AHC: Less homophobic Caribbean

Sex tourists don’t bring AIDS to Haiti.

Haiti is only one of many Caribbean countries. Also, a less homophobic Haiti would probably require a very early and pre-1900 POD, through which Haiti could be richer and more developed than in our timeline so that intellectualism and socially liberal ideas could flourish.
 
Have either decolonization occur later, or the gay-rights movement occur earlier, so that they're both going at the same time, and the two issues are linked in the mind of progressive opinion.

South Africa embraced equal marriage politically(I'm guessing there is still a lot of social resistance) long before a lot of western nations did. Possibly not a coincidence that their liberation coincided with the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian issues worldwide.
 

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Can you imagine had HIV had become wide spread during the Hippie era? That would have been disastrous. I think you would have had to have a European colony in the Caribbean that accepted European norms. Maybe a French or Dutch colony.
 
So it could help if colonies are held until UK has decriminalised homosexuality?

The UK bears the responsibility for imposing homophobic laws in the first place. Post-colonization, however, I would blame the respective nations' governments for continuing them, when they are free to make any laws they want.
 

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So it could help if colonies are held until UK has decriminalised homosexuality?

Maybe.

There is a religious aspect to it as well. India is still using sodomy law from 1864, which were still on the books when they gained independence.
 
Maybe.

There is a religious aspect to it as well. India is still using sodomy law from 1864, which were still on the books when they gained independence.

And the fact that India had the werewithal to declare itself a republic and remove the Union Jack from its flag, should demonstrate that they weren't hindered by any post-colonial neuroses about having to continue doing things the British way.
 
What doing Jews have with homosexuality? With my knowledge Judaism is not any more tolerant towards homosexuality than Christianity.

Well, in most places, secular Jews tend to be more socially liberal than is average for the general population. Hasn't quite worked to make Israel a progressive utopia, but that's probably because of the influence of religious migrants.

Not sure what secular Jews were like, socially, in colonies where they moved in as part of a settler or administrative population.
 

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And the fact that India had the werewithal to declare itself a republic and remove the Union Jack from its flag, should demonstrate that they weren't hindered by any post-colonial neuroses about having to continue doing things the British way.

True, but they are still using the Indian Penal Code which was set up in the 1860's. Caribbean countries are, in the main, running the same laws that where established when they became colonies.
 
True, but they are still using the Indian Penal Code which was set up in the 1860's. Caribbean countries are, in the main, running the same laws that where established when they became colonies.
India recently decriminalized homosexuality...
 
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