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Continual Harassment[edit]

The quote: "It should be noted, however, that as with numerous countries in the Caribbean, members of the GLBT community, especially gays, are met with consistent harassment once outed. Verbal insults, vandalism and physical abuse are not uncommon for individuals who outwardly identify as being gay."

Is unsubstantiated. Certainly while Trinidad is not liberal, afaik LGBT people are not 'consistently harassed' as they go about their daily lives. Can you provide any evidence for this?

Legislation graphic[edit]

Per this edit - what's wrong with the graphic? It needs a better caption, but I think it's a net plus to the article. Guettarda (talk) 17:45, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's huge and pertains to the region, not to this particular country. If anywhere, it should go in a regional article. Aside from that, the graphic is prone to errors when even one country's legislation changes. History has shown that graphics like this do not get changed. They just stay wrong forever. Has anyone vetted this graphic to see if it is correct? AfricaTanz (talk) 18:01, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's large, but not that much larger than many of our other figures. So I don't see that argument. As for the accuracy, it's consistent with what we have in LGBT_rights_in_the_Americas - do you have any reason to believe that's inaccurate?

With regards to the fact that it covers the region - why is that a problem? That's the standard way things tend to be portrayed - we're tiny islands, we share many regional institutions (Caricom, UWI, the West Indies cricket team).

History says that all our articles turn into shit if we fail to maintain them. If it ends up out of date, then we can remove it. It's easy then. I'm looking for a reason why it should be removed now. Guettarda (talk) 18:14, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's been removed because there is no consensus to have it. It dwarfs many of the articles we already have. Your assumption that these articles are not maintained is very mistaken. Otherwise, this graphic would not have come to my attention and I would not have dealt with it so rapidly. The presumption that the graphic is correct when we do not even know if the articles are correct is sadly misplaced. Cheers. AfricaTanz (talk) 18:29, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you should create a regional article to deal with regional concerns. The way Wikipedia is structured, we have individual country articles that deal with individual country issues. AfricaTanz (talk) 22:00, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Link to Sexual Offsenses act does not match quoted text[edit]

I cracked open the PDF and sections 13 and 16 in there do not match sections 13 and 16 as quoted in the article. You'll have to fix the ref. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]