It was hell growg up Jamai – gay man | News | Jamai Gleaner

Contents:

• IAN BOYNE: GAY-IENDLY UNSELLORS FOR STUNTS?
• GAY JAMAI TRAVEL GUI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS JAMAI
• IT WAS HELL GROWG UP JAMAI – GAY MAN
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS JAMAI
• GAY MAGN, M.M. ’03, LEADS ALPHA SCHOOL OF MIC JAMAI

IAN BOYNE: GAY-IENDLY UNSELLORS FOR STUNTS?

The Natnal Parent-Teacher Associatn of Jamai (NPTAJ) has reacted wh alarm to the offer of help by Jamai's gay lobby group to ease the plight of gay stunts schools who are allegedly beg shunned by guidance unsellors. "The NPTAJ rejects totally the offer ma by J-FLAG (Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays) to nduct unsellg schools, " s print, Everton Hannam, said a release last week.

What exactly is expected of them vis-·-vis gay stunts or stunts stgglg wh their sexual inty? Support to accept their gay inty? Is jt "support" to al wh the prejudice and discrimatn that gay people Jamai face?

GAY JAMAI TRAVEL GUI

Michael Abrahams says his Monday lumn that " unsellg gay stunts, one is not obliged to say that homosexualy is good, right, natural or moral. That guidance unsellor n be profsnal, "objective", tached, value-ntral and all those fe thgs, but how do he help that child pe "guilt and shame" when that unsellor's relign se homosexualy as morally unacceptable?

Junr go on to say the pot is not whether homosexualy is illegal or immoral: "It should be the psychologil welfare of the child. In the cultured spisers' view, the psychologil welfare of the child is synonymo wh that child's acceptg his homosexualy and abandong the futile stggle to supprs . Their iology matas that homosexualy is disorred, unnatural, immoral and psychologilly unhealthy.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS JAMAI

The mimum is that they mt never, never ever shun any gay stunt.

The Christian guidance unsellor mt work passnately to culte a culture of tolerance for gay people.

IT WAS HELL GROWG UP JAMAI – GAY MAN

Christian guidance unsellors mt regard as a part of their Christian duty to stand agast any discrimatn agast gay stunts. If a guidance unsellor hears that a gay stunt is beg persecuted at home; if parents are threateng to put him out of the hoe, ill-treatg him, sndalisg him, etc., that unsellor mt immediately meet those parents and show - even om the Bible - how utterly wrong those approach are.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS JAMAI

The Christian guidance unsellor mt do everythg to ensure that the gay stunt is not harassed, victimised, publicly shamed or discrimated agast. He mt ensure that fay members treat that gay stunt no ls than other members of the fay. The guidance unsellor mt help stunts, teachers, admistrative staff at the school and members of the gay stunts' muni and fai to chew vlence, discrimatn and harassment.

He mt help them to embrace the gay stunts as full, equal human begs worthy of all love. Now is here that my gay rears will scream nscensn. For I bet you that after I have outled the most passnate and tolerant approach to gay stunts, pro-gay rears will still not be pleased.

GAY MAGN, M.M. ’03, LEADS ALPHA SCHOOL OF MIC JAMAI

Gay fundamentalists will accept nothg ls than the full acceptance of homosexualy as normal, moral and acceptable. There should be no more tolerance for the view that homosexualy is immoral or abnormal than the view that the Earth is flat, gay fundamentalists believe. But nservative Christians will never accept that homosexualy is morally acceptable.

Que ankly, gays should be happy that some fundamentalist guidance unsellors are shunng stunts. Perhaps J-FLAG needs to anise s own unsellg servic where s own gay-iendly unsellors n offer a unterview to what is beg offered our schools, many of them Church-based. Make e of social media heavily so that gay stunts have an alternative.

For you n't pend on Christian guidance unsellors to go beyond tolerance and passnate engagement to full acceptance of homosexualy.