WATCH: Jamain Gay Man Murred, Hoe Burned

Contents:

• DEXTER POTTGER AD: GAY ACTIVIST AND FACE OF JAMAI PRI FOUND MURRED HIS HOME
• TO JAMAI’S MURRED GAY IN DEXTER POTTGER #RTINPOWER
• VIO SHOWS GAY MAN STONED TO DEATH JAMAI
• TWO MORE GAY MEN KILLED JAMAI; PANEL SEEKS PROBE
• TEEN SET ABLAZE, LEFT FOR DEAD AFTER MEETG MAN FROM GAY DATG SE
• WATCH: JAMAIN GAY MAN MURRED, HOE BURNED

DEXTER POTTGER AD: GAY ACTIVIST AND FACE OF JAMAI PRI FOUND MURRED HIS HOME

Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailA Jamain gay activist dubbed “the face of Pri” has been found stabbed to ath his home, acrdg to Pottger, a fashn signer, was found ad on Thursday at his home the Washgton Garns neighbourhood of was blood “everywhere”, acrdg to police officers quoted by the Jamai Gleaner. Neighbours reported hearg screams the early hours of Wednday morng, the paper said, but did not tell police about the disturbance, was Pottger beme the face of Pri Week 2016 celebratns anised by the Jamai Fom of Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) the time he said: “I hope that my participatn will show members of J-FLAG that is okay to e out an atmosphere where there is no vlence, realise that ’s your time to be part of the change—not jt for the week but permanently as a part of the muny.

TO JAMAI’S MURRED GAY IN DEXTER POTTGER #RTINPOWER

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St.

VIO SHOWS GAY MAN STONED TO DEATH JAMAI

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St.

“People feel embolned to discrimate or be vlent.”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. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”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.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.

TWO MORE GAY MEN KILLED JAMAI; PANEL SEEKS PROBE

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.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.

TEEN SET ABLAZE, LEFT FOR DEAD AFTER MEETG MAN FROM GAY DATG SE

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.

Vcent Prime Mister Ralph Gonsalv was not returned.Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. 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. Last week, one of Jamai’s most prolific gay celebri was stabbed to ath his own home.

Over 80 per cent of Jamains believe that homosexualy is immoral, same sex activy is illegal and vlence agast the LGBT muny has ma the headl – proment gay activists like Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey have prevly been murred, while another activist sought refuge Canada after a mob watched as his iend drowned. I was, however, most trigued by how open he was as a gay man livg Jamai at a time few dared to do the same.

WATCH: JAMAIN GAY MAN MURRED, HOE BURNED

The planng mtee ‘admired his urage, sense of self, drive, relatnship wh his fay and iends, and pri beg Jamain and beg a gay man. 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.