{"id":93420,"date":"2020-01-01T15:04:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=93420"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:26:52","slug":"the-region-which-legislates-who-you-can-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/the-region-which-legislates-who-you-can-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The region which legislates who you can love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Gemma Handy (BBC)<\/p>

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“It’s mainly snide remarks due to toxic masculinity,” Aziza Lake says. But homophobia in Antigua and Barbuda sometimes manifests itself in sporadic brutality too, she continues.<\/p>\n

In her rainbow-coloured shirt and hat, seated outside a popular caf\u00e9 in the capital, St John’s, she might consider herself lucky compared to her openly gay counterparts in neighbouring Caribbean nations.<\/p>

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LGBT people in the Eastern Caribbean described being stabbed, beaten, choked and pelted with bottles and bricks in\u00a0a 2018 Human Rights Watch report.<\/p>

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Now\u00a0the region which Time magazine dubbed in 2006 as “the most homophobic place on Earth”\u00a0is the scene of a major battle to overturn British colonial-era laws that ban same-sex intimacy.<\/p>\n