For the last two years we at BTAC have been exceedingly proud to note that our BTAC fam includes two people from Jamaica and Brazil, and ...

As I have repeatedly pointed out over the history of this blog, trans people are part of the diverse mosaic of human life and we can be fo...

Break out the broom, because Sec. Hillary Clinton had a great weekend in the Caribbean without riding on a cruise ship or going on vacatio...

One thing we have been aware of is the face of trans undocumented immigrants being a Latina one.   We know that many trans Latinas are he...

In the history of the FIFA Women's World Cup, a Caribbean based team has never played in the tournament.  With CONCACAF tournament qua...

I posted a while ago about efforts of the trans community in Guyana to overturn the British colonial era anti-crossdressing laws that are ...

Today is the second wedding anniversary of our Cuban trans sister Wendy Iriepa and her activist hubby Ignacio Estrada, and wanted to wish...

The Wendy and Ignacio in this case are our Cuban transsister Wendy Iriepa Diaz and her hubby Ignacio Estrada Cepero who had a very public w...

Was wondering if anyone from the Jamaican government would condemn the brutal July 22 mob violence killing of Jamaican gender variant kid D...

In the wake of the violent murder on Monday of gender variant teen Dwayne Jones , J-FLAG, the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All-Sexuals And Gay...

Infuriatingly sad story coming out of Jamaica Dwayne Jones, a 17 year old Jamaican teen was at a street party on July 22 in the Irwin comm...

I wrote about this February 2009 case in the South American nation of Guyana in which several of our transsisters there were arrested for vi...

Those of us in the US and elsewhere across the African Diaspora have watched in horror the last few years as our Jamaican trans sisters have...

I've been happy to see that several Caribbean Anglophone island nations are discussing or starting to make their first tentative steps...

There have been some interesting things happening for trans people in the Caribbean since 2010.  With the Organization of American States ...

Jamaica wasn't the only Caribbean island nation celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence from Great Britain this year.  The tw...

Like me and many of my friends, 1962 is a special year for the island nation of Jamaica..  It was 50 years ago on this date that a ceremon...

TransGriot Note: Rainbow community human rights issues in the Caribbean are still a mixed bag and require much work and improvement.  P...

There are TBLG communities around the world, and even with the drama and negativity aimed at them they still exist and proudly and openly ...