By Vidyaratha Kissoon (2013 is an tertg year the Caribbean for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) equaly. Belize, Guyana,
Contents:
- FROM MADNS TO MASTREAM – “GAY RIGHTS” GUYANA, PART I
- FROM MADNS TO MASTREAM – “GAY RIGHTS” GUYANA (PART 2)
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- CHRISTIAN AND LGBT GROUPS HAVE BROUGHT THE BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS TO THE CARIBBEAN
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
FROM MADNS TO MASTREAM – “GAY RIGHTS” GUYANA, PART I
LGBT Rights Guyana: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights guyana *
Homosexualy⚢✖ Male illegal, female uncertaCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
FROM MADNS TO MASTREAM – “GAY RIGHTS” GUYANA (PART 2)
* gay rights guyana *
Achievg equal rights, non-discrimatn and protectn om vlence and abe for lns of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) persons has been a remarkable journey of urage, solidary, and activism sce the adoptn of the Universal Declaratn of Human Rights. One of the first movements began June 1969 when persons took to the streets to prott police raids at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy. One of the raids sparked six days of rts, now known as the Stonewall Rts, which bolstered the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay rights guyana *
Over the years, nsistent advocy and public monstratns have led to discsns on gay rights that eventually triggered chang perceptns and attus towards LGBTIQ+ persons. Some of the UN’s actns range om the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr by the World Health Organizatn 1990, to UN rolutns adopted to protect agast vlence and discrimatns, to supportg ernment amendments of natnal nstutns. Decrimalizg homosexualy is a cril first step to protect the rights of LGBTIQ + persons and facilate fairns and equaly before the law.
By Vidyaratha Kissoon(2013 is an tertg year the Caribbean for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) equaly. In 2002, a Universy of Guyana Social Work stunt, Clayton Newman, cid to do some rearch on young gay men he met Geetown, which he agreed to share wh persons who were terted activism. While crics of the ‘gay rights’ movement like to say that is ‘Northern’ and ‘Imperialist’, the movement Guyana uld most likely be said to have been spired by events South Ai and April 2003, the first public fom was anised on Sexual Orientatn as a Fundamental Right, and May 2003, the polil parti agreed to rtore the discsn about sexual orientatn wh all of the other rights bills that had been important velopment durg this time was the Universy of Guyana stunts, who cid to mpaign for the cln of sexual orientatn as a fundamental right Guyana’s nstutn.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The Roman Catholic church Guyana issued a posn 2001 opposg discrimatn any form while statg their objectn to gay marriage.
By Vidyaratha Kissoon2013 is an tertg year the Caribbean for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) equaly. In 2004, Caribbean and other LGBTI activists, ncerned wh the growg populary of homophobic lyrics, iated the ‘Stop Murr Mic’ Campaign to brg prsure to bear on private and public sector groups the Caribbean, North Ameri and Europe to rpond to the lyrics.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Guyane joed the mpaign by wrg to the Ethnic Relatns Commissn sce they believed “that sexual orientatn is one of the forms of diversy a plural society and that therefore the ERC holds a nstutnal mandate to enurage rpect for the rights of gay and lbian people Guyana. SASOD’s work and imagativens reflect the bt Caribbean polil and cultural tradns and they make me proud to be a gay Caribbean man. McIntosh beme the first Caribbean legal scholar to speak to the need chang, an article published the Barbados Advote “Homosexualy: A nstutnal qutn” while he was Dean of the Faculty of Law at UWI Cave Hill.
CHRISTIAN AND LGBT GROUPS HAVE BROUGHT THE BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS TO THE CARIBBEAN
In November, 2005, the recently opened Oasis Cafe agreed to host an eveng of “Readgs om the Spectm: Lbian and Gay Wrgs”.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
Whenever Print Jago was asked about the issue of law reform, his rponse was always amed the posn of ‘no discrimatn’ even as he remaed non-mtal on law March 2011, Cabet Secretary Dr Luncheon noted “Cabet reflected on social rpons to homosexualy and reerated s posn of not supportg discrimatn of those whose sexual orientatn offend ntemporary social norms and also nsequently any advocy of such liftyl.