Pride or Pretense

Carnival’s Celebration Key and Jamaican Ports Are Built on Broken Rights
By Broken Paradise · RevealThem.org · July 2025

🌈 Carnival Celebrates Pride — But Profits from Repression

Carnival Cruise Line wants you to believe in freedom, diversity, and inclusion.

It celebrates Pride Month.
It promotes “gay-friendly” vacations.
It waves rainbow flags at sea.

But here’s the truth behind the branding.

In July 2025, Carnival opened its new private port, Celebration Key, on Grand Bahama Island — in close partnership with a country where:

• LGBTQ+ people have no legal protections
• Same-sex couples are not recognized
• Transgender identities are erased in law and public policy
• Migrants are detained and deported without due process
• Fox Hill Prison is internationally condemned for inhumane, overcrowded, rat-infested conditions
• Church leaders still call publicly for bans on gay cruise ships

And that’s not the only stop on Carnival’s list.

The company also regularly docks in Jamaica, where:

• Homosexuality is criminalized under colonial-era laws
• Police harassment, mob violence, and homophobic attacks are widespread
• Trans women face extreme levels of violence
• Public figures glorify anti-gay violence in music and speeches
• LGBTQ+ youth face homelessness, suicide, and neglect

🛑 Carnival claims to welcome LGBTQ+ guests — and then sails them directly into danger.

🎭 Celebration Key: A Mask for Injustice

Carnival’s $600 million “Celebration Key” project is not inclusive.
It is a beachfront mirage, masking the legal and social reality onshore.

• No anti-discrimination laws protect queer people or tourists in the Bahamas
• Asylum seekers, especially from Haiti and Cuba, are jailed in horrific conditions
• Police abuse power, detaining people on expired warrants or without legal basis
• Bahamian bishops organize protests against gay cruise ships, citing “Christian values” over international rights

And Jamaica? Even worse.

• LGBTQ+ identities are treated as criminal
• The U.S., UK, and Canadian governments all issue LGBTQ+ travel warnings
• Carnival says nothing — and sails on.

Inclusion is not waving a rainbow at sea while docking in injustice on land.

🚢 Why It Matters

Carnival makes money from silence.

It brands itself as inclusive.
It hosts drag shows and sells Pride-themed souvenirs.
But behind the marketing are real people — in real danger.

By partnering with governments that jail, deport, or erase LGBTQ+ people, Carnival is complicit.

Celebration Key isn’t a celebration.
It’s a symbol of everything that’s wrong with corporate Pride.

✊ What We Demand

We call on Carnival Cruise Line to:

1. Publicly acknowledge the human rights crisis in both the Bahamas and Jamaica
2. Suspend operations at Celebration Key and Jamaican ports until:
   • Anti-discrimination protections are enacted
   • Migrant detention is reformed
   • Humane prison conditions are guaranteed
3. Add binding human rights clauses to all port contracts
4. Support independent LGBTQ+ watchdogs and safe tourism initiatives

🖋 Add Your Voice

We, the undersigned, believe:
No Rights, No Business. No Dignity, No Docking.

Carnival can’t claim allyship while funding oppression.
Until it acts, we sail elsewhere.

👉 Sign the petition now:

🔗 https://revealthem.org/boycott

🛑 Don’t Sail With Silence.
📣 Demand better.

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