Beware: All of The Thgs Are Gay

Contents:

• BEWARE: ALL OF THE THGS ARE GAY
• BEG DARK-SKNED & GAY AMERI
• “IT'S JT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE WHE OR MIXED RACE AND GAY THAN BLACK AND GAY”: THE PERCEPTNS AND EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA ST. LUCIA

BEWARE: ALL OF THE THGS ARE GAY

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This guy named Jake had a lot of problems wh is next door neighbors bee they didn’t like gay people nor black people perd. As the police was showg up the next door neighbor wife went up to jake and said “I’m sorry, my hband and sons are very homophobic…. Is a project by The Ltle Black Gallery, curated by -founr Ghisla Pasl, to promote queer and gay now reprents more than 60 photographers om 25 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant threat.

BEG DARK-SKNED & GAY AMERI

Fally, the thors' fdgs dite that sk sha inti and regnal lotn fluence the psychologil health out of homophobia experienced by LGB people St.

Keywords: Caribbean, sk lor, lorism, homosexualy, homophobiaIntroductnFormer Brish Caribbean loni cludg Jamai, Barbados and the Bahamas (Gasks, 2013) have been the foc of psychologil rearch on sexual orientatn and homophobia the Caribbean regn (e.

This qualative study foc on this gap the lerature by explorg the perceptns and experienc of homophobia among lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals livg St Lucia, an Eastern Caribbean Island wh a Brish and French creolized, or Kwéyòl, lonial history, culture and language. Homophobia is fear or tolerance toward people who are attracted to others of the same-sex (Remafedi, 2002; Consolacn et al., 2004). This study foc on the tolerance aspect of homophobia, and nsirs the meang of sk plexn and lotn for the tolerance experienced by St.

“IT'S JT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE WHE OR MIXED RACE AND GAY THAN BLACK AND GAY”: THE PERCEPTNS AND EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA ST. LUCIA

However, across the Caribbean regn many Islands crimalize homosexual behavr (Human Rights Watch, 2004; Hicklg et al., 2009).

All homosexual acts are illegal Tridad and Tobago and Barbados; and male homosexualy cludg sodomy and public displays of affectn are illegal Guyana and Jamai but female homosexualy is not (Human Rights Watch, 2004; Sheller, 2012). Some law enforcement agenci the regn fail to protect LGB dividuals om homophobic hate crime; and some law enforcement officers themselv have been volved harassment and attacks on men and women perceived to be homosexual (Human Rights Watch, 2004; Becker, 2013; Cloonan, 2013; Stanislas, 2013a, b). Th, LGB people the Caribbean have long stggled for social, cultural, and legal acceptance and tolerance (Coat, 2010; Smh, 2011) prevalence of homophobia and homophobic abe Jamai and other Caribbean Islands has been lked to high rat of fay disownment, homelsns and lonels wh lol LGB muni (Bourne et al., 2012).