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Inside Caleb Orozco\u2019s Fight to Overturn Belize\u2019s Anti-Gay Laws<\/b>
\n<\/p>\n

This post originally appeared in\u00a0The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Once, at a speaking engagement, I said to the audience, \u201cI am\u00a0Caleb Orozco<\/a> and I love to fight!\u201d<\/p>\n

Fighting is what I do: for an education, for my health, for my spirit, and to find solutions to my fears.<\/p>\n

I am also aware of the importance of inspiring others, and my desire to see better for all people who live<\/a> in\u00a0Belize<\/a>. I have come to learn that death threats, physical assault, and humiliation will make a victim out of anyone, but it is principle that will allow you to stand your ground.<\/p>\n

Belize<\/a>\u00a0is a former British colony of around 370,000 people located in\u00a0Central America<\/a>\u00a0that got its independence in 1981. Its history and development from settlement to nation is filled with threats, disruption, and political struggles that had begun in the 1700s.<\/p>\n

I feel that history in my DNA, fueled with a desire to fight for transformation that is strengthen with purpose. My fight to overturn the sodomy laws in\u00a0Belize<\/a>\u00a0began in 2007 when I first met professor Tracy Robinson from the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP), who spoke to me about challenging the sodomy law that existed in Belize.<\/p>\n

Belize inherited its anti-sodomy law, known as Section 53, from a colonial ordinance banning \u201ccarnal intercourse against the order of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Little did I know what it would mean to be the sole litigant in this fight, running a small nongovernmental organization from the foot of my bed, and what political opposition meant. What I did know was that co-ordination, analysis and strategy were required to and amplify our community concerns.<\/p>\n

In 2009, I wrote the first shadow report on\u00a0LGBT<\/a>\u00a0issues that was submitted to the UN that revealed how the government of Belize viewed the fundamental rights of LGBT Belizeans.<\/p>\n

The government felt any effort to change our sodomy law,\u201d required extensive national consultation,\u201d and felt,\u201d it did not have the mandate\u201d to amend legislation, but also that the government was committed to protecting all members of the society from discrimination.<\/p>\n

Then I attended the Organization of American States\u2019 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) that allowed me further access to Belizean diplomatic thinking. That thinking held that LGBT Belizean did not have a serious problem with violence or discrimination and that our government could be absolved of their responsibility to advance anti-discrimination legislation.<\/p>\n

What was clear to me was that Belize\u2019s leaders did not think it was important to ensure protection of their own blood against discrimination or violence, so why should they extend protection to anyone else. Knowing that, I reasoned that I could not expect them to stand up for me automatically, on principle, much less execute their constitutional responsibilities under which we are governed.<\/p>\n

My campaigning was far from easy. Listening to the former Housing Minster of Works, Anthony Boots Martinez, attack the constitutional challenge against Belize\u2019s Sodomy law, at a 2011 evangelical rally, I got irate.<\/p>\n

At the rally, he said<\/a>, \u201cMy position is that God never placed anything on me for me to look at a man<\/a> and jump on a man<\/a>. I\u2019ll be clear on it\u2026 Why do you think God made a man<\/a> and a woman<\/a>? Man has what woman<\/a> wants, and woman<\/a> has what man<\/a> wants, it\u2019s as simple as that. I\u2019ll fight tooth and nail to keep that law!\u201d<\/p>\n

Although I heard the prime minister of Belize say at an Independence Day speech that same year, \u201cWhat the government cannot do is to shirk its duty to ensure that all citizens, without exception, enjoy the full protection of the law,\u201d I learned quickly that when a politician speaks, it is not always about principle and leadership.<\/p>\n

When I was campaigning against our sodomy law I was targeted with cyber bullying, and caricatures in the national newspaper to emasculate or dehumanize me to the general public.<\/p>\n

In one cartoon, I was pictured in stiletto heels and fishnet stockings, in another, the prime minister\u2019s head was between my legs Gangnam-style. I complained bitterly to my friends that fishnet stockings are not my style, my ankles were too fragile to walk in heels, and my legs would never be open wide for anything that big as I had a bad back.<\/p>\n

One of the things I learned while campaigning is that comfort and conviction cannot live<\/a> on the same block. I chose conviction and prepared myself for all that was to follow.<\/p>\n

The turning point in our litigation battle against the sodomy laws was seeing over 200,000 people voting for a national TV news poll around the effort to render our sodomy law unconstitutional in 2013, although official records showed that we only have slightly over 184,000 people who are eligible voters. While the poll was not scientific, it meant that we had successfully triggered national interest in our cause and that Belizeans were taking sides.<\/p>\n

We did not need to win the poll question, \u201cDo you support decriminalizing sodomy?\u201d just to show that the evangelical opposition was not in control of the social narrative about LGBT human rights concerns in Belize.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 10, 2016, Belize became the first country among CARICOM (the Caribbean Community) to amend its sodomy law to read, \u201cThis section shall not apply to consensual sex<\/a> between adults in private,\u201d and the last country in Central America to declare its sodomy law unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

As Jay Michaelson wrote in The Daily Beast afterward, the Belize Supreme Court, citing a South African case holding that \u201ca law which punishes a form of sexual expression for gay<\/a> men<\/a> degrades and devalues gay<\/a> men<\/a> in our broader society,\u201d found its anti-sodomy law to violate my human dignity, privacy, and (in forcing me to lie or risk prosecution) freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

Opponents trained by the American right-wing group, Alliance Defending Freedom, nevertheless, have sought to derail equality. The government and Catholic Church have challenged the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in a partial appeal and the full decision respectively.<\/p>\n

My response to this was: \u201cWhen a person like me has been marginalized for over 2 decades and live<\/a> in a state which does not acknowledge my concern, fighting is a normal part of the process. All I can say as claimant, I\u2019m ready for round 2 and let the fight begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next March, the Court of Appeals will hear arguments as to whether to allow the Catholic Church standing to appeal in its totality the Supreme Court decision and whether the partial appeal, based on concerns about sex<\/a> and freedom of expression, is an academic exercise or has merit.<\/p>\n

I am keenly aware that our last court is the Caribbean Court of Justice which offers finality and binding decisions among CARICOM states. Time will tell if I can win and our opponents become more constructive. Our struggle continues.<\/p>\n

Caleb Orozco is an LGBTQ advocate and a\u00a0Human Rights Campaign Global Innovator<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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