The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday labeled the government’s proposed plan to hold a referendum on decriminalizing gay sex as an “odious” cop-out, and a substitute for leadership, courage and decency.
In a statement to the press yesterday, the GHRA declared that the intimate lives of homosexual people should never have been polarized or criminalized and as a result it called for legal recognition of a variety of sexual identities in Guyana to be achieved.
It stressed that any referendum would be held under inherently unfair conditions “since civil debate among the Guyanese population has been rendered virtually impossible by bigotry, myths and fear.” As a consequence, it said the results of a referendum to determine what has been
