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Contents:
- MARLON JAM: ‘I UNRWENT GAY EXORCISM PENTESTAL CHURCH JAMAI’
- MAN BOOKER PRIZE WNER MARLON JAM WAS TORTURED BY ‘EX-GAY’ EXORCISM: VIDEO
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- GAY THOR MARLON JAM WS MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015
MARLON JAM: ‘I UNRWENT GAY EXORCISM PENTESTAL CHURCH JAMAI’
Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat. * gay jamaican author *
Jamain novelist Marlon Jam, wner of the Man Booker Prize 2015, wanted to alter his sexualy “more than anythg” his youth and unrwent a gellg relig rual to try to “drive out the gay”, he is to expla a rad terview on was only when the wrer eventually turned away om formal relign and left the Caribbean that he was able to fully accept his homosexualy and even wre about . As Dert Island Discs’ latt staway on BBC Rad 4, Jam tails the extreme evangelil exorcism, or “gay cure”, he endured at a Pentestal church wrer, who earned lerary fame wh his third novel A Brief History Of Seven Killgs, had thrown himself to relign to f wh Jamain society and tells Lren Laverne he did not realise he was gay. Potg out that he was livg wh his grandmother durg that time, he further noted that was the day after the Pulse nightclub shootg Orlando, Florida, where 48 patrons of a gay club lost their liv.
“So he said to me, 'Of urse, you would feel that way bee word is spreadg around the muny that you are gay.
MAN BOOKER PRIZE WNER MARLON JAM WAS TORTURED BY ‘EX-GAY’ EXORCISM: VIDEO
The openly gay Jamain thor has won the prtig Man Booker Prize. * gay jamaican author *
The nversatn took a turn, he said, after his uncle directly said to him, “If you are gog to be gay then you and I nnot stay the same hoe!
He shared that, while he did not try to hi his sexualy to his fay, he never formally me out and told them he was gay.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
“My fay did not know that I was gay, but you know, that would be a great qutn for my fay bee, at the end of the day, I never me out to them, but was not necsarily me hidg myself. I did not leave willgly bee at the end of the day, no matter how homophobic is, that is my homeland and that is where I was born. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Jam, who had stggled to e to terms wh beg gay, said the treatment volved “a mixture of prayer and support and shamg and vomg. “I thought ‘Great, I am gettg rid of mons', until I read up on the whole ex-gay thg, ” he said. RELATED – Human Rights Watch Documents Abe Of Gays In Jamai: VIDEO.
GAY THOR MARLON JAM WS MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015
Jam add that “ex-gay” therapy is “dangeroly misleadg and I thk has been discreded. Homosexualy remas illegal Jamai.