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Religious members of the Georgetown Ministers’ Fellowship on Friday made several calls for Government to intervene and stop the pride festival and parade organized by the Guyana LGBT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Community) which is slated for Saturday.

According to the Fellowship, “the Christian community which makes up more than 60 percent of the population is concerned by efforts to pressure the government to legalize buggery.”

As such, they are demanding that Government make known where their support lies with regards to the decriminalization of homosexuality while threatening to withhold their votes during elections.

At a press conference on Friday, Pastor Desmond Rogers asserted that with the LGBT Community only being a mere 10 percent of Guyana’s population, their political support- which is also being used as leverage against Government- should not place pressure on the administration to “legalize buggery.”

According to him, his Fellowship will not support this move as it is deemed “immoral.”

SASOD’s, Joel Simpson

Meanwhile, organizer of the gay parade and the Managing Director of the Society Against Sexual Orientation and Discrimination (SASOD), Joel Simpson was quietly among the gathering at the Fellowship conference.

He maintained that their protests will not deter the members from carrying out the pride festival celebrations.

“It’s really a protest and an opportunity for the LGBT community to continue its empowerment work,” he told media operatives while noting that his community is still waiting on Government to fulfill their 2015 campaign promise.

“We are still looking for legislative change promised in 2015 elections. We are voting, tax paying law abiding citizens like everyone… We are not asking for anything special. We should enjoy protection from discrimination”, he posited.

http://www.inewsguyana.com/chr...r-govt-intervention/

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We have a situation where a "human rights" issue become insensitive to the religious community that is trampling on a minority group for protesting the government of what was promised to them in 2015. Just imagine, the LGBT group is a mere 10%, and they are brave enough to challenge the government to fulfill their campaign promises. These people don't take "buggering" if they don't like it from the government. 

If the majority of the constituents that voted for the coalition have done what the LGBT group is doing, the government would be made to deliver on its promises. Yet, the unholy Christians who indulged in buggery are now against it for the LGBT.   

 

 

FM
Mitwah posted:

Organizers of Toronto’s annual Pride Parade are planning to end the event with a tribute to the victims of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur.

http://toronto.citynews.ca/201...ride-parade-tribute/

The LGBT organization is becoming a force to reckon with. I used to know them by Lesbian/Gay before I learned about the extension of LG(BTTIQQ2SA). When I read about the nature of each group, it makes you wonder of God's intention to make life challenging to our core belief. 

FM

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Guyana face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Guyana is the only country in South America, and the only country in the Americas outside the Caribbean, where homosexual acts are still illegal. Under the laws of Guyana, homosexual acts carry a possible punishment of life imprisonment. Recently, there have been efforts to decriminalise homosexual acts. President David A. Granger supports these efforts.

Source:

Mitwah

‘Otisha’ charged with rape of boy, 14

Otis Pearson called ‘Otisha’

Transgender sex worker Otis Pearson, popularly known as ‘Otisha,’ was yesterday charged with sexual activity with a 14-year-old boy.

The particulars of the charge stated that on December 24th, 2017, at Station Street, Kitty, he caused the then 14-year-old boy to perform a sexual act, that is, the penetration of the anus of Pearson.

 

Pearson, who was read the charge by Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly in open court and not at an in-camera hearing as is customary in sexual offence cases, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge.

Attorney Ronald Burch Smith, who represented Pearson, requested that his client be granted reasonable bail.

As a result, Pearson was later granted $300,000 bail and he was ordered to report every Monday to the Alberttown Police Station and to also lodge his passport.

Pearson is expected to make his next court appearance on June 19th before the Chief Magistrate.

Pearson was arrested in March after the Childcare and Protection Agency launched an investigation following a public statement in which he claimed he had “a little boy for every day of the week.” Pearson subsequently retracted the comment, while stating that it was taken out of context. However, after the comment was made, a photograph with Pearson and a young man surfaced on social media, where it was widely circulated.

 

Based on the findings of the Agency, a report was submitted to the police.

Source:

Mitwah

LGBT are all humans and they will continue to satisfy their sexual desire for men/women, etc. What I am against is forced sex/rape on underage children. All sexual intercourse including buggery must have consented between two adults. The government should ease restriction on the buggery law to allow LGBT the same sexual freedom as heterosexuals. I read endless stories of straight men having sex with men and women are becoming Bi-curious in Guyana. Buggery is happening in prisons across the globe and it's becoming a way of life for many. Laws were made by men and it can be changed when it is challenged to meet the need of other. The Pope accepts LGBT openly and said they are all God's children.

FM
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Gay in India, Where Progress Has Come Only With Risk

Related Story:

BILASPUR, India — If you had told Ayesha Kapur 10 years ago that she would help lead the fight against one of the world’s oldest laws criminalizing gay sex, she would never have believed you. For most of her life, Ms. Kapur was afraid to ever speak of her sexuality.

Growing up in New Delhi during the 1980s, Ms. Kapur knew of no gay women, no reference points from Bollywood movies that could provide the vocabulary for what she was feeling. The word “lesbian,” she said, was “like a bad word.”

Three decades later, Ms. Kapur, who describes herself as deeply private and mostly apolitical, became a member of the first group of gay petitioners to challenge the law, known as Section 377.

In stepping forward, Ms. Kapur, 43, and other petitioners admitted to the court that they were criminals under a law routinely used as a cover to harass, blackmail and sexually assault gay people.

Continues.......

FM

I don't believe Jagdeo is Gay if that's what you mean. I never heard rumors that he slept with men either. He was pulled into politics at a young age that his life is submerged in it that nothing else matter. 

FM

The PPP has been giving mixed signal on their chance of regaining public office. From all indication, the ABC countries are siding with the coalition government. As I said before if regime change was in play, they wouldn't install the coalition govt for one term since the oil is expected to surface in 2020/2021.

FM
ksazma posted:

I don't care if he is gay or not. If he is able to pull the country out of another PNC bankruptcy he would be worth the oxygen he is using.

PNC Bankruptcy????  So how come Guyana moved from a lower middle income, when the PPP was in power, into the upper middle income classification by the World Bank?

Why then, Guyana's eligibility to access loans from the World Bank enhanced under the APNU+AFC regime?

 

Mitwah
Prince posted:

I don't believe Jagdeo is Gay if that's what you mean. I never heard rumors that he slept with men either. He was pulled into politics at a young age that his life is submerged in it that nothing else matter. 

I did not say that, he has been all over every other case related to people's and workers rights!

Baseman
Baseman posted:
Prince posted:

I don't believe Jagdeo is Gay if that's what you mean. I never heard rumors that he slept with men either. He was pulled into politics at a young age that his life is submerged in it that nothing else matter. 

I did not say that, he has been all over every other case related to people's and workers rights!

Point taken! 

FM

I would never accept such thought from Robert Corbin to be true, especially from his campaign speeches. 

That said, Jagdeo wouldn't be the first and last politician to be gay (if true).

The focus on Jagdeo should be on his experience as former president of Guyana and any capacity he held before and after his presidency. 

 

FM

Supreme Court backs Christian baker who spurned gay couple.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory on narrow grounds to a Colorado Christian baker who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, stopping short of setting a major precedent allowing people to claim exemptions from anti-discrimination laws based on religious beliefs.

Image result for gay wedding cake

https://www.reuters.com/articl...p;utm_medium=partner

FM
Nehru posted:

When is the Parade for Namakaram Crabsaag Prasites. The PM will be the Guest of DISHONOR!!!!!!!!!!

Is it because of the choice they made to coalesced with APNU? It was AFC choice and NOT a personal decision by PN Nagamootoo. 

FM
Prince posted:

Christian Fellowship against LGBT ‘pride’ parade, calls for Govt intervention

Religious members of the Georgetown Ministers’ Fellowship on Friday made several calls for Government to intervene and stop the pride festival and parade organized by the Guyana LGBT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Community) which is slated for Saturday.


http://www.inewsguyana.com/chr...r-govt-intervention/

Christian Fellowship against

LGBT

or,

LG's BT.   

FM
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Baseman posted:
Churchill posted:

Was the champion of the earth in the march ?

 

Why didn't you ask around the crowd yourself?

You are in a better position to know seeing you were leading the march .

FM

People don't dislike Jagdeo for who he is. They dislike him for what he did to grassroots members of the PPP party. What we're seeing is a ripple effect of consequences PPP is paying for those mistakes. 

FM
skeldon_man posted:
Mitwah posted:

Robert Corbin, often insinuated in his campaign speeches that Jagdeo was gay.

Source: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/ca...GEORGETOWN386_a.html

 

I really don't care. It's his life.

Maybe, just maybe, Corbin was his domestic partner to know this.

Are you saying Jagdeo Bugga Corbin???

Nehru
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LGBT taking aim at buggery laws

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Alexa Hoffman. (FILE)

Three Barbadians from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community will be challenging two of Barbados’ “onerous” laws which they say criminalise intimacy between consenting partners.

A transgender woman, a lesbian and a gay man will be making a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

While both the gay man and lesbian preferred to remain anonymous, Alexa Hoffmann, a 24-year-old transgender woman, told the DAILY NATION that although Barbados was a signatory to international conventions, including the American Convention on Human Rights, these laws remained on the books and nothing was being done about them.

Hoffmann said there were two areas being challenged. One was Section 9 of the Constitution which dealt with buggery and the other, Section 12, relating to serious indecency.

She said the latter spoke to “any act which involves the use of genital organs for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire”, but was not gender neutral and was used to target lesbians.

Hoffmann said while Section 9 did not have a specific definition of buggery, the way the law was applied in the courts, it usually targeted gay men, or men who have had inappropriate relationships with children, making an erroneous link between gays and paedophiles, causing confusion.

She said, however, that the buggery law could apply to two men or a man and a woman engaging in anal sex, and “under the legislation both are a crime”.

Hoffmann said these were acts between “consenting adults” but the laws, which were more than 200 years old, were “very archaic and very draconian” and “have no place on the books” in a modern society.

The launch will be held tomorrow at the moot courtroom, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies  Cave Hill Campus.

Joining the petition will be Trinidadian Westmin James, deputy dean, Faculty of Law, Cave Hill; Maurice Tomlinson, senior policy analyst, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, a Jamaican, and Yvonne Chisolm, pro-bono litigation counsel.

Tomlinson has been active as an attorney or claimant in cases which challenge anti-gay laws across the Caribbean. (SAT)

Source: DailyNation.com

FM
Nehru posted:
skeldon_man posted:
Mitwah posted:

Robert Corbin, often insinuated in his campaign speeches that Jagdeo was gay.

Source: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/ca...GEORGETOWN386_a.html

 

I really don't care. It's his life.

Maybe, just maybe, Corbin was his domestic partner to know this.

Are you saying Jagdeo Bugga Corbin???

nehru bai, you prappa smart you know.

FM

‘Spread love, not hate’ – Guyana’s first Gay Pride Parade hailed a success

By Devina Samaroo

In a country where buggery remains illegal and gay rights are frowned upon by many, LGBTQ persons and supporters wore their rainbows proudly as they marched through city streets at Guyana’s inaugural Pride Parade on Saturday.

Pride Parades have different purposes globally but for Guyana, it was just meant to be a platform for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queer individuals to express themselves.

Persons wearing the rainbow with pride. (Joseph Allen photo)

And that they did in grand style. The revelers, who were decked in ostentatious costumes and some in heels, danced to the rhythms of soca music as they moved from Parade Ground through Church Street and onto the Square of the Revolution in the capital city.

Member of Parliament (MP) Priya Manickchand was there to show her personal support. She said: “Priya Manickchand supports the decriminalization of personal sexual relations” but she was quick to condemn any form of rape by any individual.

Manickchand noted that the time is now to have serious widespread conversations with the aim of developing solutions to issues affecting the LGBTQ community and she urged the Government to pilot such discussions.

The parade was organised by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), the Guyana Rainbow Foundation (GuyBo) and Trans United.

Director of SASOD, Joel Simpson hailed the initiative a major success and promised that next year’s parade will be better.

While the parade was all smiles and laughter for the community, Simpson said it sends a strong message to legislators and Government officials.

“We think three years into Government, it’s time that we have more than that [talks],” he stated, adding that “we want to see action and we want action now.”

The parade concluded by nightfall without incident but many curious onlookers lined the streets to steal a glance of the moving party, and some of them, had unpleasant things to say about the LGBTQ community.

Anil Persaud, SASOD’s Homophobia(s) Education Coordinator, urged the naysayers to ‘just let people be’.

His sentiments were echoed by many of the community’s members and supporters.

Jade Mitchell expressed: “everybody deserves rights, no matter who they are, no matter their sexual preference.”

Kevon Carter was very pumped about the celebratory event and he urged Guyanese to practice love instead of hate.

In addition to the rainbow flag, the Golden Arrowhead was a key symbol at the parade as a gentle reminder that Guyanese are supposed to live as One People, One Nation and with One Destiny.

https://newsroom.gy/2018/06/02...ade-hailed-a-success

FM

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