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Added on: 11/10/2024

On Martinique, an LGBT association campaigns in the midst of a social crisis

11/09/2024

Martinique is called the Island of Flowers, but it is currently undergoing an intense social crisis that combines LGBTphobic violence and painful inflation. Martinique is part of…

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Added on: 11/06/2024

Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians

11/05/2024

Lesbians and queer women in Haiti are living in fear after notorious gang leader Krisla, who is believed to be behind numerous heinous kidnappings, expressly threatened to…

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Added on: 09/09/2024

Transgender Student Proudly Wears Male Uniform in Havana School

09/08/2024

Yumisleidi Rodríguez, a transgender student in Cuba, proudly shared on social media their ability to choose and wear the male school uniform at their educational center in Havana,…

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Added on: 09/01/2024

Dominican Court Reviews Anti-Gay Sex Laws

08/30/2024

The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court will hear a challenge on August 30, 2024, to laws that criminalize consensual same-sex conduct by officers in the police and armed…

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Added on: 08/31/2024

Dominican Republic: Court Reviews Laws Against Gay Sex

08/30/2024

The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court will hear a challenge on August 30, 2024, to laws that criminalize consensual same-sex conduct by officers in the police and armed…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

LGBTQ asylum-seekers chase a life of safety and peace after rape and death threats

08/13/2024

Michelle Carranza, 22, did not want to be another trans woman murdered in her native Honduras. “They don’t accept us there. They kill us, they discriminate us,…

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Added on: 07/29/2024

Pride organisers call for laws to protect LGBTQIA

07/28/2024

Organisers of Sunday’s PrideTT parade emphasised the need for legislation to protect members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA) community from discrimination. Almost…

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Added on: 07/24/2024

Martinique: Dancer’s shimmy triggers town council into blocking Pride Month events

07/23/2024

In June, the LGBT+ association Kap Caraïbe in the French Caribbean island of Martinique had to cancel many of the events it planned as part of Pride…

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Added on: 07/20/2024

Marriage equality comes to Aruba and Curacao; South Korea sees progress on LGBTQ unions

07/19/2024

The global push to recognize the rights of LGBTQ couples continued in separate parts of the world this month when the Dutch Supreme Court ordered the legalization…

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Added on: 07/06/2024

LGBT Rights Under Pressure in Bukele’s El Salvador

07/05/2024

Hand in hand, Andrea and Fiorella attend an improvised mass in the garage of a house in San Salvador. There they say they don’t fear being discriminated…

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Added on: 07/03/2024

Thousands March for LGBT Rights at Pride 2024 in Costa Rica

07/02/2024

Thousands of Costa Ricans marched through the streets of San José for Pride 2024. Participants walked along Paseo Colón in defense of the rights of the LGBT…

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Added on: 06/30/2024

Guatemala asks LGBT pride marchers to have ‘good manners’ after bid to ban event

06/29/2024

Guatemala’s top court on Friday issued a resolution that called for “good manners” and authorities to protect moral values at this year’s annual LGBT pride parade, after…

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Added on: 06/29/2024

Cuba’s first transgender athlete shows the progress and challenges faced by LGBTQ people

06/28/2024

Ely Malik Reyes stepped onto the cordless platform and began delivering powerful punches and spectacular flying kicks against his combatant. He lost the fight, but won a…

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Added on: 06/20/2024

Martinique : Christian lesbian finds growing acceptance

06/19/2024

The presence of homosexuals within the Catholic Church in Martinique remains a subject of debate, both among church authorities and the local LGBT+ community. It’s a topic that Chloé Socias knows well. In…

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Added on: 06/19/2024

LGBTQ migrants face ‘triple vulnerability’ as a group in Mexico aims to help them

06/19/2024

Dayling Ramírez says that each day that passes is a challenge to overcome because, despite having survived the persecution of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the abuses…

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Added on: 05/25/2024

Dominica LGBT activist says queer people still aren’t free

05/24/2024

Dominica’s High Court has struck down the nation’s anti-sodomy law, but homophobia remains pervasive. “The law has changed in Dominica, but it will still take time to…

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Added on: 05/22/2024

Sint Maarten’s first openly trans woman says attitudes are changing

05/21/2024

Being trans in the Caribbean today is easier than in the past, helped by the visibility and recognition of transgender people in Northern countries, as well as…

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Added on: 05/12/2024

LGTB community in Cuba marches for their rights and in solidarity with Palestinians

05/12/2024

Hundreds of activists for sexual diversity in Cuba held a demonstration in the streets of the capital on Saturday, both to celebrate the update of the laws…

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Added on: 05/06/2024

Shortages of doctors and drugs bedevil LGBT+ Haitians — and everyone else

05/05/2024

As Haiti endures chaos, shortages, inflation and gang warfare, the LGBTQ community shares the nation’s agony, even as it has challenges and plans of its own. Under…

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Added on: 04/23/2024

Dominica court overturns anti-sodomy law

04/22/2024

The High Court of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica has ruled that Dominica’s law against consensual same-sex intimacy is unconstitutional. The judgement against the anti-sodomy law…

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Added on: 04/02/2024

LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps

04/01/2024

Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag in her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the…

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Added on: 03/31/2024

LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps

03/30/2024

Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag in her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the…

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Added on: 03/14/2024

Haiti: Port-au-Prince and its LGBT+ community face the risk of genocide

03/12/2024

The situation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is worsening by the hour, a crisis that has been met with a staggering indifference on the part of many nations. The…

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Added on: 03/11/2024

Panamanian LGBTQ Groups Urge Presidential Candidates to Support Same-Sex Marriage

03/10/2024

Several LGBTQ groups in Panama asked presidential candidates on Thursday to commit to recognizing same-sex marriage, which was rejected a year ago by the Panamanian justice system. About…

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Added on: 02/27/2024

Bringing Haiti together at a Cap-Haïtien voodoo festival

02/26/2024

While Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is plagued with unending violence, the north of the country seems to be holding its own, attracting numerous cultural events that can no…

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Added on: 02/18/2024

Deep disappointment as St Vincent High Court fails to overturn discriminatory anti-LGBT laws

02/17/2024

The Human Dignity Trust is deeply disappointed by today’s decision from the High Court in St Vincent and the Grenadines, that upholds the criminalisation of consensual, same-sex…

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Added on: 02/17/2024

St. Vincent upholds laws criminalizing gay sex in Caribbean island nation in setback for activists

02/16/2024

A top court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines upheld laws on Friday that criminalize gay sex, a blow to activists who have long decried the violence…

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Added on: 02/09/2024

For LGBT asylum-seekers, coming to the U.S. is hardly the end of a harrowing journey

02/08/2024

Located in the suburbs of Tijuana, Mexico, the Casa Arco Iris migrant shelter is unassuming. That’s on purpose. Not so long ago, its exterior was graffitied with a homophobic slur….

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Added on: 02/09/2024

Letter of the Day | Unmasking the anti-gender movement

02/08/2024

In the heart of the Caribbean, where the rhythms of reggae and the warmth of the sun paint the cultural landscape, a troubling undercurrent threatens to erode…

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Added on: 01/17/2024

Lives have been blocked by a wall separating Haiti and the Dominican Republic

01/16/2024

The lives of both gay and straight residents of the island of Santo Domingo / Hispaniola are being impacted by a new border wall — the second…