Avantika Vandanapu

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Local LGBTIQ+ organisation LEGABIBO welcomed the government’s move, describing it as “a necessary and long-overdue step toward restoring dignity and aligning our legal framework with constitutional values of equality and human rights.” The group said the change sends “a clear message that LGBTIQ+ persons are not criminals, and that their lives and relationships deserve protection, not punishment.” LEGABIBO noted that the colonial-era provisions had long cast a shadow over the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in the country.

If you did click the link/provide personal information, change your password to your account as well as your email accounts. If you provided banking information, lock your cards and call your bank asap to make sure they can provide you with a new card and to prevent fraud. (I'm not sure if banking info is asked for in this post but better to be safe than sorry)

— Rati Saxena, from a poem titled "Mountain Nights," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women: a world poetry anthology (via lunamonchtuna)

Rosemonde Zebo: Wedded in the first same-sex union in the French Caribbean.

The wedding was in 2013 btw. Her partner Myriam Jourdan unfortunately died in 2020.