Male, Female, Other .. Caribbean IRN Update January 2018

Extract from the NPTA Guyana Supplier Registration Form 

Almost one year after the day when 289 Caribbean Christians wrote to President Donald Trump to appeal to him to restore morality , Jamaica refuses entry to an American moral crusader who has wanted to kill gays.

In Guyana, bureaucracy at the Ministry of Finance is a symbol of progress as the National Procurement and Tender Administration Supplier Registration Form acknowledges that applicants might want to be of one of  Male, Female, Other gender.

Barbados Today said that the UN gave Barbados a ' Gay Push' at the January 2018 Universal Periodic Review.

The lawyers for Jason Jones have presented their arguments in Jones vs AG of TT and the decision is scheduled for April 12. Will Trinidad & Tobago's jurisprudence follow Belize's?
Friends for Life in Trinidad & Tobago publishes a summary of their findings from the participatory research "Understanding the Experiences of LGBTQI in Trinidad and Tobago" in the Sunday Express.

The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian publishes a series of articles about LGBTI citizens . These are :-
Study: T&T’s LGBTQI community denied rights
Milly happy after being granted asylum
Love your child unconditionally


Caribbean activists welcome the recent pronouncements from the Inter American Court on Human Rights that same-sex marriage should be allowed.
In Guyana, SASOD launches a project to provide "free legal aid to vulnerable persons"

Jamaican activist Jaevion Nelson writes about the needing a Pro-poor LGBT movement.
The Indepedent (UK) writes "In the last 10 years, Cuba has reinvented itself as a progressive nation when it comes to LGBT rights"

Poet Rajiv Mohabir writes a coolitude manifesto "We are straight, queer, trans, faggots, dykes, antiman, bullahs, battyboys, hetero-, homo-, polyamorous, monogamous, flexisexual, dougla, a threat to monological flatlandist thinking of being only one thing at a time."

Elizabeth Jaikarran publishes Trauma : "A collection of true and extraordinary stories that speak of the abuse suffered by Guyanese women, girls, and members of the LGBT community both in their native country and after having emigrated to the United States"


CARIFLAGS is asking people to fill out a survey about how the Human Rights mechanisms serve LGBTI people

Don't forget to check our collection at Caribbean Sexualities – Love | Hope | Community – Sexualities & Social Justice in the Caribbean and share it with others.

The collection includes selected pieces from the Sargasso Print Edition, as well as special online features, including "Write It In Fire - Tributes to Michelle Cliff" (prose, poetry, visual and performance art).