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...Ana-Maurine Lara Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality...

...Rachel Afi Quinn Openly gay, white, wealthy business leader James “Wally” Brewster was appointed in 2013 by the Barack Obama administration to serve as a US ambassador to the Dominican Republic in order to advocate for the rights of LGBT Dominicans. Brewster’s presence remained controversial...

...Jocelyn Fenton Stitt In 2009, during a period of intense debate surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Jamaica, Staceyann Chin published the first memoir of growing up lesbian in Jamaica. While Chin's lesbian identity is a major theme of the text, also important...

... and presence of LGBT organizations and representations in the twenty-first century that raise important questions about how Dominican cultural norms interact with broader global strategies of “coming out” and identity politics. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Dominican gender sexuality...

.... The essay offers some possibilities for greater nuance in accounts of sexual subjectivity in Cuba and the Caribbean and locates the stakes of these discussions in broader transnational LGBT rights discourses. 27 Eric A. Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer...

...Jacqueline Couti The French Creole term makoumè does not belong to the political and cultural discussions by French Caribbean LGBT communities seeking protection against abuse using the laws sanctioned by the French government. One would also be hard-pressed to find local and Caribbean...

...' college. The collaborators have received funding from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and they “hope to increase the visibility of LGBT Caribbean lives on screen.” 4 If it is widely distributed, this film could become a major intervention. Author Dennis-Benn made waves in social media...

... that called queerness as a classic norm- (or limit-) contesting posture into being as a theory. This broadly conceived spatial, temporal, and conceptual queerness of Spiritual Baptism opens a more respectful path by which to approach LGBT practitioners who manifest queerness in the faith. These queer...

... not fit global Northern models of “modern” lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politics. At the same time, LGBT politics are not simply external to Latin America but have a long-standing history in some countries. 14 This raises challenging conceptual questions; for example, how can one account...

... and other countries to overturn our buggery laws and enact legislation to offer special rights to LGBT persons. … We believe that Jamaica is going to be a place of refuge and we will continue to take a stand and encourage others to stand with us.” And on the other: “Simply focusing on the repeal of archaic...

... also analyzes Macha Colón’s song “Jayá” (2012), Eduardo Alegría’s song “Farifo” (2004), and Villano Antillano’s song “Pájara” (2020). [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Puerto Rico LGBT queer language Patería is a fierce Puerto Rican (and, more broadly, Hispanic...

...); and “Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora,” in Small Axe (2012). K areem M ortimer , a filmmaker who has won over thirty film awards, was born in Nassau in 1980. His feature films include the LGBT drama Children of God , which has won eighteen festival awards, and the family comedy Wind...

... Institute for Reproductive Health, and Transgender Law Center, Testimony of Organizations Supporting LGBT Equality (Washington, DC: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, 19 June 2012), 1. 17 Jack Harrison-Quintana and Sharon Lettman-Hicks, with Jaime...

...” that were so key to LGBT politics in the United States. Must these responses be seen as inherently and always only as a sign of repression, even if they themselves resisted the idea of being repressed (or hence, not “happy”)? As I considered how queer Dominican cultures, rather than necessarily...

...-politologa-denuncia-ministra-le-nego-beca-pos-grado-pelo-afro . On the Dominican response to the events in Orlando, see Yoranmi Santiago, “Una Veitena de Manifestantes LGBT Protestan Frente a la Cancillería, Previo Asamblea OEA,” Listín Diario , 14 June 2016, www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2016/06/14...

...–29; Cecil Gutzmore, “Casting the First Stone! Policing of Homo/Sexuality in Jamaican Popular Culture,” Interventions 6, no. 1 (2004): 118–34; Suzanne LaFont, “Not Quite Redemption Song: LGBT Hate in Jamaica,” in David A. B. Murray, ed., Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space (Durham...

... in a photo shoot for Hood by Air (HBA), manufacturer of a high-priced street-wear fashion line; see www.konbini.com/us/inspiration/hood-by-air-pieter-hurgo-jamaica-lgbt-community-gully-queens . 19 “Shopping Centre Replacing Knutsford Park,” Gleaner , 11 January 1959. 20 On the era...

..., underprivileged masses, people of color, LGBT individuals. Ironically, it is Burgos's own experience of migration and displacement that allowed the poet to become a central figure in the process of recovering and constructing Puerto Rican cultural identities and historical legacies within the diaspora. Burgos...

... Tinsley cites Edouard Glissant’s call for Caribbean scholars to embrace opacity, she goes on to explain that the difference that Glissant names is neither sexuality nor gender, although “tactics of self-veiling . . . challenge both heterocentric Caribbean critics and Eurocentric LGBT rights...