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Thousand-plus participate in anti-gay demonstration in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than 1,000 people in Haiti are participating in a rare demonstration to protest homosexuality.
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Catholic Cardinal refers to gay U.S. Ambassador nominee as ‘faggot’
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — President Barack Obama’s choice of openly gay nominee, James “Wally” Brewster as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has touched off a firestorm of criticism including from Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who referred to Brewster in Spanish as a “maricón” — a slur usually translated as “faggot.”
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Dominican religious groups reject gay U.S. ambassador nominee
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Religious groups in the Dominican Republic said Friday they are outraged by the nomination of a gay U.S. ambassador to the conservative Caribbean country.
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Jamaican gay rights activist seeking changes to anti-sodomy law
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A gay rights activist got his first court hearing Tuesday on his effort to bring a constitutional challenge to Jamaica’s nearly 150-year-old colonial-era law that bans sex between men.
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Jamaica church leaders rally, protest efforts to repeal anti-sodomy law
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Several church pastors in Jamaica led a revival meeting Sunday to oppose efforts to overturn the Caribbean country’s anti-sodomy law and turn back what they see as increasing acceptance of homosexuality.
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Grenada senator urges new look at anti-sodomy laws
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — The president of Grenada’s Senate says the Caribbean island should reconsider its laws prohibiting sex between men.
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Incriminating photo surfaces, reported to be of gay men arrested on cruise ship
An incriminating photograph has surfaced, reportedly of the two men on an Atlantis gay cruise who were arrested earlier this month and accused of openly having sex on the boat while docked in the Roseau port of Dominica.
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Gay cruise arrest in Dominica should be wake-up call for LGBT community
Despite incredible progress on the road to equality particularly in many western nations, despite bold proclamations in support of LGBT people by important world leaders such as U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, don’t forget that there are 76 countries around the world where it is illegal to be gay.
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Gay couple arrested on cruise ship ‘paraded like animals’
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A gay couple from California, arrested earlier this in Dominica for alleging having sex “in open view,” are disputing accounts of the incident by the cruise operator and the Caribbean island’s authorities, and said that while in custody they were paraded around like animals.
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Gay men arrested for having sex on cruise ship plead guilty in Dominica
ROSEAU, Dominica — Two men on an Atlantis gay cruise who were arrested Wednesday and accused of openly having sex on the boat while docked in the Roseau port, have plead guilty to a charge of indecent exposure are expected to leave the Caribbean island country later today.