For almost 150 years, to be gay in St. Kitts and Nevis was to be criminalised. What the colonial authorities inhumanely labelled “the abominable crime of buggery” has been part of law, with the effect of punishing, stigmatising, discriminating against and excluding LGBT people for who they are.
How Eastern Caribbean activists developed successful strategy to defeat laws which criminalised LGBT people miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Guyana s transgender community calls for protection under anti-discrimination laws miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 2018, the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that an 1893 Guyana law that prohibited cross-dressing was unconstitutional. Last August, lawmakers formally removed that section from the law books. But for Ms John and other transgender women, this has not been enough to transform the way they navigate social spaces. Intolerant attitudes remain, with sometimes dire implications
Guyana Trans United is a local Guyanese NGO that works primarily on the rights and protections of Trans persons. What started as an observation of need in the early 2000s, transformed into a commitment to advocate for Trans persons after one fateful