Gay cruise couple plead guilty
Two US men who were arrested on board a gay cruise while docked in Dominica last week have pleaded guilty to indecent exposure.
Police were alerted to the men by people on shore who could see their balcony, according to Dominican police superintendent David Andrew.
John Robert Hart and Dennis Jay Mayer, both from California, were charged with buggery – the local equivalent with sodomy – and indecent exposure.
The Associated Press reports they said in court that they regretted their actions.
“We humbly apologise to the people of Dominica,” both men said at the hearing.
Chief Magistrate Evaline Baptiste ordered the men to pay a $2,400 fine and called them “rogues and vagabonds”.
The men, who were aboard the Celebrity Summit cruise ship organised by Atlantis Events, have now been released.
Gay cruise tourism has been a hot-button issue in the region, where Caribbean islands such as Jamaica, Barbados and the Cayman Islands are openly hostile towards homosexuality.
Atlantis Events have pledged to continue visiting Dominica despite the incident.
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That’s what happens when people look through their binoculars. As for the “ReCaptcha things”, I’ve just come back from NZ and they don’t have them over there.
Quit taking gay cruises to those countries and supporting their ignorance with your money…. Gays can be their own worst enemies, sometimes.
p.s. these reCaptcha things are getting so ridiculous that I give up sometimes with posting something. Anyone else having the same problem?