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Judgement and Pride - Caribbean IRN Update April, May, June 2018
L: Cartoon Kaieteur News, 3 June, 2018; R Extract from Judgement in Jason Jones vs AG of Trinidad and Tobago and othersJudgement On 12 April, 2018 Trinidad & Tobago, Justice Devindra Rampersad...
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LGBTIQ Guyanese talk about families
The Guyana Rainbow Foundation (GuyBow) held a symposium ‘LGBTIQ Family Life Matters’ on 30 May, 2018 at the Herdmanston Lodge. The symposium was held as part of the Guyana Pride Festival 2018...
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Transgender is not my only identity - Gulliver (Quincy) McEwan
Photographer : Orpheao GriffithBy Rae WiltshireRae Wiltshire is an award-winning playwright, theatre director and short story writer. His play “Creative Burial Ground” and short story, “Me Fuss...
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`Tolerance is for starters, but I prefer acceptance’ - Alessandra Hereman
Photographer : Oprheao GriffithBy Alessandra HeremanAlessandra Hereman is a young transgender woman who is studying at the University of Guyana“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our...
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I am Isabella - Profile of Isabella (Seyon) Persaud
Isabella (Seyon) Persaud is one of the litigants who brought the constitutional challenge to Guyana's Cross Dressing laws.
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‘As a transgender person in Guyana, you feel you’re in a jail yard’
Photographer : Orpheao Griffithby Rae Wiltshire(Pheches (Joseph) Fraser is a litigant in the challenge to the cross-dressing law of Guyana. Rae Wiltshire is an award-winning playwright, theatre...
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Angel Clarke: “Transgender persons must be independent”
by Rae Wiltshire Angel Clarke is an independent woman. She has her own home, has her own transportation, and runs a successful catering business – despite the discrimination and challenges that she...
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Pride, Prayers and Law - Caribbean IRN Update July, August 2018
Left (Snap shot from Guybow/Sherlina Nageer; Right - George Alleyne via CaribbeanLifeNewsPride Pride celebrations continued in the Caribbean in Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados and Belize. The...
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Judging Difference - Caribbean IRN Update - September, October, November,...
Second Photo (Guyana Trans United) - Protest in 2016 against the actions of Magistrate Dylon BessDifference In November, 2018 the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that the cross-dressing laws in...
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Transgender visibility, Gay Marriage - Caribbean IRN Update January,...
Guyana Trans United leads March for Transgender Visibility - 31st March, 2019 , Georgetown, Guyana"Transgender rights are human rights" the marchers called as they walked past the Brickdam Police...
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Pride in the Caribbean and changing times - Caribbean IRN Update April, May,...
L - Image from BBC News, R - Image from Nation News BarbadosPride in the Caribbean Police arrested LGBT Cubans who decided to march against homophobia , after the Cuban government cancelled the...
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Men in dresses - Caribbean IRN Update July to December 2019
Image from article "Men in Dresses - and a village is divided," The Sunday Chronicle, Sept 5 1971.Charlot Jeudy, HaitiCharlot Jeudy, leader of Kouraj was found dead on November 25, 2019. "Men in...
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LGBTQ+ and Caribbean politics - Caribbean IRN Update January, February 2020
Politics In Jamaica, the People's National Party affirmed "its commitment to non-discrimination based on class, colour, creed or sexual orientation," as it apologised for the homopohobic comments...
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Dying, living, celebrating - Caribbean IRN Update March, April, May, June 2020
Screen shot of Map of Caribbean LGBTIQ+ organisationsDying, Living Colin Robinson writes about Learning to Die about the pain of cancer and dying from it. Newsday in Trinidad shares Colin'In his own...
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Caribbean IRN Update - July, August, September, October 2020
Message from Jamaica Gaily NewsLawIn Barbados, there is talk that Barbados will recognise same-sex marriage as they relinquish the Queen. They seem to want to do this without decriminalizing sodomy....
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Loss and resilience - Caribbean IRN Update- November, December 2020
LossThe LGBTIQ++ community in Trinidad & Tobago mourned the loss of Anthony Medina who as CAISO noted "made indelible contributions to LGBTI community and dress-up culture in T&T,"Launch of...
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We are wired to love - Caribbean IRN Update January, February, March 2021
We are wired to love.."..we're wired to love"Colin Robinson shared in one of his many discussions on love. Colin Robinson - activist, poet, hopeful citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and...
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All male weddings, promises, Pride - Caribbean IRN Update April, May, June 2021
L - From Sunday Graphic 12 July, 1959; R - Demerara Daily Chronicle 28 September , 1884 All male weddingsThe Demerara Daily Chronicle (Guyana) of 28 September, 1884 had a story "An Extraordinary Story...
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Changing costly laws? - Caribbean IRN Update July, August, September 2021
Extract from EL MATRIMONIO Y LA UNIÓN DE HECHO AFECTIVA COMO FUENTES DE CONSTITUCIÓN DE LAS FAMILIASChanging costly laws 4.2 billion US Dollars is the cost of homophobia in the Caribbean according to a...
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Caribbean Republics and homophobic laws : Caribbean IRN Update October,...
LossBrandy Rodriguez President of the Trinidad and Tobago Transgender Coalition died and activist groups remembered her work on HIV/AIDS and on dealing with other forms of discrimination. Republics and...
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