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LGBT Contingent Joins West Indian Celebration

LGBT Contingent Joins West Indian Celebration

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This year, for the first time, the Brooklyn, N.Y., Carnival celebration featured an LGBT group, which called for an end to homophobia in Caribbean nations.

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This year, for the first time, the West Indian American Day Carnival celebration in Brooklyn, N.Y., welcomed an LGBT contingent.

Members of Caribbean LGBT marched a procession for the event, held earlier this month, with a banner identifying their organization, and they chanted, "End Homophobia Now." They sought to draw attention to anti-LGBT hate crimes in Caribbean nations, including the recent murder of Jamaican Dwayne Jones. Caribbean LGBT also works for marriage equality and other LGBT civil rights.

Learn more about the organization here.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.