Same sex adoption , music and LGBT tourism - Caribbean IRN Update February 2015

The Caribbean Sea continued to move between Bermuda where the Supreme Court ruled that unmarried couples including same-sex couples can adopt children, and Trinidad & Tobago where they had a lil bacchanal when Senator Cudjoe suggested that Trinidad & Tobago's adoption law would have to consider same sex adoption. However , Minister Coudray said that they are not so advanced.

This is a Trinidadian video production Coming Out Stories and Steups Productions Present: LGBT Rights in T&T

In Jamaica, TVJ mutes a gay man's Grammy Award speech as Queen Ifrica said the reggae artistes slammed gays to get applause , and music manager Copeland Forbes said that gays made the Jamaican music industry suffer. However, J-FLAG said they are open to dialogue with the artistes.

The Public Defender in Jamaica Arlene Harrison - Henry commits to rights for all including LGBT Jamaicans. J-FLAG announced its Top Achievements in LGBT rights in Jamaica in 2014 which was also reported in the Jamaica Gleaner.

And in LGBT tourism - a tourist of Jamaica writes What is it like to be a gay traveller in Jamaica? and activists from the Dominican Republic work to promote LGBT tourism.

Please feel free to join this event on March 6 2015! You would need to register before by email to dloc (at) fiu.edu .

Link to Meeting https://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/_a1117191254/mvb/

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