‘Young people are not standing for homophobia’ By LeahMahon_
Anti-gay attitudes in Africa and the Caribbean can be traced back to colonialism – but thankfully things are changing
Details around the motivation behind the killing remain unclear, but his tragic death sparked uproar from LBTQ activist groups after a series of violent deaths have blighted their community and made many question whether they could live without fear of reprisal because of their sexual orientation. “There are legal avenues now for issues like intimate partner violence or homophobic violence that you can actually approach,” she says.
Belize and Trinidad and Tobago also ruled for anti-gay laws to be taken out of their constitution. Caribbean countries like Dominica, Grenada and Jamaica still continue to criminalise gay relations. However, these laws are hardly reinforced on the islands.
She says that an older generation of Caribbean people are the ones still holding on to traditional values.
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