Jamain believers mandg removal of 'gay pri' flag

Contents:

• JAMAI'S FIRST PUBLIC GAY PRI EVENT A SYMBOL OF CHANGE: 'IT FELT LIBERATG'
• JAMAI TO HOLD S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN THE ISLAND’S PAL
• GAY JAMAI TRAVEL GUI
• JAMAIN BELIEVERS MANDG REMOVAL OF 'GAY PRI' FLAG
• JAMAINS HOLD 1ST GAY PRI CELEBRATNS
• THERE ARE NO GAY PRI PARAS JAMAI
• HOW TO CELEBRATE PRI WHEN BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
• CORE CANNABIS/SEED DISPENSARY TO HOST GAY PRI BLOCK PARTY SUNDAY

JAMAI'S FIRST PUBLIC GAY PRI EVENT A SYMBOL OF CHANGE: 'IT FELT LIBERATG'

The Emancipennce holidays celebrate both the end of slavery 1838 and the untry’s break away om Brish lonial le this year has seen a very different kd of symbolic even, one that for LGBT mpaigners the untry marks an equally important moment the future velopment of this young started not wh a proclamatn or a flag beg hoisted up and down a pole but wh a flash mob, an art day and a chance for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Jamains to show thgs are changg for the JA was the first public gay pri celebratn the English-speakg Caribbean, after a siar event had to be nceled due to secury ncerns the Bahamas last year. For those volved the week’s activi – anised by JFLAG, the Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays – was a chance to be proud and visible.

”Jamai has often been scribed as one of the most homophobic untri the world, a untry where hostily toward gays and lbians is voiced om the church pulp to the sound activy between mal is illegal and threats of physil vlence and discrimatn are all too year JFLAG reported more than 80 homophobic cints cludg threats, physil attacks, sexual vlence and displacement, while the high-profile 2013 mob kilg of transgenr teen Dwayne Jon remas was a ncern for the anisers of PRIDE JA, said Latoya Nugent, JFLAG’s tn and outreach manager.

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

Print Obama’s vis to Jamai April was wily anticipated but he too faced protters upset that his vis might promote more tolerance toward the gay muny as s policians bid to improve s human rights rerd. It’s not only the law but ’s changg the hearts, the mds and attus of Jamains that’s gog to be difficult – we need to move people away om the mob mentaly, ” she Mister Portia Simpson Miller raised hop among gay rights activists the n-up to the 2011 electns, when she said she would not discrimate agast gay policians. Her ments offered a marked ntrast to the prev lear, Bce Goldg, who vowed he would never allow a gay member his bet; but many activists now feel that Miller missed an opportuny for change..

Nearly five years later, the lonial-era legislatn that outlaws homosexualy remas on the statut. 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. 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.

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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”.

JAMAIN BELIEVERS MANDG REMOVAL OF 'GAY PRI' FLAG

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. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

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