So we're at the OAS General Assembly, and who should we run into? Caleb Orozco. That's right, Belize's most well-known LBGT activist is in Antigua Guatemala, and he's not there as a tourist – he was at the General Assembly as an accredited delegate REPRESENTING. Yesterday, he told us what LBGT groups are pushing for:
Caleb Orozco - Representing as an LGBT activist at the OAS
"My agenda is really not new for the Belizean public, it's one of rights and my bias remain LGBT citizens but this time what we're doing is working with our traditional partners within the hemisphere. Over thirty activists that looks at transgender issues, that looks at gay issues, lesbian issues and collectively what we've done is we've worked with some sensitization through a declaration. And the second one it looks at discrimination and all other forms of intolerance. The discussion is a little bit more complicated because adapting a convention does not necessarily mean that it's law and so I believe we have a process of domestication like any process you will have a difference of opinion. Extreme Christian right looking to define or in this case make a statement around the family and our correlation all came together to an understand that the narrow definition of family does not reflect the reality of single parent homes, it does not reflect the reality that there are gay and straight couples who take care of children and who are parents and as such there is a strong disagreement over that."
Orozco says this is his seventh OAS meeting that he's attending as an LGBT activist.
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