Haiti's First LGBT Film Festival Postponed After Threats, Police Ban

Haiti's first LGBT film festival has been postponed after opponents threatened to burn down a building it was to be held in and Port-au-Prince police issued an order to ban it, organizers said. Death and arson threats came by phone and in social media, members of the Haitian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group Kouraj said. A senator added to the pressure to cancel the Massimadi festival, saying it would promote homosexuality and that impoverished Haiti had other...

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