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LGBTQ

  • Through these efforts, Guyana Together will amplify public support for overturning the country’s outdated law criminalizing consensual intimacy between two men – which a 2022 poll showed that 54% of the Guyanese public agrees should be eliminated. The majority of CARICOM countries have already eliminated their laws which criminalise same-sex intimacy. 
    September 13, 2023

    Historic “Guyana Together” Campaign Launched to Win Acceptance of Gay and Trans People

  • The Survey Launch brought together key stakeholders, civil society representatives, academics, international organisations, and members of the LGBTI community. The evening served as a platform for open dialogue and reflection on the survey findings, fostering an inclusive environment for discussing the way forward in addressing the specific lived realities and needs of the LGBTI community.
    July 22, 2023

    UNDP Launched their National LGBTI Survey Report in Barbados

  • This strong sequel welcomes the return of Eddie Barrow, a Montreal author and amateur sleuth, and his outspoken best friend Corey Stephenson. After witnessing a savage murder while visiting Montego Bay, they both get pulled into searching for the killer. However, they wind up in the crosshairs of ruthless assassins after uncovering evidence of a larger criminal conspiracy.
    March 11, 2023

    A Crime Thriller as Spicy as Jamaican Jerk Sauce: “Jam Run” by Russell Brooks

  • Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has advocated a less doctrinal policy approach for modern Catholicism. Francis is a man of his time, determined not to harden the Church's anachronistic positions in times, which have changed, with a greater emphasis on human rights, including gay rights. In the interview with the Associated Press, he emphasised the Holy See's position that laws that criminalize homosexuality outright are "unjust" and that the Church must work to put an end to them.
    January 30, 2023

    ‘Being homosexual is not a crime – Pope Francis’ by Sir Ronald Sanders

  • According to results from the 2022 poll, LGBT acceptance in Guyana has soared since then, moving from 19% to 34.5% with an overall percentage of 72.4% of respondents stating that they accept and tolerate LGBT persons. Presenting at the launch of the findings last Tuesday, Dr. Marlon Anatol, a researcher with RMK Consulting Enterprise, noted that hatred of LGBT people had decreased by 50% from 25% in 2013 to 12% in 2022, which is quite significant.
    October 2, 2022

    New 2022 Poll Finds LGBT Acceptance Has Soared in Guyana

  • Same Sex Marriage
    July 11, 2022

    SASOD Guyana Welcomes Antigua Court Decision to Decriminalize Same-Sex Intimacy

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    June 6, 2022

    Bridgetown US Embassy Commemorating Pride Month

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    March 11, 2022

    “Straighten your Crown, Queen!” BCCI Empowerment Review from Richelle Lavine: On The Scene

  • The illumination of the Embassy coincides with two important turning points in the fight for LGBTQI+ rights: June 26, the anniversary of the historic Obergefell v. Hodges U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2015, which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples; and June 28, which marks the anniversary of the start of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which catalyzed the gay rights movement.
    June 26, 2021

    Pride Month Illumination of Bridgetown U.S. Embassy

  • Laws that criminalize consensual same-sex intimacy still exist in more than sixty countries across the globe -- and in most instances these laws are sustained by Church doctrine. The first Intimate Conviction conference in 2017 brought together many voices from across the globe to discuss the role of the church in maintaining these anti-sodomy statutes and to make recommendations on how to achieve righteous justice.
    December 4, 2020

    Barbadian clergy make sensible call for end to buggery laws

  • Anika Gray (MPP 2014) is a trained lawyer who was working in Jamaica on human rights litigation issues with an organisation called AIDS-Free World before coming to do the MPP.
    November 16, 2020

    Abuse of Power and the Constitutional Obligations of Private Companies

  • Photo at IACHR
    December 5, 2019

    Challenge to anti-sodomy law in Jamaica heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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