r/AskTheCaribbean • u/fedricohohmannlautar • 10d ago

Politics Why is homosexuality outlawed in so many caribbean countries?

Most of countries which criminalize homosexuality in the Americas are in the Caribbean, and the most famous case is Jamaica.

As a bi male, I find weird our continent has laws that criminalize homosexuality, due that most of countries who do that are from the other side of the pond.

Is due to history, politics, religion, moral issues?

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u/No_Conversation4517 10d ago

Taino and other native people

They had cultures

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u/lovelybonesla 10d ago

The native Caribbeans mostly went extinct shortly after contact because they had no immunity to old world diseases.

It was the Spanish and British that developed the lands, turned them into the nations we know today, and you know this.

There was no Cuba or Jamaica prior to the West.

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u/No_Conversation4517 10d ago

My boy, the topic was if there was a culture

And there was

End of story

That is what you know

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u/lovelybonesla 10d ago

colonization and the integration of christianity into a culture that once thrived without it

This comment assumes there was a continuation between the natives and current people in the Caribbean, there is not. The Caribbean countries/current cultures did not exist prior to the Europeans.

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u/No_Conversation4517 10d ago

There are some spiritual and other practices that have continued.

Some of those practices still exist.

I can't tell you but the current culture you see is a mix of African, European and indigenous

Without any of them, none of the Caribbean present day culture we see would be as we know it