PART 2

Resilience, resistance and hope:
organising for social change

Ten years ago, I set out on the path to achieve equality in my country − to bring down Belize’s sodomy law − and this year, I won. The news of this victory has reverberated throughout the Caribbean and been a beacon of hope for many ... The best thing I see across the Caribbean today is that we are building an LGBT movement. We are not waiting. We’re leading and insisting on a better quality of life for ourselves. (Caleb Orozco, speaking on 21 Sep. 2016)¹

Figure 12. First Pride march in Uganda, Kampala, Uganda, 6 August 2012. Photo credit: And Still We Rise, Sexual Minorities Uganda and Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights.

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1 See: ‘At historic UN event, presidents and prime ministers push to LGBT equality’, OutRight Action International, https://www.outrightinternational.org/content/historic-un-event-presidents-and-prime-ministers-push-lgbt-equality (accessed 10 Apr. 2018).