Saturday, September 5, 2020. New York City – Due to COVID-19, the 2020 West Indian Day Carnival/Caribbean Parade in Brooklyn, New York City was cancelled.
The Caribbean Parade on Eastern Parkway is one of the best parades in New York City. I have been covering the parade for many years. Click the link to see photos from past years: https://www.javiersoriano.com/2020/08/25/2020-caribbean-parade-cancelled/
Many of the Caribbean people who attend the Caribbean Carnival (which last for several days) are lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, queer.
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage is legal in the United States of America. Caribbean LGBTQ people can legally marry in New York City.
The 13 independent countries in the Caribbean are: Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, The Bahamas.
Cuba and LGBTQ rights.
Same sex marriage is illegal in Cuba. In 2010, the Cuban government made it illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people. In 2008, the government announced that gender confirmation surgeries would be made free under the country’s universal health care program. Cuba is in a region where some countries still have anti-sodomy laws. Cuba has made considerable advances in LGBTQ rights in recent years, but more needs to be done.
Jamaica and LGBTQ rights.
Same sex marriage is illegal in Jamaica. amnesty.org said in 2019, “Jamaica continued to criminalize same-sex relations and failed to pass comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation. The NGO J-FLAG continued to receive reports of discrimination, exclusion, violent attacks, displacement and police abuse targeted against LGBTI people. Transgender people remained unable to legally change their gender markers and name.”
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and LGBTQ rights.
“Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. The Penal Code makes same-sex acts illegal with a punishment up to 10 years in prison, although the law is not enforced and is being challenged in the courts. In addition, it outlaws the practice of “buggery” (which is anal and oral sex), whether homosexual or heterosexual and irrespective of whether the act was consensual. The country’s laws also do not address discrimination or harassment on account of sexual orientation or gender identity, nor recognize same-sex unions in any form, whether it be marriage or partnerships. Households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for any of the same rights given to opposite-sex married couples,” says Wikipedia.org
Saint Lucia and LGBTQ rights.
Same sex marriage is illegal in Saint Lucia. “Same-sex sexual activity is illegal according to the Criminal Code of St Lucia. According to Section 132, ‘Gross Indecency’ is a criminal offence, punishable by a prison sentence of up to ten years. Gross indecency is defined as a sexual act other than intercourse, excluding acts conducted by a man and a woman in a private place. Section 133 states that ‘Buggery’ is punishable by a prison sentence to up to ten years, or life if practiced without consent. A 2010 report authored by a range of Caribbean LGBTI organisations, states that same-sex activity between consenting adults has not been prosecuted in the region ‘in recent time’, but these laws nevertheless create an environment in which human rights violations against LGBTI communities occur.”_refugeelegalaidinformation.org
Trinidad and Tobago and LGBTQ rights.
Same sex marriage is illegal in Trinidad and Tobago. On April 12, 2018, the High Court of Justice in Trinidad and Tobago ruled that the country’s laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy between consenting adults were unconstitutional. It was a win for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) women and men in the country. Prior to 2018, Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1986 (strengthened in 2000) criminalized “buggery”, with 25 years imprisonment.
LGBTQ rights in different countries in the Caribbean/Americas.
“Laws governing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are complex in the Americas, and acceptance of LGBT persons varies widely. Same-sex marriages have been legal in Canada (nationwide) since 2005, in Argentina since 2010, in both Brazil (nationwide) and Uruguay since 2013, in the United States (nationwide) since 2015, in Colombia since 2016, in Ecuador since 2019 and in Costa Rica since 2020. In Mexico, same-sex marriages are performed in Mexico City and in the states of Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla Quintana Roo and San Luis Potosí, as well as in certain municipalities in Guerrero, Querétaro and Zacatecas. Those unions are recognized nationwide.
Among non-independent states, same-sex marriage is also legal in Greenland, the British Overseas Territories of Bermuda, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, all French territories (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, French Guiana, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon), and in the Caribbean Netherlands, while marriages performed in the Netherlands are recognized in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. More than 700 million people live in nations or sub-national entities in the Americas where same-sex marriages are available.”_Wikipedia.org
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