely.
Brotherson of 50, Princess Street and Phillip Charles of North Ruimveldt who were charged jointly with the offence were both saved prison sentences.
Brotherson was fined $126 and Charles $500 by Magistrate Fung-kee-Fung.
Court Prosecutor Cyril Fredericks stated that on February 7, 1978 police on patrol entered a yard to investigate a report and found the two men committing the act.
The incident occurred around 10 p.m.
The counsel contended that this was not a case where the two men were causing a disturbance in the yard and the Police had to be sent for.
He said that the police went into a yard to chase a man who committed a robbery.
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(Guyana Chronicle April 4, 1979)
Barrister-at-Law Stanley Moore has said that the criminal law in Guyana should be amended to permit homosexual relations between consenting adults.
He said that the United Kingdom had already amended laws to permit this.
Mr. Moore a lecturer on criminal law at the University of Guyana was at the time making a plea in mitigation before Principal Magistrate Owen Fung-kee-Fung for former Minister of Labour employee Wendell Brotherson who pleaded guilty to committing an act of gross indecency with another male person.
In a plea for leniency the counsel said that it was wrong for the law to seek to suppress the natural sexual urgings of individuals with homosexual tendencies.
He argued that a homosexual was a person who was born with a deformity for which he or she was not responsible and to condemn such a person would be like condemning a person born with a deformed lip palate or limbs.
The lawyer said that he would agree that the law should continue to frown on homosexual acts between adults and children or young persons, adding that to his mind such persons should be dealt with severely.
Brotherson of 50, Princess Street and Phillip Charles of North Ruimveldt who were charged jointly with the offence were both saved prison sentences.
Brotherson was fined $126 and Charles $500 by Magistrate Fung-kee-Fung.
Court Prosecutor Cyril Fredericks stated that on February 7, 1978 police on patrol entered a yard to investigate a report and found the two men committing the act.
The incident occurred around 10 p.m.
The counsel contended that this was not a case where the two men were causing a disturbance in the yard and the Police had to be sent for.
He said that the police went into a yard to chase a man who committed a robbery.
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