Currently tourg the ternatnal film ftival circu is director/poducer Selena Blake's feature documentary tled Taboo Yardi . Here's how 's scribed: It’s not illegal to be gay Jamai but legal sanctn is the least of your worri. Jamain society is profoundly and murroly homophobic. This utterly pellg acunt of how ordary LGBT people exist unr the ndns was filmed on the island self. Extraordary stori of vlence and the nstant livg fear make for sometim unfortable viewg. Interview subjects tell of the sual and relentls attacks; their fac are digally obscured bee there is nowhere for an openly gay person to be safe on the island. The relatnship between dancehall culture and some of s notor artists is well known. Usg terviews wh a wi range of Jamains and leadg cultural figur exile, this is a wi-rangg film which explor how Jamai got to be this way, and how some people are...
Contents:
- ACROSS JAMAI'S GAY DIVI
- YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI'S GULLY QUEENS
- 'THE ABOMABLE CRIME' GAY DOCUMENTARY FEATURG JAMAI BUTS US
- DOCUMENTARY EXPOS HARSH VLENCE AGAST GAY PEOPLE IN JAMAI
- FILM: “THE ABOMABLE CRIME,” DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BEG GAY JAMAI DEBUTS US
- THE DOCUMENTARY ACROSS JAMAI'S GAY DIVI EPISOS EPISO GUI
- VIO: GAY MEN RUN OUT OF TOWN BY JAMAIN MOB
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
ACROSS JAMAI'S GAY DIVI
Young and Gay: Jamai's Gully Queens: Directed by Adri Murguia. In Jamai, attacks, murr, and rape are mon occurrenc agast LGBTI people, wh ltle to no retributn or jtice brought agast those rponsible. After beg forced om shacks, relict buildgs, and their own fai, many homels LGBTI Jamains have found refuge the storm draage systems of Kgston - known lolly as the gully. For trans girls and gay men unable or unwillg to hi their sexualy, the sense of muny and relative safety the gully provis acts as a wele sanctuary, and for many, a hope of change to e. VICE News traveled to the New Kgston area to see what LGBTI life is like Jamai - where jt beg who you are n mean livg a life unrground." data-id="ma * gay in jamaica documentary *
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Psychologist Dr Keon Wt asss the mpaigns for and agast homosexualy Jamai. The social psychologist Dr Keon Wt returns to his native Jamai to asss the state of the untry’s gay rights and anti-homosexualy movements.
YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI'S GULLY QUEENS
Jamai is known for beach and warm weather, but for many gay and lbian people livg on the island, 's a place of hatred. A documentary, The Abomable Crime sh a light on homophobia and anti-gay vlence Jamai. Host Michel Mart fds out more om filmmaker Mih Fk and human rights activist Mrice Tomlson. This segment ially aired July 22, 2013 on Tell Me More. * gay in jamaica documentary *
Gay rights activists ma the first legal challenge Jamai's history earlier this year, appealg for the so-lled ‘buggery law’ to be re-asssed. The law, which is a lonial legacy prohibg certa sexual acts, is the foc of much ntroversy Jamai and at s heart is the qutn of whether or not homosexualy is culturally or even morally acceptable.
'THE ABOMABLE CRIME' GAY DOCUMENTARY FEATURG JAMAI BUTS US
An ternatnal documentary—Mih Fk’s The Abomable Crime—which says that beg gay Jamai n be a ath sentence, premiered the U.S. ( Washgton, D.C.) today. The film foc foc on gay Jamains who say they have been forced to flee their untry and face the risks and challeng of seekg asylum abroad due to… * gay in jamaica documentary *
From a group of activists standg silently promotg gay tolerance, to a march that lls for sexual pury, cludg matag of the Buggery Law, Wt speaks to both sis, askg if attus are now exorably changg. The Christian tradn of Jamai is central to this bate, where Biblil terpretatn unrps many of the arguments agast homosexual behavur. Wh ntributns om the pastor Reverend Lenworth Angl, the proment Jamain gay rights activist Mrice Tomlson and Rastafarian poet Mutabaka, Wt nsirs what is like to be a gay person Jamai om day-to-day, when many nsir this ‘liftyle’ to be un-Jamain by s very nature.
(Photo: The riversi bar where Jamain teenager Dwayne Jon attend a dance party and was murred by a mob for beg gay. "Jamai is a homophobic society, " is the plaly stated fact the openg scene of Vice News' new documentary, Young and Gay: Jamai's Gully Queens. "We grow up to dislike homosexuals.
We grow up to hate homosexualy. It is the send stallment a seri Vice is producg unr the moniker "Young and Gay. " It follows on the heels of Young and Gay Put's is never easy Kgston's gully life.
DOCUMENTARY EXPOS HARSH VLENCE AGAST GAY PEOPLE IN JAMAI
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That's evint durg a scene which some gully rints unveil srred necks, arms and torsos -- battle srs of their prediment as LGBT people one of the wtern hemisphere's most vlently homophobic youth are faced wh Jamai's "murky history" wh homophobia and the ongog tug-of-war about a lonial-era anti-buggery law fought between the untry's relig-nservative groups and s more progrsive polil tablishment.
But as soon as their peaceful monstratn starts, drivers shout antigay slurs as they film pellgly portrays how homophobia and transphobia are so engraed Jamain culture that the tragedy of the young LGBT Jamains seems lost on a ernment official terviewed.
FILM: “THE ABOMABLE CRIME,” DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BEG GAY JAMAI DEBUTS US
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. A vio filmed by Jamai LGBT News is makg s way around the Inter. The Jamai LGBT News terviewed a young man who * gay in jamaica documentary *
The Jamai Observer reports that Deputy Police Supertennt Christopher Murdock has proposed a homels shelter where "gay men New Kgston n accs meditn, psychologil evaluatn, unselg and skills trag. Ironilly, as Gay Star News reports, some of the anizers of the meetg were volved closg down a shelter that once existed to serve the same populatn those same anizers say need a shelter Vice's Young and Gay: Jamai's Gully Queens the vio below:. Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 1:42 PMAn ternatnal documentary allegg that beg gay Jamai n be a ath sentence is set to but the US pal, Washgton DC productn tled 'The Abomable Crime' by Mih Fk, will foc on gay Jamains who say they have been forced to flee their untry and face the risks and challeng of seekg asylum film will be screened several tim over the next week as part of a week-long film ftival produced by the US-based Pulzer Center on Crisis documentary alleg that tolerance is accepted Jamai and beg gay here n be a ath participants the documentary clu former parliamentarian and attorney-at-law Ernt Smh who spoke of his views agast homosexualy.
"I don't hate homosexuals, I tt their filthy ways, " says Smh the documentary. The Abomable Crime, a film that giv voice to gay Jamains forced to flee their homeland due to enmic anti-gay vlence, will nclu the seventh season of AoPoP: The Ultimate Exchange. In 2006, TIME magaze wrote that Jamai was perhaps “the most homophobic place on Earth.
THE DOCUMENTARY ACROSS JAMAI'S GAY DIVI EPISOS EPISO GUI
€ The island natn is renowned for s anti-gay vlence, wh homosexuals facg asslt, stabbgs, rape and even murr. Mih Fk’s The Abomable Crime, named after the Jamain law that crimaliz homosexual acts, tak viewers beyond the headl to the real-life dividuals affected by anti-gay vlence.
VIO: GAY MEN RUN OUT OF TOWN BY JAMAIN MOB
“My hope is that The Abomable Crime will help shatter stereotyp about gays and lbians, says Fk. “We enurage viewers to take a eper look at homophobia, cludg some of the long-term impacts of on dividuals and on the Jamain society at large, cludg on the battle agast the HIV panmic.
“Mih has brought an extraordary human touch to the issue of anti-gay sentiment and attacks Jamai by troducg dienc to two brave souls eply affected by , †not NBPC executive director Llie Fields-Cz.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "THE ABOMINABLE CRIME")UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: A man was killed after a heated argument wh men who labeled him as homosexual. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: The bodi of two men who are believed to have been homosexuals were found an open lot on Trafalgar Road. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #4: This is the send choppg cint recent tim the The film is lled "The Abomable Crime" and follows the personal stori of several gay and lbian people Jamai.
I recently spoke wh filmmaker Mih Fk and gay rights activist and lawyer, Mrice Tomlson, who was featured the documentary. Jamai has one of the hight AIDS rat the gay muny the world. And one of the social factors is the rampant homophobia that has e - to some gree - to fe current ntemporary Jamain Mrice, I jt want to mentn here, by tra, you're an tellectual property rights lawyer.
How did you bee a gay rights activist? But once I started talkg to people about their rights as LGBT, started forcg me to nont some issu that I wasn't very willg to do then I started, rponse, wrg to the newspapers, jt terrogatg, why are we so homophobic? I mean, homosexualy remas a crimal act.