Sat Lucia - GlobalGayz

Contents:

• GAY LIFE SAT LUCIA
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SAT LUCIA
• GAY NIGHTLIFE ST. LUCIA
• GAYS SAY ‘WE ARE HERE TO STAY!’
• IS ST. LUCIA GAY FRIENDLY? - ST. LUCIA FOM
• BEG GAY ST LUCIA
• OPENLY GAY AND PROUD OF !

GAY LIFE SAT LUCIA

Any thoughtful rearch or unrstandg of LGBT life Sat Lucia is cloud over by the May 2011 beatg and robbery of three gay men by five armed homophobic and vlent lol thugs.

News of the attack went viral and untls gay and straight people were outraged and vented their anger and disbelief on the Net and prt.

TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SAT LUCIA

To get around that awful event and terme what LGBT life is like today ’s important to know what set the stage for that homophobic asslt: male homosexualy is illegal, a crimal offense St Lucia. (However, female homosexual acts are not mentned sce lonial lawmakers held women low teem and not worth mentng.

The homophobic Catholic posn on homosexualy is well known. When 1979, Sat Lucia beme an pennt untry wh the Brish Commonwealth of Natns, the ernment system stayed the same and few laws, if any, changed, cludg the on agast gays–to the gree that Sat Lucia was the only UN member the Ameris to formally oppose the 2011 UN human rights non-discrimatn claratn to clu sexual orientatn and genr inty.

GAY NIGHTLIFE ST. LUCIA

Christian and crimal–a toxic batn for ntued discrimatn, bigotry and hostily any untry, ma worse by the small island’s tight terrory (238 sq mi; 617 sq km) and homogeno populatn (about 175, 000). Ai, past and prent, has never been kd to homosexual people. The Upsi of Gay Life St Lucia.

Leadg the efforts to brg equaly to the island is the ‘Uned and Strong’ (U&S) gay rights anizatn, found 2001.

On their webse and their YouTube vio U&S advote for equal rights, eedom of inty and public exprsn on behalf of MSM and WSW gay people of St Lucia. “We hope to see discrimatory laws stck off the books; to not have our children tght that homosexualy is abhorrent and viant behavur; to love eely and walk the streets whout fear of rogatn and physil asslt; to not have our reers and livelihoods pend on limg our self-exprsn. “U&S ntu to strive to make Sat Lucians unrstand that ntrary to what they exprs or believe, beg gay is not a wtern ventn but a human realy and that acceptance is the only way forward for the sake of everyone society, gay or straight.

GAYS SAY ‘WE ARE HERE TO STAY!’

3-“we hosted an ‘ternatnal dialogue’ nference this Febary (2012) to discs lbian, gay, bi and trans issu – workg llaboratn wh ARC Internatnal and Envisng Global LGBT Human Rights Project… attend by over 85 people om the Caribbean, North Ameri, Ai, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Lat Ameri, and Europe. We also had the chance to share and velop strategi about makg gay sex legal globally while buildg solid lks between natnal, regnal and ternatnal advoci, allowg to back each other up and work more closely together.

4-“we sent Kena Placi to reprent U&S at the World Pri gay rights summ London July.

5-on IDAHO day (Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia), May 17, U&S bravely led a handful of members of the LGBT muny and their supporters St. AAD works wh mory groups such as men who have sex wh men (MSMs) to advote for their basic right to “live and love as they want” whout fear of legal or social retributn or rceratn sce homosexualy is a crimal offense the untry. AAD is a non-prof anizatn, started 2000 wh the dntg missn to overe the stigma of both HIV and homosexualy through tn.

IS ST. LUCIA GAY FRIENDLY? - ST. LUCIA FOM

Most of the MSM do not intify as gay or even bisexual sce they believe beg married protects their inty and self-image. Didier also cri the discrimatory preachg of homosexualy as s by the Christian church, which ntribut no small way to the homophobia facg the efforts of the AIDS Actn Foundatn. Complitg matters, Didier said an terview, soc-enomic class plays a part people’s reactns to homosexualy.

“We know that society operat on different tiers: ‘up there’ homosexualy is accepted, ” she says. “Look at certa people who are gay here who have tablished profsns. And sce macho guy are ually not seen as gay their ‘bravado’ is also ver for beg on the ‘down-low’.

Worse is when a macho guy vents his secury agast a spected or known LGBT person as happened the recent past when a gay rights lear was threatened wh ath for beg outspoken. Mentned at the begng of this report was the btal attack by five lols on three gay tourists. The armed tsn volved robbery but also was an effort to show macho ‘superry’ over the unarmed gay tourists by shoutg homophobic threats sults and slurs.

BEG GAY ST LUCIA

This attack follow upon at least three murrs of gay men over recent years; none of the killers were nvicted sce they were allowed to e the ‘gay panic’ fense. (Funny how the killers’ macho power seemed to have dissolved “ panic” at the moment of murr, the prence of a harmls verbal gay ‘e-on’.

Gay Life on the Streets.

OPENLY GAY AND PROUD OF !

But there is ‘gaydar’ that sensiz gays to one another and unavoidably iends jo wh other iends to a muny that is not likely to be easily noticed.

Most LGBT socializg untri that have laws agast gays is done behd closed doors private hom or blend to mixed crowds at clubs and rtrants. Gay-iendly Boat Yard Pub is said to draw worldly-wise clientele to water’s-edge lotn for sunset happy-hour drks and fe dg day and night.

A send optn is suggted by well-known gay travel journalist Andrew Colls: Le Sport Rort. Lucia, the upsle, all-clive Le Sport rort has long had a followg wh gays and lbians – ’s an adults-only, spa-oriented property that’s perfect for a strs-relievg vatn. Beyond the qut for gay rights and legalizatn of the liftyle, and away om the gay-fortable eateri and sleepg plac.