VISIBLE: The LGBTQ Caribbean Diaspora documentary trailer
Interviewed by Victor Yates
Karamo Brown is an American television host, reality television personalty, personality, author, actor, and activist with Jamaican heritage. Brown began his career in 2004 on the MTV reality show The Real World: Philadelphia. He currently stars as the culture expert in the Netflix series Queer Eye. In September 2022, Brown began hosting an eponymous talk show titled Karamo for NBCUniversal.
Staceyann Chin is a Jamaican-born spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Daily, and has been featured on 60 Minutes. She was also featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she shared her struggles growing up as a gay person in Jamaica. Chin's first full-length poetry collection was published in 2019.
Maurice Tomlinson is a Jamaican lawyer, law professor, and gay rights activist currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been a leading gay rights and HIV activist in the Caribbean for over 20 years and is one of the only Jamaican advocates to challenge the country's 1864 British colonially-imposed anti gay Sodomy Law (known as the Buggery Law). This law predominantly affects men who have sex with men (MSM) and carries a possible jail sentence of up to ten years imprisonment with hard labour.
Dominique Jackson is an actress, author, model, and reality television personality from Trinidad and Tobago. As an actress, she is best known for her leading role as Elektra Abundance on the FX television series Pose (2018 - 2021). As a model, she has appeared in Vogue Espana and walk the runway for Thierry Mugler.
Laith Ashley is an American model, actor, activist, singer-songwriter and entertainer of Dominican descent. As a model, Laith has modeled for a variety of venues and campaigns, including Barneys (photographed by Bruce Weber) in Calvin Klein and in Diesel (shot by David LaChapelle) becoming the first transgender man to be featured in a Diesel campaign. He has also appeared on the covers of fashion and lifestyle publications including in British GQ, Vogue France, Out Magazine, Elle, Attitude UK, Gay Times, FTM Magazine and Cassius. As an actor, in 2016, Laith appeared in Strut, a television program about transgender models, which was produced by Whoopi Goldberg.
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