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VIDEO: Anti-Gay Group CitizenGo Targets OAS Delegates with Airport Ad Campaign

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A firestorm of controversy has erupted after CitizenGO, a well-known anti-gay organization, was granted permission to launch an advertising campaign at the V.C. Bird International Airport timed to coincide with the arrival of delegates for the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly in Antigua this week.

The campaign, which features both digital and printed ads throughout the airport’s arrivals area, has drawn sharp condemnation from local and international observers.

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CitizenGO has a global reputation for pushing anti-LGBTQ+ narratives, and critics say the group’s messaging runs counter to the OAS’s core principles of equality and inclusion.

Many are calling the campaign a national disgrace and questioning how it was approved in the first place. Human rights advocates warn that the ads could seriously damage Antigua and Barbuda’s international standing, especially at a moment when the country is under the global spotlight for hosting a major human rights-focused summit.

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Comments (13)

  • Chupz June 24, 2025, 1:14 PM

    These homophobes need to go mind their own business
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    • Real June 24, 2025, 1:19 PM

      Real
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  • Braindead June 24, 2025, 1:18 PM

    Useless uneducated homophobes. The time they take to make that ad they could be going back to school.
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  • Evelyn Houston June 24, 2025, 1:25 PM

    Why are these people concerning themselves with what consenting adults do or don’t do in the privacy of their own homes.
    Why not do something constructive, maybe go help repair all saints road, volunteer in the hospital or help in a home for orphaned children.
    Reply

  • Informed citizen June 24, 2025, 1:32 PM

    Antigua and Barbuda has made significant strides in decriminalizing same-sex relations and implementing anti-discrimination laws. This external campaign seems out of step with the progress our nation has already made.
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  • Tamisha June 24, 2025, 2:11 PM

    This can not be happening in Antigua when we are trying to be a forward thinking country and attract more tourists to our country.
    People need to find better things to occupy their time, frfr
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  • _ June 24, 2025, 2:26 PM

    Bold and Commendable move by CitizensGo.
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  • Teacher for Life June 24, 2025, 2:55 PM

    Love not judge is my mantra. Who the hell’s business is it what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their space? BLATANT HYPOCRISY is why there’s been a great falling away from the church. Our job is to love one another not judge one another. And the same chicken shit hypocrites are in the closets secretly jealous of those who are bold enough to live their truth. Others are adulterous, others pedophiles, others wife beaters others thieves.I can go on and on. …There’s no big sin or little sin –sin is sin ;but we must not be judge, jury, and executioner because truth be told everyone of us is struggling with something; so stop trying to act like you are perfect or that you are better than somebody else simply because of who two consenting adults love. JUDGE NOT LEST YOU ALSO BE JUDGED!!!
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  • Antigua Surf June 24, 2025, 3:26 PM

    Under here is where the gays will gather! They will raise a rokus and fight war. Well well. This is a right move tho it may affect the current shift in Antigua
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  • Bigger question... June 24, 2025, 3:27 PM

    Hmm, everyone is entitled to their opinion including the group posting the signs. However, the bigger question is WHY are they posting the signs now? Is there an agenda item in the upcoming OAS meetings to push LGBTQetc. priorities on everyone else? Whilst I would not have much to say about what some persons choose to do in private, when they start to try to push society to cater to their more unnatural lifestyles that does become a problem. The media should perhaps inquire further with the activists about why they are protesting now…
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  • Apex Jones June 24, 2025, 5:10 PM

    Covering my eyes. No comment
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  • Ben Simmons June 24, 2025, 6:40 PM

    Gay people believe that they have too much rights in a persons place. I have no issues with that. How can a country be blessed when all they are doing in things that can bring about curses.
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    • Stone June 24, 2025, 7:07 PM

      I will always go by biblical principals…would you have sex with your brother or sister ? no because it’s biblically wrong so why do you want to do it with your kind?
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