VICE News today prents Young And Gay: Jamai's Gully Queens. The crilly acclaimed seri returns to chronicle the unrground LGBT muny of Jamai…
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- YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI'S GULLY QUEENS (FULL LENGTH)
- YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI'S GULLY QUEENS
- WATCH – “YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI’S GULLY QUEENS” THE STORY OF JAMAI’S UNRGROUND LGBT YOUTH – FULL VIO
YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI'S GULLY QUEENS (FULL LENGTH)
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 * young and gay jamaica's gully queens 2014 *
“For me, what brought me to the gully [is that] people started fdg out that I’m gay my muny, ” Daggerg, the subject of a 2014 Vice documentary, explaed “Young and Gay: Jamai’s Gully Queens.
”Daggerg is one of nearly 25 gay and trans youths who, after beg expelled om their hom and rejected by their fai due to their sexual orientatns, took up rince the cy of Kgston’s storm dras, a place they refer to as the gully. ”Christo GeogheganLondon-based documentary photographer and journalist Christo Geoghegan chronicled the liv of the self-scribed Gully Queens ― the abe they’ve endured, the bonds they’ve formed, and the steps they’ve taken to brg an end to Jamai’s rampant homophobia.
“Homosexualy Jamai don’t have any hope, ” a Gully Queen told Geoghegan the Vice documentary. ”Christo GeogheganAs explaed the documentary, Jamai’s gay populatn is divid maly to two groups: the Rich Queens and the Sry Queens. The Rich Queens posss more wealth and stabily, th providg them sulatn om the most vlent outbursts of homophobia.
YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI'S GULLY QUEENS
"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.
WATCH – “YOUNG AND GAY: JAMAI’S GULLY QUEENS” THE STORY OF JAMAI’S UNRGROUND LGBT YOUTH – FULL VIO
"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.
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. 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.