Local groups condemn growing homophobic violence in Caribbean

Red Thread, Help and Shelter, Artistes In Direct Support and the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) have joined with the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) and other  groups to condemn increasing homophobic and transphobic violence in the Caribbean.

A statement from SASOD yesterday said that CVC and its partners are “deeply concerned” by reports coming from Caribbean civil society organizations about incidents of violence towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people.

“The groups are disturbed by the anti-gay march held by evangelical churches last week in Haiti, and the alleged violence towards LGBT people afterwards. We are truly saddened by reports from Jamaica last week that a gender non-conforming 17-year-old was