The U.S. & Jamai are fightg over gay rights - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• VIO SHOWS GAY MAN STONED TO DEATH JAMAI
• IT WAS HELL GROWG UP JAMAI – GAY MAN
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• VIDEO: UTECH GUARDS BTALLY BEATG GAY MAN IN JAMAI
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• ATTACKS SHOW EASYGOG JAMAI IS DIRE PLACE FOR GAYS
• GAY JAMAI TRAVEL GUI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAMAI: BEENIE MAN APOLOGIZ TO THE GAY COMMUNY

VIO SHOWS GAY MAN STONED TO DEATH JAMAI

A young Jamain man was pummeled to ath wh rocks as his killers chanted antigay slurs, acrdg to a vio and lol of the public executn was posted on a Jamain news se and then removed March 3, acrdg to the blog Mory-Insight. Common Jamain antigay slurs like "batty boy" are heard as the man is killed. The Jamain ernment, known by some as plic antigay hate crim this eply homophobic untry, has not issued a statement on the Guardian newspaper recently terviewed 2, 000 Jamains about their feelgs toward gay people.

Though the paper found wispread animosy toward gays, younger and more ted people exprsed much ls tolerance. Men, and pecially those who listen to dancehall mic, were found to be the most homophobic. McDuff, now 32 years of age, rells beg lled “every gay name a male Jamai n be referred wh, such as ‘sissy’, ‘fish’, while livg the untry.

IT WAS HELL GROWG UP JAMAI – GAY MAN

I always teased and picked on, bee I was more effemate growg up, so the assumptn is that I was gay, so they teased and picked on me and I felt exclud om my fay, so I started isolatg om an earlier age sce I was seven, ” McDuff told The Gleaner. “I am fortable my sk now where I’m a proud gay man. Based on the studi and current s of bullyg across the island, Glenroy Murray, terim executive director, Equaly for All Foundatn Jamai, is very ncerned about stunts beg bullied for their perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty, as bullyg and homophobia affect the mental health and distrs of Jamain children.

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. Yterday a vio surfaced on YouTube showg a gang of secury guards at the Universy of Technology UTECH Jamai btally beatg a gay man a vio sent social media s Facebook and Twter to a stunt seen the vio was ught a bathroom wh another man a very promised posn.

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

The other man ped the wrath of the mob and the guards but this one wasn’t so vio shows the guards drapg, kickg and punchg the man while shoutg gay slurs. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St.

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.

VIDEO: UTECH GUARDS BTALLY BEATG GAY MAN IN JAMAI

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

It is hard for me as a gay this untry.

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

ATTACKS SHOW EASYGOG JAMAI IS DIRE PLACE FOR GAYS

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Yellg antigay slurs and wavg machet, sticks and kniv, 15 to 20 men kicked the ont door of the home he and his iends had rented and set upon them.

Beg gay Jamai is not easy. For years, human rights groups have nounced the harassment, beatg and even killg of gays here, to ltle avail. “One time may be an isolated cint, ” said Rebec Schleifer, a rearcher for Human Rights Watch who has studied the issue and regularly gets lls om the island om gays unr attack.

GAY JAMAI TRAVEL GUI

”Disapproval of gays is an entrenched part of island life, rooted, Jamains say, the untry’s Christian tradn. The Bible nmns homosexualy, they say. But crics say islanrs are selective the vers they ce, and the rage at gay sex ntrasts sharply wh Jamains’ embrace of sual sex among heterosexuals, which is nsired part of the Caribbean way.

While some other Caribbean tourist statns have ma a pot of marketg to gay travelers, Jamai has notably not joed the double standard on the island is reflected the antigay lyrics of Jamain dance hall mic, the headl of more hyperventilatg tabloids — “homo” is the term most often ed — and the fact that homosexualy remas illegal here, wh the specific crime lled “buggery. He said he had been harassed regularly by his lleagu bee he is gay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

He said the police did not take vlence agast gays serly. Not even funerals are safe for gays.

JAMAI: BEENIE MAN APOLOGIZ TO THE GAY COMMUNY

A year ago, jt down the road om the dispted dner party, a gay bsman’s funeral was terpted by a mob that gathered outsi the church. The pastor, who had not known the ad man was gay, prsed on, fur at the protters for what he nsired a filg of his church. No one was prosecuted the untry’s public fenr, Earl Wter, later nmned the vlence at the funeral, but he also rerced the mon view that if only gays would be ls flamboyant, there would be ls vlence agast them.

Speakg to the Manville Rotary Club last April, he urged Jamai’s gays to avoid flntg their sexual orientatn. ”As is, Jamai’s gays socialize at unrground nightclubs and worship at secret church servic that move around the island. The leadg gay rights anizatn, Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, mt lie low even as ph for societal Henry, a former lear of the group, fled to Canada last month, sayg he had grown tired of beg threatened.

“I’m fally able to be myself, to be an out gay man.