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GSRD Therapist — Lucas Voclere — a Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity Therapist practise inclusively, compassionately, and consciously with awareness of the full spectrum of human identity and connection. It goes beyond a...

5 months ago

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6 months ago

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Self-Care is Homecoming — Lucas Voclere Self-Care Is Homecoming   In our fast-paced, connection-seeking world, it’s easy to forget that the deepest relationship we’ll ever have is the one we hold with ourselves. As a therapist, I o...

7 months ago

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The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

9 months ago

Giving language to describe the many subtleties and intersections of gender, sexual, and romantic identities helps people better understand themselves and others.

To relegate that progress behind a + feels wrong to me, but the expanding alphabet soup challenges […]

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10 months ago

P Town Bar ‘Raided’ During Queer Event Featuring Amanda Lepore Updated May 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM to include full statement from Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey. Full statement from P Town Bar: “Dear LGBTQ+ Community, Allies, and Valued Patrons, We apologize for …

P Town Bar ‘Raided’ During Queer Event Featuring Amanda Lepore

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Boy's In Love Keelan Mak · EP · 2024 · 5 songs

11 months ago

I’m enjoying this synthy/lo-fi pop album about gay love this morning, especially since my handsome hubby is traveling for work.

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How Trinidad lost the right to gay sex #### _LGBTQ rights activist filed the suit that legalized gay sex. Now he vows to appeal_ _Below, LGBTQ rights journalist Rob Salerno, an editor for Erasing 76 Crimes, analyzes the court ruling that revived the anti-sodomy law of the Caribbean island nation of**Trinidad and Tobago**. (Click here to subscribe to his LGBTQ Global newsletter.)_ **Map of the 66 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them. ** **ANALYSIS** Queer people suffered an enormous and surprising setback on Wednesday when the Court of Appeal overturned the 2018 ruling that struck down the Caribbean country’s laws banning gay sex.I’m going to try to break down what happened here. In 2017, UK-based Trinidadian activist Jason Jones filed a challenge to the country’s buggery and serious indecency laws – the laws which effectively ban gay sex, as well as oral and anal sex between straight people. A year later, a court on the island ruled in his favor, finding that the laws were unconstitutional insofar as they applied to consensual acts in private. Trinidad became part of the leading edge of a wave of legal challenges that saw laws banning gay sex struck down across the region. Belize had preceded it in 2016; shortly after the ruling, a coordinated set of legal challenges were launched in all of the other former British colonies in the Caribbean islands. By 2024, activists had won challenges to sodomy laws in **Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis,** **Dominica,** and **Barbados** – with cases still pending in **Grenada** and **St Lucia**. Around this time, these rulings were mirrored in court decisions striking down anti-gay laws in other former UK colonies, including **Mauritius, Botswana,** and **India** , making them part of a larger global trend. **Jamaica Supreme Court. (Photo courtesy of the Jamaica Gleaner)** But there were some warning signs on the horizon. In 2023, **Jamaica** ’s Supreme Court upheld its sodomy laws, finding they were protected by a “savings clause” in the country’s constitution, which protects pre-independence laws from constitutional scrutiny. Last year, **St Vincent and the Grenadines** ’ high court issued a baffling ruling upholding its sodomy laws. So what happened in Trinidad and Tobago? Well, in the original case, Jones had argued that although the constitution has a “savings clause” – as do most former UK colonies in the Caribbean – the clause didn’t apply, because the colonial-era buggery law (part of the _1925 Offences Against the Person Act_) had been repealed and replaced by a different buggery law (the _1986 Sexual Offences Act_) which carried a significantly stiffer penalty, up from a maximum of 5 years in prison to 25 years. The colonial-era “gross indecency” law had similarly been replaced with a “serious indecency” law. The judge found that this rendered the savings clause inapplicable and then found that the laws were unconstitutional. The government of the day vowed to appeal.Seven years later – yes, seven years later – the Court of Appeal issued its 2-1 judgement siding with the government. The 200-page judgement is not yet available online – the website seems to run about a week behind – so I can’t read it to fully understand the reasoning. But reports seem to indicate that the court decided that the 1986 buggery and serious indecency laws are indeed unconstitutional but then reinstated the repealed 1925 buggery and gross indecency laws in their place. I fully do not understand how the court can argue that this is not legislating from the bench, when it is specifically undoing an act of parliament – repealing the old act. The net effect of this is that anal sex and oral sex are both illegal in Trinidad and Tobago again, albeit with lesser penalties than they held in 2017. See Also ###### Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians However, the judges found that the gross indecency law does not apply to married or heterosexual couples conducting the act in private consensually). **Jason Jones (Photo courtesy of St. Lucia Times)** Jones has vowed to appeal this to Trinidad’s highest court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the UK, but, to be fully honest, I don’t like his chances. The JCPC has ruled, and recently, that “savings clauses,” including specifically Trinidad and Tobago’s, are still active and in effect (in a case upholding T&T’s death penalty). Possibly the best line of argument is that the CoA erred in the way it applied the savings clause, given the history of this buggery law specifically.Mixed up in all this are political questions around the law and the courts. Both major parties in T&T have been pretty proudly homophobic – the opposition even more than the party that’s been in government through the entire case. The country is in the midst of an election to be held on April 28, but that’s unlikely to change the political calculus. The current government would like to abolish the Privy Council as the court of final resort and move to the local **Caribbean Court of Justice** instead, as five other neighboring states have, but it lacks the needed supermajority support in parliament to do so. Moving to the CCJ would be relevant, because the CCJ has generally ruled that “savings clauses” in Caribbean countries’ constitutions have generally expired and are no longer valid. If Trinidad and Tobago moved to the CCJ, it would be more likely to strike down its buggery laws. But only time will tell what will happen here. Jones is filing his appeal to the JCPC, but it’s likely years before the case is heard, and years more before the JCPC issues its ruling. During that time, Trinidad is, unfortunately, returned to the list of states that criminalize LGBT people. Bringing the total back up to 66 countries with laws banning gay sex. | ---|---

1 year ago

Trinidad & Tobago re-criminalized gay sex by overturning a 2018 court ruling that found the “buggery and serious indecency” laws unconstitutional.

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1 year ago

A hand holding a green cylindrical container labeled "Probi Original," which contains vegetarian capsules with patented bacterial strains. The background features blurred green leaves.

To help fight #BiErasure, my doctor recommended ProBi once a day.

(This is a joke for my bisexual friends.)

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