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LGBTQ+ Bajans currently do not enjoy the same rights as heterosexual citizens. As the world’s newest republic begins life, it’s vital that the island nation ends its laws penalising the community
Lady Phyll discusses British colonisation, its impact on LGBT+ rights, and how the Kaleidoscope Trust is working to build an equal world.
Lester Kiewet speaks to Steve Letsike, chair of both LGBTI National Task Team & Commonwealth Equality Network
Mon 28 Dec 2020 02.15 EST Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 07.21 EST When I was nine, my parents took me to a traditional healer. He used a razor to make three incisions on the insteps of my feet, my wrists, my elbows, my forehead and on the back of my neck. As blood started to flow, the healer rubbed a concoction of herbs into the incisions and gave me a potion to drink. He took alligator pepper and rubbed it on various parts of my body. There was a rooster, into which he cast the “demon” inside me. The rooster was slaughtered and thrown into the river, supposedly taking my sexuality with...