The inaugural Guyana Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride festival was launched on Thursday with religious leaders decrying discriminatory laws against these persons.
According to a media bulletin from the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) the launching ceremony took the form of an Inter-Faith service at the Catholic Life Centre on Brickdam attended by religious persons, leaders of the faith-based organisations and LGBT persons.
Head of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Guyana, Bishop Francis Alleyne who co-hosted the service with SASOD, expressed that while the issue of LGBT rights is a sensitive one, a