Jamaica

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Added on: 01/23/2019

Jamaican LGBTI Group Crowdfunding to Rebuild Rainbow House

01/22/2019

Describing itself as Jamaica’s oldest LGBT group, the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexual and Gays (J-Flag) has established a crowdfunding page as it seeks funds to rebuild its…

Global News

Added on: 01/05/2019

After a fire destroys Jamaica’s LGBT headquarters, 2019 deemed ‘year of rebuilding’

01/05/2019

On the night of December 30, 2018, a fire “of yet unknown origin” leveled the Kingston offices of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, which goes by its…

Global News

Added on: 01/02/2019

J-FLAG’s Headquarters Destroyed By Fire

12/31/2018

The fire department is now probing the cause of a blaze that destroyed the headquarters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lobby group, J-FLAG. The department…

Global News

Added on: 12/24/2018

Barbados LGBT community calls on Buju Banton to publicly denounce ‘Boom Bye Bye’

12/22/2018

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) community has called on Jamaican dancehall recording artist Buju Banton, fresh from serving a prison sentence, to publicly denounce one…

Global News

Added on: 12/19/2018

Fleeing persecution, LGBT+ migrants seek refuge in South America

12/19/2018

Growing up in Jamaica’s Montego Bay, Glenroy enjoyed an idyllic childhood – until his family discovered he was gay. They physically attacked him and threw him out…

Global News

Added on: 12/07/2018

Welcome to Jamaica – no longer ‘the most homophobic place on Earth’

12/06/2018

Early one late summer morning, more than 200 people gathered under the lush canopy of Hope Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica, for a breakfast party. It was all a far…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

CariFLAGS

Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities (CariFLAGS) is a regional nonprofit based in Trinidad and Tobago made up of leading LGBTI NGOs across…

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Added on: 02/01/2018

J-FLAG

J-FLAG operates under four broad objectives to ensure that an individual’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity are not used to discriminate against them. We work to increase…

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Added on: 01/31/2018

The Advocates for Human Rights (The Advocates) is a volunteer-based non-governmental organization committed to the impartial promotion and protection of international human rights standards and the rule…

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Added on: 01/31/2018

Human Rights Watch

The Human Rights Watch lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights program has fought for over a decade to end human rights violations based on sexual orientation…

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Added on: 01/31/2018

Human Rights First

LGBT rights are human rights, period. Human Rights First works to ensure that these rights are incorporated into the United States’ foreign policy agenda and advanced on…

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Added on: 01/31/2018

Advocates for Youth

Advocates for Youth works across the U.S. and developing world to advance youth sexual health and rights to further a vision of a society in which all…