Latoya Nugent

Author: Latoya Nugent

  • Religious freedom and LGBT rights: A Jamaican perspective

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    Latoya Nugent

    Yesterday I attended the Public Lecture at the Faculty of Law, UWI Mona by Robert Wintemute of King’s College, London. The question he sought to answer was: Lesbian and gay human rights in the Caribbean: Would decriminalisation restrict religious freedom? While I found the title of the lecture to be problematic I welcomed the fact…

  • Understanding LGBT Rights in Jamaica

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    Latoya Nugent

    To deny people their human rights, is to challenge their very humanity. –Nelson Mandela Yesterday I sat for approximately three hours with a wonderful sage and storyteller – Thomas Glave – as he chronicled the human rights movement in Jamaica with regard to the LGBT community. I realised that though the cultural and ICT contexts…

  • Issue Brief: Homophobia and violence in Jamaica

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    Latoya Nugent

    J-FLAG has recently published an Issue Brief on the state of Homophobia and Violence in Jamaica. Please see report below. Since July 2013, subsequent to the murder of 16-year-old Dwayne Jones – a transgender teen in St James – there have been several news reports of brutal attacks perpetrated against LGBT people across the island.…

  • Reflections on the Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference

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    Latoya Nugent

     I have never been quite fond of certain conferences and workshops primarily because some of them tend to be useless and unproductive at best. I do not know how others feel about this but in my opinion it is a waste of resources to engage in 2-7 day workshops and conferences when at the end…

  • Covert and overt language: Progress in anti-gay music?

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    Latoya Nugent

    Some of the greatest Caribbean sociologists, like their North American and European counterparts have long demonstrated through research that language was the centrepiece of culture. While all components of culture play an important role in the social development of every society, socialisation would be impossible without language – the spoken and the unspoken. So fundamental…