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• JAMAI SHOULD REPEAL GAY SEX BAN, SAYS AMERIS TOP RIGHTS BODY
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JAMAI SHOULD REPEAL GAY SEX BAN, SAYS AMERIS TOP RIGHTS BODY

KINGSTON, Feb 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Jamai should repeal s lonial-era gay sex ban, the top rights body of the Ameris said on Wednday, a symbolic landmark lg on LGBT+ rights the Jamains who iated the se 2011 - after they were attacked by homophobic gangs and sought asylum overseas - said the 1864 ban on the “abomable crime of buggery” and “gross cency” legimised vlence agast LGBT+ people. “Gays and lbians ntue to be killed and tortured bee they are emed to be different, ” he said, scribg how he was beaten by the police ont of a mob. A spokwoman for the Jamain ernment was not immediately available to is the first time the Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights (IACHR) has led that crimalisg gay and lbian people vlat ternatnal law, said the Human Digny Tst, an LGBT+ legal advocy group which brought the se.

Jamai is one of ne Caribbean untri that crimalise gay sex. Homophobia is rife and the penalty for same-sex timacy is up to 10 years jail wh hard labour.

Gay sex is illegal 68 untri worldwi, says the ILGA advocy group.

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Jamai’s Prime Mister Andrew Holns said 2014, when opposn, that he wanted to put the gay sex ban to the public a “Grand Referendum”, along wh marijuana, abortn and whether Bra’s Queen Elizabeth should stay head of IACHR cisn was ma September 2019, but remaed strictly nfintial unr s orrs until Wednday.

The rabow flag, monly the gay pri flag and LGBT pri flag, is a symbol of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) pri and LGBT social movements. Contextually, of all margalised groups, transgenr people have been known to be one of the most disproportnately affected due to the sheer fluence of discrimatn and transphobia perpetuated our society and meted out by the transphobic/homophobic tradn which our culture is embedd.

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Jamai has had a long-standg history of systemic homophobia and transphobia, which, herently, has a ripple effect on the negative general attus of society towards LGBT people.

Jamai is the most homophobic island the Caribbean, wh harsh anti-gay laws, even though there's a large lol gay populatn. Hedonism II Negril also allows gay travelers.

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If you're sirg a gay trip to get some sun, fet Jamai unls you want to stay ep the closet. Puerto Ri, notably Old San Juan, is a iendlier statn, certaly South Beach (part of Miami Beach) or Key Wt, but fely not Jamai where tolerance of gays is most pronounced.

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Lol gay activists have been killed or had their hom set on fire.

Fally the Jamain state has been held to acunt for s plicy the vlence and discrimatn I have faced for beg gay. An ternatnal tribunal has led that Jamai should scrap s homophobic laws hatred that LGBTQ+ people routely face Jamai, and the lonial-haner laws that crimalise gay relatnships, are well documented. But, for the first time, the Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights has termed that laws agast the “abomable crime of buggery” and acts of “gross cency” effectively led to state-sanctned vlence agast LGBTQ+ one of the two claimants this se, I had to tail my experienc over s livg as a gay man and rights activist Jamai.

All this simply bee they were gay, and unable or unwillg to live a msage LGBTQ+ Jamains receive loud and clear is that our liv are worthls.

I ed to be part of a ball team of gay men, which we set up as a source of fort, support and solidary wh one another. In the end, five of our players were killed separate homophobic attacks. Tacklg Jamai’s problem wh homophobia requir actn on different levels – social, polil, relig and the tim I experienced vlence Jamai, was exclively at the hands of the police.

And whenever I reported a homophobic crime, I was met wh ridicule or dismissal.

I nnot divorce this open police aggrsn om the existence of the homophobic laws. A light ra eased the heat and the dancers went home to was all a far cry om the untry that Time magaze lled “the most homophobic place on Earth” 2006.