Bahamas

 

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Updated 98-05-22

I previously claimed that homosexuality was illegal in the Bahamas. Recent statements by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, who clearly said that homosexuality was not a crime, and National Security Minister Frank Watson, who announced that the Bahamas military, prison service, and police force do not discriminate based on sexual orientation, made me change the status. "Whether a private sexual act between consenting adults is homosexual or heterosexual is not my business, and I do not think it is your business either," Prime Minister Ingraham said in a televised speech in April '98. 

The government of the Bahamas does not promote or encourage homosexual lifestyles but neither does it condemn or exclude persons who reveal themselves to be homosexual. 
 
The drinking age in the Bahamas is 18. 

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