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Gay marriage no longer
taboo in Cayman Islands
Louis said some of
her successes have been
endorsed by several
elected officials.
Besides Assembly
Member Bichotte, they
include: Borough President,
Eric Adams; Assembly
Members, Helene
Weinstein and Jaime
Williams; Council Members,
Justin Brannan
and Helen Rosenthal;
and District Leaders, Ari
Kagan, Lori Maslow and
Lew Fidler.
In addition, Louis
said she has the support
of “diverse community
leaders from different
sections of the district.”
Two of the city’s most
prominent lesbian, gay,
bi-sexual, transgender
and queer (LGBTQ) voices
have lent their weight
to Louis’s campaign:
the Jim Owles Liberal
Democratic Club and the
Lambda Independent
Democrats of Brooklyn.
“In backing Farah,”
the Jim Owles Democratic
Club’s president,
Allen Roskoff, said: “We
have been at the forefront
of the fight for
basic human rights for
the LGBT community
and have only supported
candidates who were
willing to do the same.
“We’re endorsing
Farah Louis for the 45th
City Council District
because she has shown
that she will stand with
us on the struggle for
equality for the LGBTQ
community, immigrants,
people of color,
the disabled and other
marginalized people,”
Roskoff added.
Jared Arader, president
of Lambda Independent
Democrats of Brooklyn,
said: “We proudly
endorse Farah Louis for
City Council in the 45th
district.
“Her willingness to
put the community first,
and support equality for
all people, is inspiring,”
he added.
Louis said she was
“excited and humbled”
to accept these endorsements.
“The momentum we
are building is undeniable,”
she said. “I am
grateful that so many of
the district’s residents,
local leaders and organizations
are placing their
trust in me to serve the
people of the 45th Council
District.
“I will hit the ground
running and build on my
record in the community
from when I served
as Jumaane Williams’s
deputy chief of staff,” she
added.
Louis regards herself
as “an esteemed community
organizer and publicist
with over 15 years
of experience and dedication
to advocacy and
public service.”
She said public service,
workers’ rights and
community empowerment
are passions that
she inherited from her
family.
Louis said both of her
parents worked on behalf
of the community. Her
mother is a long-time
healthcare professional
and 1199 union member,
and her father served as
a law enforcement professional
and later as a
yellow cab driver.
By Vinette K. Pryce
A female couple in the
Cayman Islands decided
that if at first they
couldn’t succeed, they
would try again.
Motivated by that
popular adage one year
after they were refused
application and permission
to marry, a re-trial
of the procedure proved
successful allowing them
to amend the laws of the
British territory. Their
successful request was
approved when Chief
Justice Anthony Smellie
ruled that the practice of
denying applications for
same-sex unions were in
violation of the constitution.
He added that the
fact the law specifically
defines marriage as a
union between a man
and a woman it had also
imposed “indignity, inequality
of treatment and
inequality of legal status
upon same sex couples.”
On seeing the petition
filed by Vickie Bodden
Bush and Chantelle Day,
Judge Smellie ordered a
rewrite of the Cayman
Islands law, which forbids
homosexual unions but
also guarantees freedom
from discrimination and
other inclusive privileges.
“By its ongoing refusal
to recognize and respect
these rights of the petitioners,
the state has
been and remains in violation
of their rights,” he
said.
He specifically targeted
the clause in the law
that defines marriage —
reserved for heterosexual
couples.
He ordered a rewrite
with an amendment
stating that: “‘Marriage
means the union between
two people as one another’s
spouses.”
His ruling was immediately
effective with
approval from the couple,
their friends and family.
They gushed saying
the ruling was right and
that despite the ordeal of
the process “love wins.”
Samuel Bulgin, attorney
general seemed more
contemplative about the
decision.
He called the landmark
decision “very interesting.”
“The government will
have to take some time
to consider it and think
about how to move forward,”
he said.
Meanwhile buggery
laws apply in nine Caribbean
countries with penalties
of up to 10 years
in jail.
In most cases the law
applies to men. In Grenada
and St. Kitts females
are exempt from criminal
punishment.
Louis plans to hit the ground running
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