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• 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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

TO JAMAI’S MURRED GAY IN DEXTER POTTGER #RTINPOWER

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. 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.

VIO SHOWS GAY MAN STONED TO DEATH JAMAI

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.

Though the paper found wispread animosy toward gays, younger and more ted people exprsed much ls tolerance. Men, and pecially those who listen to dancehall mic, were found to be the most homophobic. An official human rights missn for North and South Ameri has lled on Jamai to vtigate the recent killgs of two reportedly gay men and to punish those rponsible.

TWO MORE GAY MEN KILLED JAMAI; PANEL SEEKS PROBE

Jamai has a reputatn as an tensely homophobic natn, spe new Prime Mister Portia Simpson-Miller’s posn agast discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. She has also suggted a review of the untry’s buggery laws, which provi for prison sentenc of up to 10 years for male homosexual activy.

The Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights, or IACHR, said lol activists for LGBT rights say eight gay men have been murred Jamai wh the last three months. The Commissn ntu to receive rmatn on killgs, torture, arbrary arrts, and other forms of vlence and excln agast lbians, gays, and trans, bisexual, and tersex persons the ntent.

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

IACHR Conmns Murr of Two Gay Men Jamai. – The Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights (IACHR) nmns the killg Kgston, Jamai, of two men who, acrdg to the civil society anizatns and media outlets, were gay. Acrdg to a lol LGTB anizatn, this occurred a ntext of severe vlence agast the LGTB muny Jamai, where eight gay men have been murred wh the last three months, among other reported acts of vlence.

PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. I said y bee Amerin's have had so much to say about the plight of queer people plac like Iran and Afghanistan but for s have ignored the murrs of lbian women, gay men, and trans men and women Jamai... One of the people featured on the podst is the Jamain-Amerin gay pastor who started the first safe hoe his home Jamai and through donatns and his own money has been able to slowly build a work of other ho.

Like most transgenrs and gays Jamai, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.

WATCH: JAMAIN GAY MAN MURRED, HOE BURNED

"Internatnal advocy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile untry the Wtern Hemisphere for gays and transgenred people. After two proment gay rights activists were murred, a rearcher wh the U.

"Lol activists have sce disputed that label, but still say homophobia is pervasive. Dwayne's horrific July 22 murr has ma headl newspapers on the island and stirred lls some quarters for dog more to protect Jamai's gay muny, pecially those who live on the streets and rort to sex work. Advot say much of the homophobia is fueled by a nearly 150-year-old anti-sodomy law that bans anal sex as well as by dancehall reggae performers who flnt anti-gay them.

The island's ma gay rights group timated that two homosexual men were killed for their sexual orientatn last year, and 36 were the victims of mob years, Jamai's gay muny has lived so far unrground that their parti and church servic were held secret lotns. Most gays have stuck to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy of keepg their sexual orientatn hidn to avoid scty or protect loved on. "Judgg by ments ma on social media, most Jamains thk Dwayne Jon brought his ath on himself for wearg a drs and dancg a society that has ma abundantly clear that homosexuals are neher to be seen nor heard, " said Annie Pl, a blogger and publitns officer at Jamai's mp of the Universy of the Wt say the hostily partly stems om the legacy of slavery when black men were sometim sodomized as punishment or huiatn.