March 18, 2015
Think it’s hard to be gay in the
United States? Kenita Placide, from St. Lucia, humbly describes her
courage in the face of astonishing adversity.
Want to see a room full of activists and journalists completely spellbound?Last December, The Daily Beast convened the first installment of Quorum: Global LGBT Voices. We hosted eleven TED-style talks, panels, and discussions. The room was full of longstanding activists, journalists, and members of New York’s LGBTQ community.
You could’ve heard a pin drop when St. Lucian activist Kenita Placide told her story, which is being published today. It’s a story of family tragedy, and her resilience in the face of it. It’s the story of someone who had three friends murdered for being LGBT. And it’s a story of a grassroots organization—United & Strong St. Lucia—whose offices were vandalized just one week before Kenita traveled to the United States to give her talk.
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