Many people in Trinidad and Tobago are less vocal about their feelings for murderers, child rapists and drug pushers, than they are about their dislike for gay persons. It makes you feel excluded, like I do not have a right to be. But I do. I am a human being. My sexual preference does not make me less. And how dare my country say that to me! Why don’t the law makers say since we are to be cast aside and unhappy because of our sexuality that they should not take our tax dollars? No they don’t say that, instead they just outlaw us in a savage manner and refuse to discuss anything for decades, as though even dialogue would be too much. … Uninformed persons associate HIV/AIDS mainly with gays, but all our ‘girls-men’ in T&T are just as responsible. We see it everywhere: taxi drivers and school girls; DJs and party girls; powerful men and their young girl toys; straight men are spreading diseases prevalently. It appears that most would prefer a son who was out every night romancing and ruining young girls. Apparently that’s less of a sin, than being in a monogamous relationship with a life partner of the same sex. I am not condemning but it is laughable that no one is as vocal about the breed of straight men we have running around, who over-compensate for their lack of achievements by raping, impregnating and infecting our daughters as if they are cattle.
—An unidentified 24-year-old gay man from St. James, on Trinidad and Tobago’s criminalization of homosexuality [via]
(Pictured: Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning, who dissolved parliament last month ahead of a no-confidence motion against him, and called for new elections two years ahead of schedule, and who refuses to publicly debate his opponent.)
Mike L.
Wow well said, yeah that guy seems to be a new tyrant in the world.
Why is it that homophobia and antigay legislation is running so ramapant in countries run and moslty populated by Africa’s scions/diaspora.
Aside from Muslim countries, seriously it’s just escalating so rapidly in countries where the majority/entirety of the population is black and either xtian or muslim.
It’s just sad b/c of all of those black lgbt brothers and sisters who are suffering and those that aren’t yet born that will suffer at the hands of their own countrymen/government.
connor
huh, well a least rapist/pedophiles are straight!
Lamar
Well said however the guy seems to ignore the fact that women can be just as amoral as men e.g goldigging or false rape accusations.
jeffree
Thanks Queerty! i know these kinds of stories dont get read too much or get many clicks, but it’s important for US/Canadian readers to recognise the sorry situations of our lesbian /gay/ bi sisters and brothers in other countries.
We may face discrimination & even violence here, but there are at least pockets of the country where our safety is relatively secure & where we have some legal protections. I try not to forget the struggles of women & men in other nations so these articles help me (& my friends, by extension) keep some perspective.
Please continue these posts. Thanx!
Hilarious
@Mike L.: Why are you making it about race?
adman
Well said, welcome to the new world of Black Nationalism, the same old scourge and scapegoating for self aggrandisment as it ever was. If I ever hear the word “revolution” from the African community once more, I will have to cry in my beer. The abuse of their own community by African Diasporic peoples is beyond a joke now. Reactionary blacks must be taken down, same as their white robed cracker cousins. Fuck ’em.
Hilarious
First of all you two morons Mike L. and Adman don’t even seem to know where the fuck Trinidad is. They’re not African, morons, so maybe you should get an education before you start ranting about Africa.
Secondly Trinidad is a melting pot of many skin colors, ethnicities, and backgrounds, including white people *gasp*.
So keep your bigoted uninformed racist comments to yourself because you really don’t know shit about what you’re crying about.
You make racist comments while claiming to care about gay black men in the same blurb, you have no clue where the area is, and you stereotype people with brown skin as if homophobia has anything to do with skin at all.
Go get educated then come back and discuss things like a human being rather than snarling and spitting like a vicious animal with no rational thought capacity.
You’re gay men so stop being bigots and hypocrites. This isn’t a racial issue so grow up and join the real world. Try actually caring about the people dealing with this instead of pushing your own little racist agenda on people you know absolutely nothing about.
adman
Baiting of stupid stars and stripes in his eyes moron troll accomplished! Tell me more, hilarious. Are we to combat the colonial history of the Americas as counter-revolutionaries, or can we patiently take the garbage trinidadians, caribs, and stupid assholes on Queerty spew to make progress towards equal rights? If you’d like to get on board with the developed world sometime, let us know, because as of right now you are an apologist for those who would murder me and mine…..how’s that for ignorance? You’re a f*cking tool.
Hilarious
@adman: I laughed, thanks for that. I didn’t realize you were mentally handicapped until that post.
adman
I love people who apologize for minorities no matter what happens, little mental fuck dolls, trying to “take down the man”. What a joke you are…see you on diversity day with your cultural relativity handbook in tow, which will be the day you finally figure out you are just another faggot. 🙂 ‘bye now!
Hilarious
@adman: Better than being a racist idiot like you.
adman
@Hilarious: You wouldn’t know a racist if one bit you, but what do you care? You don’t even know whom your patronizing, yet you the throw the race card out anyway…are your junior college ethnic studies classes really going that badly? Try and listen next class and maybe you’ll start to understand how insufferable morons like yourself have made racism a completely meaningless charge. As meaningless as your comments here on Queerty….why don’t you just move on little boy, you have no argument or education, nor an opinion that hasn’t been refuted by the average six year old.
Rick
@adman: Blah blah blah. You’re spewing the same fluff and insults over and over with absolutely no content.
Just because Hilarious got you pegged doesn’t mean you have to keep coming back with tired insults. Just let it go or find an actual argument.
Sceth
@Hilarious:
Honey, there actually was an active Black Nationalist movement in Trinidad circa 1990. Its platform was heavily religious. So Post 6 was imprecise. But post 1, bitter as it is, is quite on the dot. When (Trinidad’s) President Robinson opted to seat Manning (such a decision occurs when general elections split the parliament evenly) a decade ago, the outrage wasn’t his likely partisanship. The controversy was his stated grounding – “Moral and Spiritual Reasons,” to quote that most resounding omen that drove me from away.
AlwaysGay
This could be said in most places around the world. Last year, when people discussed where to move Guantanamo detainees because the prison was shutting down someone (from a town being considered to move the detainees to) said on TV they rather have terrorists in “their” town than gay people. Heterosexuals have a hatred toward gay people, that’s why I often call them HATERosexuals. Unfortunately, gay people don’t want to acknowledge heterosexuals’ hatred because they were raised by heterosexuals, family bonds are difficult to break. The fact is when things get tough heterosexuals no matter how friendly will throw you under the bus.
HIV infection in the black community in America is different than other racial communities because the overwhelming majority get infected from HETEROSEXUAL intercourse. It’s likely the same situation is happening elsewhere like Trinidad. Black heterosexuals scapegoat gay people because they don’t want to control their sexual habits and want to deflect attention away from themselves.
ADMAN
@Sceth: These uneducated niggers don’t know anything. It’s up to us to teach them before they kill us.
tjr101
@ADMAN:
LMAO, you fool. You just proved Hillarious’ point. Your a perfect example of a gay racists. Why haven’t you mentioned all the eastern European nations that are as racists as African nations?
What selective knowledge you have!
tjr101
Eastern european nations that are as homophobic as African nations is what I meant to say.
tjr101
@Sceth:
That “black nationalist movement” you mentioned was actually an attempted coup carried out by a minority muslim extremist group. As it was in Trinidad it comprised mainly of black people. The overwhelming majority of Trinidad’s black population is Christian catholic and were against the coup.
“black nationalist movement” quite laugable.
Tallskin
For all those of you stating that eastern european nations, such as Poland, Lithuania, Russia ‘are as homophobic as black nations’ – well, I disagree.
But before I say just why I disagree, I would like to draw up some dots and point out their commonality. Both blocks, ie eastern europe and the black nations, draw their homophobia from that filthy middle eastern sky pixie cult of christianity – in Poland’s case it’s catholicism, in africa’s case it is catholicism and some of the viler shades of protestantism. In Russia’s case it is the greek orthodox church.
All are christian countries and draw their anti-gay attitudes from christianity.
Ok, well why do I disagree that the eastern European countries are AS anti-gay as the black nations?
1) No-one in any of the eastern european nations are proposing the death penalty for gays, as they are in Uganda.
2) As far as I am aware no rampaging mobs have lynched, beaten up, murdered gays in the eastern european countries; as they have in many african countries, and is a frequent occurrence in african/west indian countries (ie jamaica). Gay rights marches have been banned, attacked by neo-nazis in Russia, but that is not the same.
3) Gays have not been imprisoned for being gay in the eastern european countries in the past five years, as they have recently in african countries.
adman
@#16 Ha, a troll! Posting as me now, lil’ boy? Where’s the fun in that? Anyone who knows me knows I wouldn’t post such crap….Oh well, so there’s trolls on Queerty, who knew?
Sceth
@tjr101:
I was not talking about the coup. In the early 90s there was regular footage of protesters at Trinidad’s Parliament calling themselves, surprise surprise, the black nationalist party. If you think it was isolated or dead, read Selwyn Cudjoe’s columns in Trinidadian papers.
tjr101
@Sceth:
This black nationalist movement you are talking about is akin to the Teaparty movement in America. They in no way represent the demographic composition or the views of the majority of the population.