Gay st lucia
Can We Hold Hands Here?
That gorgeous ad of a couple holding hands on the beach in the lush, mountainous Caribbean nation of St. Lucia? Oh, it looks so gentle , honey, let’s book it!
Chances are if that’s the extent of your decision-making process, you are heterosexual. Sight unseen, I guarantee that the couple in the photo is straight—also probably white, blond and under 40, but that’s a different article.
For just about anyone in the lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , transgender or queer (LGBTQ) community like myself, the ad may have gotten our attention, especially in the dead of winter in New York Municipality, but the decision to visit is much more complex. Will my significant other and I be welcome? Can we hold hands or even just perch together on the beach without attracting unwanted attention? Would we be subject to judgment, eye-rolling, harassment or worse?
LGBTQ people living in St. Lucia deal with legal challenges not experienced by others. Acts of “gross indecency” are punishable by up to ten years imprisonment. While these laws may infrequently be invoked among locals and certainly never against Wes
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Last updated: 17 December
Types of criminalisation
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
- Criminalises sexual activity between females
Summary
Same-sex sexual outing is prohibited under the Criminal Code , which criminalises acts of ‘buggery’ and ‘gross indecency’. These provisions move a maximum penalty of ten years’ imprisonment. Both men and women are criminalised under this law.
The law was inherited from the British during the colonial period, in which the English criminal law was imposed upon Saint Lucia. Despite adopting a new Criminal Code in , Saint Lucia opted to retain the provisions and continues to criminalise queer sexual activity today.
There is no evidence of the regulation being enforced, and it appears to be largely obsolete in practice. Nevertheless, the mere being of this provision is itself a violation of human rights and underpins further acts of discrimination (see f
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St. Lucia "Breaks The Bias" With New LGBTIQ-Inclusive Domestic Violence Act
On March 8, St. Lucia’s Parliament passed the landmark Domestic Violence Act, , becoming one of the few countries in the Caribbean to provide legal protections to people in same-sex relationships who trial domestic violence—and the only country in the region to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the implementation of such laws. Lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming (LGBTIQ) people whose relationships may fall outside a cisgender, heterosexual norm are now able to access all the resources and remedies provided in the Act, including protection orders from the court.
The Home Violence Act, passed on International Women’s Day, represents a big step forward not just for St. Lucia but for the entire Caribbean. St. Lucia’s Minister for the Common Service, Home Affairs, Labour and Gender Affairs, Dr. Virginia Poyotte, describes the Act as one of the “most progressive in the region.” The Caribbean saw its “first genera