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A Shaken Dominican LGBT Movement Finds Strength After Orlando

By Brendan O'Boyle

LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic aren't backing down in the face of discrimination.

The Dominican Republic’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community was shaken after the nightclub shooting in Orlando a month ago. At least four victims were from that small country, and the attack underscored the discrimination many LGBT activists feel in their own, largely conservative society. In a particularly ill-timed display of opposition to LGBT equality, hundreds marched in the capital of Santo Domingo against same-sex marriage on the day...

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