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Contents:

• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• VIO: GAY MEN RUN OUT OF TOWN BY JAMAIN MOB
• JAMAI TO HOLD S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN THE ISLAND’S PAL
• GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND; HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WANTS BAN REPEALED
• INTERNATNAL URT FDS JAMAI VLATED RIGHTS OF GAYS
• JAMAI SHOULD REPEAL GAY SEX BAN, SAYS AMERIS TOP RIGHTS BODY
• JAMAI ACTIVIST CHALLENG ANTI-GAY LAW BID TO END VLENCE, DISCRIMATN
• INTERNATNAL URT FDS JAMAI VLATED RIGHTS OF GAYS

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison.

Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison.

Jamai Gay News. Jamai Gay Bar.

VIO: GAY MEN RUN OUT OF TOWN BY JAMAIN MOB

Jamai Gay Bars. Jamai Gay Club. Jamai Gay Clubs.

Jamai Gay Organisatn. Jamai Gay Organisatns.

Jamai Gay Center. Jamai Gay Centers.

JAMAI TO HOLD S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN THE ISLAND’S PAL

Jamai Gay Communy. Jamai Gay Communi. Jamai Gay Communy Centers.

Jamai Gay Datg. Jamai Gay Chat.

GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND; HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WANTS BAN REPEALED

Jamai Gay Life.

INTERNATNAL URT FDS JAMAI VLATED RIGHTS OF GAYS

Jamai Gay Pri. A Jamain mob barrid a group of 5 gay men a shack until the police arrived to rt the men out of town, acrdg to a report on the Huffgton Post.

The Jamai LGBT News terviewed a young man who beme “riled up” after the actns of an “alleged homosexual man. In Jamain Patois dialect, the man said: “We have young people growg up, and the gays want to troduce the young people to the gay liftyle.

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

The Huffgton Post not that “Jamai has an ternatnal reputatn for s homophobic climate and anti-sodomy laws … that punish vlators of the law wh a maximum of ten years of hard labor.

This time the gay men were lucky, they ped wh their liv. Btal attacks agast openly gay teens and young adults have creased tensy recent months on the Caribbean island. Gay rights groups are on the island phg for the repeal of Jamai’s anti-sodomy laws and anti-gay discrimatn.

Robert Griff III Says Gay NFL Players Should Come Out. Jamai’s LGBT muny is holdg s first gay pri celebratn the island’s pal, a weeklong event that was prevly almost unthkable a Caribbean untry long scribed as the one of the globe’s most hostile plac to Kgston have clud a flash mob gatherg a park, an art exhib and performanc featurg songs and poems by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Jamains.

JAMAI ACTIVIST CHALLENG ANTI-GAY LAW BID TO END VLENCE, DISCRIMATN

Jamain gay rights activists said Tuday the peaceful events are a clear sign that tolerance for LGBT people is expandg on the island even though stigma is mon and longstandg laws crimalizg sex between men rema on the books. “I thk we will look back on this and see as a turng pot bee many persons thought that would never actually happen, ” said Latoya Nugent of the Jamai Fom of Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, or J-FLAG, the rights group that anized the years, Jamai’s gay muny lived so far unrground that their parti and church servic were held secret lotns. A number of gay Jamains have won asylum while discrimatn agast gays remas pervasive many parts of Jamai and anti-gay vlence flar up recurrently, Nugent said there’s an accurate perceptn overseas that homosexuals Jamai “n’t even walk on the streets bee if you do you are gog to be stoned or stabbed to ath”.

There is a certa change gog on, ” 26-year-old Nas Ch told the Associated Prs after dancg at a secure pri Jamains nsir homosexualy to be a perversn om abroad and a newspaper-missned poll has suggted there is overwhelmg ristance to repealg anti-sodomy laws.

In late Augt, a young Jamain gay rights activist who brought an unprecented legal challenge to the anti-sodomy law whdrew his claim after growg fearful about possible vlent Human Rights Watch has noted that there’s been a “groundswell of change” the way Jamai is rpondg to human rights ab agast LGBT recent days, Kgston’s mayor and the island’s jtice mister have even publicly supported the weeklong pri activi, a major change a natn where policians once routely railed agast homosexuals and former prime mister Bce Goldg vowed 2008 to never allow gays his bet. I said y bee Amerin's have had so much to say about the plight of queer people plac like Iran and Afghanistan but for s have ignored the murrs of lbian women, gay men, and trans men and women Jamai... One of the people featured on the podst is the Jamain-Amerin gay pastor who started the first safe hoe his home Jamai and through donatns and his own money has been able to slowly build a work of other ho.

INTERNATNAL URT FDS JAMAI VLATED RIGHTS OF GAYS

Vcent and the Grenad still has laws on the books makg gay sex illegal. Vcent and the Grenad is known for s volnic terra, spectacular ral reefs and yacht-filled the ty Eastern Caribbean untry loted the Lser Antill also has a dub reputatn when to the treatment of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people: Its lonial-era gay sex ban. “The laws sgle out nsensual gay sex the ‘sexual offens’ sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct and sexual asslt, ” the report said.

Vcent and the Grenad, the level of homophobia the untry and ntued effect of s archaic law on rights of LGBT dividuals warranted report’s release while there is currently a trial si St.

Vcent, gay sex is crimalized Domi, Grenada, Guyana and Sat Rights Watch says that the Hoe of Assembly St. Vcent and the Grenad should repeal the gay-sex provisns s crimal and pass prehensive civil anti-discrimatn legislatn that clus protectns based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. “Every LGBT person terviewed said they wished to leave the untry and envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry, ” the report said.

González said the crimalizatn of gay sex giv “tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Ri (AP) — An ternatnal tribunal has found that Jamai’s ernment vlated the rights of a gay man and a lbian, acrdg to a lg released Wednday, and activists say uld set a precent a regn long known for legal harassment of the LGBT lg was issued by the Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights September 2019, but the missn had kept nfintial until Wednday. The tst reprented Gareth Henry, who attorneys said is a gay man livg as a refugee Canada, and Simone Edwards, a lbian they say was forced to flee Jamai.