Laws criminalizing all forms of same-sex intimacy, whether private or public threatens progress towards ‘peace, security, democracy, human rights, development and cooperation ’in the Anglophone Caribbean. (Draft Declaration of San Salvador on Citizen Security in the America (2011).
Over the years, we have recognized that:
* Homophobic statements made by political and religious leaders as well as entertainers reinforce prejudice and discrimination against LGBTI persons;
* These statements drive the social exclusion of LGBTI persons, thereby preventing them from being active in civil, political and social life; and
*Impede LGBTI persons’ access to healthcare and justice,increase their vulnerability to poverty, homelessness, denial of employment, etc.
As a result, we have documented in the Anglophone Caribbean:
* HIV and AIDS prevalence of up to 30% among men who have sex with men (MSM), second only to sub-Saharan Africa;
* Physical and mental torture, including bullying in schools, harassment, employment discrimination, corrective rapes, murder, home invasions; and
* Denial of access to justice because of poor response by police to LGBTI complaints of abuses and the absence of legislation to protect them.
These laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy contradict the Organisation of American States’ commitment ‘to promote … a set of values, attitudes and modes of behavior based on respect for life, human beings and their dignity. (Draft Declaration of San Salvador on Citizen Security in the America (2011)
We therefore call on the leaders of CARICOM to guarantee the rights of all citizens by repealing all these laws and aggressively address the scourge of homophobia that undermines our collective security.
It is interesting that there is a group of people taking up for the rights of the homosexual people of the Caribbean, and I applaud their effort.
Human rights is human rights, and no right is above another. it cannot be OK for heterosexuals and lesbians to have the legal right to sexually express themselves and homosexuals not have that right… what is the difference? what is the crime if it is between two consenting adults? We must stop discriminating against a minority. The core of the Bible (the ten commandants) does not mention homosexuality, but it does mention about adultery… and this destroys homes and families, this is a crime and there is no law against that. Do the right thing and repeal the buggery laws.
“As men and women of conscience, we reject discrimination in general, and in particular discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity… Where there is tension between cultural attitudes and universal human rights, universal human rights must carry the day”— UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, New York, 10 December 2010.
That is why all you children gay and fraid to tell all you and all you sisters married to men who are gay and hiding behind them causing major distructions. Live and let live, if the caribbean ministers can have two young girls playing with each other for their own dirty satisfaction why can’t the laws be repealed, stop this blasted nonesense and let these people love their lives, anyway laws or no laws it will still happen.
Is not the USA where the OAS originated from supposed to be a christian nation meaning they believe in the bible which is the written words of GOD.What did the bible say concerning homosexuallity?These nasty and abominable men wants to commit the act of buggary refusing to marry a woman or make love to women and yet still wants the right to adopt children?If all the men and women of the world were to behave like these nasty people where the heck would they get children to adopt?Repent from your sins ye abominable ones before death catch bup with u.
Death might catch up with you first. Check yourself.
Dominica, Africa, the Caribbean, and from the beginning the world ave always had homosexual people. Before the religious right came to Dominicain the 80’s and taught Dominicans to hate, homosexuals were an accepted part of Dominican life. As a child I remember them with a parade on Carnival they were beautifull an fun to watch.I would say Dominicans were a more enlightened people in the 50 and sixties than we became in the 80 with the religios mania.
Plasedont spread rumours about God when u all chose to hate on homosexuals. The Caribbean homophobia was taught by the religious right, so again more brain washing of black people by white people.
When they remove the shackles physically they invented the buybull and taught us how to hate. They mix good with the false to teach black people to turn from the LOVE which represented the Creator, and black people have bouht into the HATE big time.
The word god came from germany Gott Wotan gott of creation and distrction, that is why Hitler would kill blacks, Jews nd homosexuals,in the name of the God.
Yet the ancient books taught a Creator who loved ALL his creation. There is none righteous no not one sa qui pkay faire sa ca faire se.
Anonymous, I write togive you support.
So much evil is done in God’s name it is mournful. Somebody taught somebody that God sees homosexuality as an abomination, and since then mostly men who are deep closet hiders, who enjoy the b word on their wives and women because they are fanatically afraid of it on men, are the first ones to cry out abomination.
What is more abomination thatn sticking you-know-what into your wife’s mouth? Worse yet,m into the mouth or posterior of a young virgin girl? Those men should examine themselves closely. Since it matters so much to them they should do research on the Bible as to what God said was the Sin-of-Sodom and why He destroyed Sodom.. Homosexuality was not mentioned so dont dispise the Bible for th wrongs that men are doing on members of humanity by false interpretation.
It is such a terrible crime inflicted on a growing percentage of humanity with no sign of let up. It is thinking like this that has some Dominicans firmly behind God’s back in their thinking. They refuse truth and reason. No good can come of that. They point on others to blame for their suffering and confusion, but they should really examine themselves. There is such a thing as Karma. Dont blame the Bible. Blame ignorance supreme.
ok i am in so way supportive of homosexuality or homosexualy bevahior, tendencies thinking etc.. However, i do believe that every individual’s human rights need to be respected. Bullying and physical harassment i cannot support regardless of your sexual preference.
Tell them Dominica says stupzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. They mess up their lands now they coming to pollute our region! We ain’t working on slave plantations anymore………..we are not stupid. If people want to be gay……let them travel to lands where they can be……………No Sir not in my land. NO way, no how.
DNO will not give this homosexual stuff a break. It is so very important to the editor or owner.
Please…..go preach your homosexuality somewhere else
ADMIN
Sometimes you guys make me laugh on days when I am down… Thanks… And no I am not gay.
Ohhhh brother!! Here again is another attempt by some confused, mind warped persons to justify the legalization of the filth called homosexuality. I trust the Caribbean governments continue to have the backbone to resist the arguments of such individuals and ensure that the abomination of homosexuality is never legalized in the region.
Homosexuality is nothing more than downright nastiness!!
iagree with u.
this is another act of satan to continue distroying this generation and those to come. this same sex mirrage and is set to distroy the fabric of the family and society. think of it if we did not have a mother and a father who came together to concive and bring us into this world where would we be. why should our government leaders stand today and legalise homosex and lesbeanism? why should we stand against God to please man. was it not God who created man and woman for the purpose of multiplying? if he God intended for man to be with man or woman with woman he would have createdtwo of the same kind.lets stand up for the truth and stand against this wicked act. if our government wants to allow it then its time to put them out. i say as a strong labour supporter the day that skerro and his time would agree to such wickedness it will be to there downfall and the distruction of our lovely nation. skerro please stand and dont bow to presure from fools
“I trust the Caribbean governments continue to have the backbone to resist the arguments of such individuals and ensure that the abomination of homosexuality is never legalized in the region.”
My friend, it is only in the independent English speaking former British West Indies that there are laws about homosexual acts. Put on us by the British to keep us natives in order.
There are no such laws in the French Antilles. the Dutch Antilles, the Spanish speaking Caribbean. And no such laws now in Montserrat, Anguilla,Turks and Caicos, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Bermuda.
So get your facts right. In the majority of the Caribbean states it is not an issue because in most of the region there is no legislation against it.