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Recognition and divided societies - Caribbean IRN Update January 2015

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Special Collection by the Caribbean IRN & Sargasso

 Title: Love | Hope | Community: Sexualities and Social Justice in the Caribbean

 Deadline for Multimedia Submissions EXTENDED to 28 February 2015

We are looking for visual art, performance art, audio/video interviews, music, new media, film, and/or any form of digital multimedia engagement with the call.

Donnya Piggott,  head of Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination is a recipient of the inaugural Queen’s (as in Elizabeth II ) Young Leaders Award.
Image from http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/3/article_16315.php

The citation reads "Donnya had to overcome prejudice and personal challenges when she decided to set up an advocacy group for sexual minorities. Barbados – Gays and Lesbians and All-sexuals Against Discrimination (B-Glad) is a lone lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights organisation on the island. Donnya has engaged with the Prime Minister about issues facing the LGBT community and hopes to continue supporting marginalised young people in her country."

Cayman Islands and the other British Overseas Territories may have to sanction same sex unions even as in Bermuda, the Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda had to speak out against  against an ex-gay Coming Out Ministries event.

In Belize, Caleb Orozco speaks about the 17 months waiting on the judgement on the case he brought against the Government.

The role of God in the Caribbean's homophobia is the subject of the IPPF blog"Opposition to LGBTQ Liberation in the Caribbean"  and referred to in an article "Homophobia and   HIV: A Response  To, and Lessons From, The Jamaican Linked Epidemics  by Maurice Tomlinson in the Winter 2014 -2015 Issue of the Journal of the Student National Medical Association

However, in Barbados, Reverend  Davidson Bowen talks about extending love to homosexuals.

Guyana's  Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues Birkette reportedly "debunks claims of discrimination against the LGBT community"  citing her unawareness of the reports of discrimination and the freedom of expression afforded to NGOS.

The United States among other countries called on the Government to decriminalise same sex relations and address other human rights violations as noted in this Capitol News report
 ( http://youtu.be/izCXt2osYM4 )






SASOD in Guyana starts is UNEDITED series on Youtube while it announces a US$10,000  contribution to  build its LGBTI Community Centre.

Guyana Trans United commemorated 11 January, 2015 as two years of injustice citing the discrimination faced against police, but it seems the Minister of Foreign Affairs was not paying  attention. 


Please remember the deadline has been extended for Multimedia content in  the  Call for Submissions, Convocatoria, Appel à publications :Special Collection by the Caribbean IRN & Sargasso
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