Global Americans hosts a panel on LGBT+ rights in the Americas to discuss legal advancements, how the community is affected by COVID-19 and what more needs to be done.
The State of LGBT+ Rights in the Americas
Cuba
Fear and loathing of civil society in Cuba
By Armando Chaguaceda & Claudia Gonzáles /
The Cuban government’s ideologically-driven operating principle has always been that only the state can define and promote minority interests. The independent LGBTI+ marches in May demonstrated the government’s fear of its citizens’ growing sense of autonomy.
Cuba
Tropical Stonewall
By Armando Chaguaceda /
On May 11, Cuba’s LGBTQI community took to the streets of Havana for the island’s annual gay pride parade, despite the government’s ban. But, in responding to protestors with its usual counteroffensive, the state was met with a sort of tropical Stonewall.
Human Rights & Social Inclusion
An interview with Hunter Carter about the legal fight for marriage equality
In our fifth episode, Chris Sabatini and Ken Frankel speak to Hunter Carter, partner at Arent Fox LLP and co-founder of the Alliance for Marriage in the Americas (AMAmericas), to discuss marriage equality and LGBTQ rights in Latin America.
Brazil and the Southern Cone
Latin America’s 2018 LGBT year in review
By Javier Corrales /
An AIDS crisis in Venezuela, the first gay pride parade in Guyana, the rise of Evangelical movements, and an Oscar. These are the top ten LGBT issues from the region this past year.
North America
Ten highlights from Global Americans in 2018
We combed through all of our publications from 2018 and selected what we thought were the best ten articles that captured the trends and events of the past year.
Central America
The IACHR held a hearing on marriage equality after a year of delays from the region in implementing the Court’s 2017 decision
By Hunter T. Carter /
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In 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights determined that marriage equality was a human right. In the face of resistance in the region, in a recent IACHR hearing on the matter, commissioners committed to enforce it.
Human Rights & Social Inclusion
Emissary hypocrisy: The U.S. State Department refuses to recognize same-sex partners of envoys
By Christopher Sabatini /
Does the U.S. deny foreign emissaries other rights denied them in their own countries? Of course not. Then why are we doing it to LGBTI couples?
Brazil and the Southern Cone
The 2015 Top 10 Events in LGBT Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Javier Corrales /
Despite legal setbacks in Peru and El Salvador and retrograde rhetoric from the newly-elected President of Guatemala and the Catholic cardinal of the Dominican Republic, overall LGBT civil, human and political rights continued to make gains across the region.
Human Rights & Social Inclusion
What’s left? Venezuela and Ecuador
By Christopher Sabatini /
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Rafael Correa exhibit none of the characteristics of the modern, progressive left—such as, support for indigenous communities’ land rights or LGBT rights—so why are they still called leftists? Because they say so.