Dutch & Arubans At Odds Over Gay Marriage

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/082105Aruba.htm

When two women tried to register as a married couple in Aruba last year, people on this Dutch island threw rocks at them, slashed their car tires and protested against gay unions outside Parliament.

The hostility eventually led Charlene and Esther Oduber-Lamers to flee the Caribbean territory, which refused to recognize their marriage even though the couple legally wed in the Netherlands four years ago.

"I couldn't sleep anymore," Charlene, a 33-year-old Aruba native, said in a phone interview from Holland, where the couple has lived since November. "I felt like maybe they wanted to kill us."


another reason NOT to visit Aruba

[Village Idiot]

1. There ain't a lot of "Gay-friendly" Caribbean countries...

they tend to see gays as "anti-men," and treat gays dismally...at least in my experience.