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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Caribbean Net News GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- A former Seattleite who was taken to a police station last week for kissing his boyfriend at a local bar has been issued an official apology by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism. “I apologise for your upsetting experience and want to assure you that the Cayman Islands is a welcoming jurisdiction to all people,” Pilar Bush, the Caribbean island's director of tourism, wrote to Chandler. “What happened to you was an isolated incident, and is not representative of Cayman. We know that thousands of gay and lesbian visitors travel to...
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Thursday, March 27
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Source: BBC News , RIA Novosti There is a Castro who is fighting to introduce radical changes in Cuba. Not the new president, Raul, although he has promised to push through "structural and conceptual" changes to this communist island in the Caribbean. It is Raul's daughter, Mariela Castro. As head of the government-funded National Center for Sex Education, she is trying to change people's attitudes towards minority groups in the community. A draft gay rights bill first introduced after the 1959 Cuban revolution, will be considered by lawmakers in Havana in June, Mexican media...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: Toronto Star and New York Times Mandeville police officer Michael Hayden seeks asylum in Canada photo: New York Times A Jamaican police officer says he's living in fear after coming out as a gay man and hopes to come to Canada where he can safely speak up on behalf of other gay Jamaicans. Michael Hayden, who has been on the police force for four years, said other officers routinely attacked and abused him after becoming suspicious of his sexual preferences. A couple of weeks back, a local tabloid, The Jamaica Star, ran a screaming headline when Hayden, disturbed by the attack on the...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Washington Blade , Jamaica Gleaner , and Radio Jamaica Leaders of the US-based Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) led a demonstration in Miami on Thursday to protest a series of reported anti-gay murders and gay-bashing incidents in Jamaica. The church also sponsored protests at consulates in New York, Toronto and Philadelphia. In response to the protests, some leaders of churches in Jamaica issued a strong condemnation of homosexuality. Rev. Nancy Wilson, MCC’s leader, and a contingent of religious leaders from the MCC’s Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale met with Jamaican Consulate...
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Thursday, February 14
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Source: CBC News and PinkNews A prominent member of gay rights group J-FLAG, Jamaica's Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, is claiming refugee status in Canada. Gareth Henry, who spoke at Pride London last year about the plight of lesbian and gay people in his country, told CBC News that 13 of his friends have been killed in the last four years. One 22-year-old friend who was suspected of being gay was chased by a mob, Henry told CBC News. The only place he could run to was the harbour. He couldn't swim. "Everyone," said Henry, "stood and watched him drown." On...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Express Gay News and Jamaica Gleaner The leader of the Metropolitan Community Churches, a worldwide assembly of gay and lesbian congregants, is calling for an International Day of Action Feb. 14 in response to a bloody attack against three gay men in Jamaica. Rev. Nancy Wilson and leaders of the MCC are gathering GLBT supporters and human rights activists to protest at Jamaican embassies around the world. “We’re just horrified,” Wilson said of the Jan. 29 attack, which left two men seriously injured with machete wounds and one man presumed to be dead. The attack also prompted a letter of...
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