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Contents:

• BARBADOS HIGH COURT DECRIMALIZ GAY SEX
• BARBADOS’ TOP URT STRIK DOWN LAWS THAT CRIMALIZE GAY SEX
• BARBADOS’ TOP URT REPEALS LAWS THAT CRIMALIZE GAY SEX
• IS BARBADOS GAY-FRIENDLY? | UPDATED JANUARY 2023
• GAY LIFE BARBADOS
• GAY RIGHTS AND BARBADOS POLICS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

BARBADOS HIGH COURT DECRIMALIZ GAY SEX

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While laws crimalizg same-sex timacy the Caribbean are rarely enforced, they are broad spe, vaguely word, and serve to legimize bias and hostily toward lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people.

BARBADOS’ TOP URT STRIK DOWN LAWS THAT CRIMALIZE GAY SEX

A 2018 Human Rights Watch report documented discrimatn, vlence, and prejudice agast LGBT people seven island natns the Eastern Caribbean, cludg Barbados, that crimalized gay sex. Image source, Getty ImagThe High Court Barbados has stck out their laws that crimalised gay prev laws om 1992, while rarely voked, mand a life sentence for those found guilty of havg nsensual same-sex High Court Barbados has stck out their laws that crimalised gay prev laws, while rarely voked, mand a life sentence for those found guilty of havg nsensual same-sex relatns. "In short, [the lg means] we n no longer prosecute persons unr the two sectns, " he said, addg that charg for offenc relatg to nsensual gay sex uld no longer be mataed.

"This "historic" lg was scribed as "a signifint step towards protectg the human rights and digny of LBGT people Barbados, " acrdg to Luisa Cabal, of the jot Uned Natns programme on HIV/ add that "will also strengthen the untry's HIV rponse by helpg to rce stigma and discrimatn faced by LGBT people and creasg the uptake of HIV ttg, treatment and preventn servic" least 66 untri the world still crimalise gay sex, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. A top urt Barbados has stck down lonial-era laws that crimalize gay sex, beg the third natn the nservative Caribbean regn to do so this lg issued Monday by the Barbados high urt is a pivotal moment for activists and non-prof anizatns who have long fought agast such laws on the eastern Caribbean island, cludg one that mands up to a life sentence for gay men found guilty of havg sex.

The ty island natn has recently begun unpickg s lonial-era homosexualy laws the face of growg cricism for s poor human rights rerd. Opposn senator Caswell Franklyn acced the ernment of sendg mixed signals on homosexualy and suggted was tryg to “sneak [the legislatn] through the back door”.

BARBADOS’ TOP URT REPEALS LAWS THAT CRIMALIZE GAY SEX

By regnisg same-sex civil unns the ernment is enuragg people to break the law, he ntend, bee homosexualy is technilly still illegal Barbados. This report foc on the experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people small island stat of the Eastern Caribbean.

But they share one mon tra: they all give social and legal sanctn for discrimatn, vlence, stigma, and prejudice agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals. Exampl of legal measur that have been taken to addrs vlence and discrimatn clu: 2012 Argenta beme the first state to pass a genr regnn law based entirely on self-intifitn[15]; 2010 Brazil enacted the Natnal Human Rights Actn Plan (NHRAP), which stipulat specific measur and objectiv to addrs vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty[16]; siarly, 2014 Mexi tablished specific teams and uns to ensure that homophobic and transphobic hate crim are vtigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and law enforcement officials have been traed acrdgly[17]; and 2016 Uguay took several measur to addrs employment discrimatn and create job opportuni for margalized trans people, cludg a specific ll for trans ndidat for vanci at the Mistry of Social Development and wh the “Uguay Trabaja” programme. The Organizatn of Amerin Stat (OAS) and the Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights (IACHR) have also taken steps to addrs human rights vlatns perpetrated agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) persons the Ameris.

IS BARBADOS GAY-FRIENDLY? | UPDATED JANUARY 2023

In 2015, Jamain activist Mrice Tomlson filed a challenge agast the ernments of Belize and Tridad and Tobago to overturn laws that on their face seek to prevent gay people om enterg their untri. The current immigratn laws Tridad & Tobago and Belize bar "unsirable” persons om enterg—a list that clus homosexuals, prostut, and members of other margalized groups.

[40] The Caribbean Court of Jtice ultimately dismissed the ‘gay travel ban’ se, clarg that the laws, while discrimatory nature, have not been ed practice. In Febary 2017, Jason Jon, a gay rights advote, filed a legal challenge Tridad and Tobago agast laws crimalizg homosexual nduct. Charl, a 24-year-old gay man om Antigua and Barbuda, told Human Rights Watch he would never be openly affectnate public wh another male.

GAY LIFE BARBADOS

For example, 2000, Elephant Man’s “A Nuh Fi Wi Flt, ”[56] urged listeners to “When yuh hear a Sodome get raped/but a fi wi flt/’s wrong/two women gonna hock up na bed/that’s two Sodom dat fi ad” (“When you hear a lbian gettg raped/’s not our flt/’s wrong/two women bed/that’s two sodom who should be ad”), Beenie Man[57] sgs, “I’m dreamg of a new Jamai, e to execute all the gays, ” and Babycham and Bounty Killer’s[58] enurag “Bun a fire pon a kuh pon mister fagoty, ears ah ben up and a wce unr agony, poop man fi drown a yawd man philosophy” (“burn gay men ‘til they wce agony, gay men should drown, that’s the yard man’s philosophy”). As the followg ttimoni show, those who are known to be gay or lbian, or merely perceived to be, have a realistic fear of beg social pariahs, alienated by fay and muny. [Whenever] I did somethg feme [they would] jump on me…Mother was a very homophobic person, she asked me to change the way I talked and walked, I didn’t like ….

He was also mdful of the fact that an openly gay iend of his, aged 18, had been beaten up and had bottl thrown at him by fay members and villagers.

To avoid stigma and huiatn, and some s to spare their fai om sufferg the same, LGBT people told Human Rights Watch that both gay men and lbian women mataed relatnships wh the oppose sex, sometim gettg married, while secretly ntug same-sex relatnships. Vcent and the Grenad, told Human Rights Watch: “I was 19 when I started to work for my own dollar, I me out and told my grandmother and my s that I was gay.

GAY RIGHTS AND BARBADOS POLICS

Kts and Nevis, told Human Rights Watch that wh her muny prejudice ns ep and people openly speculate as to whether her son will be gay bee he is beg raised by a lbian. In 2009 the Holy See participated a panel discsn at the UN New York and livered the followg statement about crimalizatn of homosexual nduct. The Holy See oppos all grave vlatns of human rights agast homosexual persons and is opposed to discrimatory penal legislatn which unrm the herent digny of the human person.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

As stated durg the bate of the General Assembly last year, the Holy See ntu to oppose all grave vlatns of human rights agast homosexual persons, such as the e of the ath penalty, torture and other cel, human and gradg punishment. The Holy See also oppos all forms of vlence and unjt discrimatn agast homosexual persons, cludg discrimatory penal legislatn which unrm the herent digny of the human person. As raised by some of the panellists today, the murr and abe of homosexual persons are to be nonted on all levels, pecially when such vlence is perpetrated by the State.