However, as depressing as this all is, we wouldn’t like to recommend that gay travelers don’t go to the Caribbean full stop. These places, in particular, have a terrible reputation for homophobia and we wouldn’t recommend traveling there at this time. The Cayman Islands also deserves to be named and shamed, although it repealed its anti-gay sex laws in 2001. Violence against the gay community is, unfortunately, a frequent – and unpunished – occurrence.Įven more shockingly, in Jamaica and Barbados, it can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
A shocking 11 countries in the area prohibit gay sex. Why this is the case is complicated, related in part to religion but even more to toxic perceptions of masculinity in the region.
