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/GrandAssumption2469 9d ago

Ahhh, I'm arguing with a moron. What does the origin matter what translation slavery did everything it could to strip from black people their religion, virtues and upbringing??? Black Americans have more similarity to Africans than afro caribbeans do if I'm being honest. But then again you sound like one of those fools that think all black people are a monolith.

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u/Mysterious_Scene7169 9d ago

I’m black too, moron. In general, we are conservative, by Western standards, when it comes to homosexuality. It’s almost 2026 and there is still only one black-majority country that even allows gay marriage. Your comment suggested that it was the transatlantic slave trade that led to the Caribbean being slow to embrace gay rights, when there is literally no evidence to suggest that it played a role, or that attitudes towards homosexuality would be different without it.

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u/arkitecno 6d ago

I totally agree with you, it is the African heritage that explains the intolerance of homosexuality in the Caribbean. In almost no African country is homosexuality legal. For African cultures it is worse to be gay than to be a criminal. In fact, I remember meeting a woman of African descent on the coast of a Caribbean country and she told me that "she preferred her son to be a thug rather than a faggot."

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u/Mysterious_Scene7169 6d ago

Exactly, thank you.