Skip to main content

LGBT seeking Justice - Caribbean IRN Update January 2017

By
L - Caleb Orozco from Pink News, C- Yvanna Hilton and Audrey Tjong a Sie from DWT, R - Winston Godwin and Greg De Rouche from The Royal Gazette

In Suriname,  transgender citizen Yvanna Hilton has won the right to change her gender at the Census Office after a year long court battle. In Bermuda, preservers of marriage continue to pray as the court hears the case brought by Winston Godwin and Greg De Roche .

Caleb Orozco from  Belize collects the 2017 David Kato Vision and Voice Award in the UK.
See his speech on Youtube


There is news from Cuba that activist  Nelson Gandulla Díaz is harassed and prevented from leaving the country. There is no news of Mariela Castro's response.

The Jamaica Star reports that Mayor of Maypen , Winston Maragh is concerned about a gang of homosexuals warring with a gang of heterosexuals.  The Jamaica Star also reports on the launch of Outpages, whose developers failed to respond to request for interviews.

In Cayman Islands, Colours Cayman  pledges to work for LGBT equality in the face of the opposition in the territory.

The Miami Herald reports about the Santurce neighbourhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Chicago Tribune describes four countries to celebrate Carnival Curaçao is described by head of the Tourism Board -""Our melting pot history has led to a progressive 'live and let live' philosophy that has long welcomed the LGBT community,"

The article though does not mention anything about the melting pot history of Trinidad, Barbados and St Lucia and whether LGBT people are welcome to carnival there.

A gay cruiser writes about going through the Puerto Rico, St Martin and St Kitts.


The book  Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963 by Gemma Romain is announced.

According to the blurb "This is the first biography of the extraordinary – but also ordinary – life of Patrick Nelson, whose experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the 20th century.
Nelson was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a gay man in 1930s London; an artist's model; a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and POW in the Second World War. Through his return to Jamaica after the war and his re-migrations to London in the late 1940s and late 1950s/early 1960s, he was also witness to post-war Jamaican struggles and the independence movement as well as the development of London's post-war multi-ethnic migrations. Drawing on previously unpublished letters sent to individuals such as Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant (his former boyfriend and life-long friend), paintings and newspaper articles, Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelson's life and demonstrates how such marginalized histories shed light on our understanding of broader historical events."


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

British Guiana 1898 : Punishment for Sodomy meted out to Nabi Baksh and Mohangoo on the Mersey

By
Between 1838 and 1917, the British brought indentured labour from India to the then British Guiana.  An 1898 report from the Governor of British Guiana to the Colonial Office in England reports on the punishment meted out by the Surgeon Superintendent of the Mersey against two men Nabi Baksh and Mohangoo for committing sodomy. "Nobibux was put in irons and Mohangu, after blistering his penis, was made to holystone from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. " The Surgeon Superintendent said that he had "known of cases where the penis had been blistered, as a prevention treatment, in cases of Masturbation with boys" When the ship docked in British Guiana, there was an investigation which included testimony from others on the ship. This report was donated by author Gaiutra Bahadur. Ms Bahadur got the report from the Colonial Office Correspondence books at the UK National Archives at Kew, United Kingdom while doing research for her soon to be...
Post a Comment
Read more

WRITE IT IN FIRE: TRIBUTES TO MICHELLE CLIFF :Call for Submissions

By
Michelle Cliff (1946-2016) was a remarkable writer who claimed many identities she was taught to despise: Lesbian, Black, Woman, Jamaican. She wrote powerful novels, essays, stories, and poems that make us rethink what it means to love, to hope, and to have community. She also carved space for same-sex loving and diverse sexualities in the Caribbean by representing our desires fiercely and by being deeply rooted in place. She continues to inspire us to write our stories, our sense of self, in fire. “ A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives – our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings ― all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. ― Michelle Cliff, “Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise” “ Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?” ― Michelle Cliff, Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories “ It was Zoe, and Zoe alone, I thought of. She snapped into my mind, and I remem...
Read more

Caribbean LGBTIQplus citizenship - Caribbean IRN Update Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, December 2025

By
(Snapshot of results of Jan 2026 Google Image search of Caribbean LGBTIQ)   Hurricane Melissa Recovery  Equality for all Foundation Jamaica and other  Caribbean LGBTIQ+groups mobilised to respond to the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa.    Living and laws Equality for all Foundation launches its 'Queer Agenda' which does not include anything about making all Jamaicans gay. Jason Jones writes about the "dreaded “savings law clause” which preserves colonial homophobia in parts of the Caribbean  Guyanese businessman Harold Hopkinson talked about the personal impact of homophobic discrimination on his family as he called for change in legislation, and another businessman Omkaar Sharma also called for repeal of the anti-gay laws.   The Protected Areas Trust is responsible for oversight of Protected Areas in Guyana. The Gender Policy was adopted in 2025. The Policy recognises gender diversity beyond the binary, and that sexual orie...
Post a Comment
Read more