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Damion Crawford State Minister in the ministry of tourism in a follow up interview on CVM TV’s Direct with host Garfield Burford on Wednesday March 13th tried to explain his recent comments at a function that was carried as a news item on the same television station on the promised Buggery Law Review by his boss Prime Minister Portia Simpson Prime Minister Miller who in the run up to the last general elections promised a review of the law along with a conscience vote on the matter. Mr. Crawford as extensively reported in a previous post has satirically suggested that no gay member of parliament is going to come forward and he doubted that the issue would be even raised in parliament.
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Who am I - Mr. H
Mr. H
Kingston, West Indies, Jamaica
I am a 39 y/old single Gay Jamaican previously involved in Interventions at JFLAG & HIV work at Jamaica AIDS Support for Life & still volunteers for other NGOs in similar veins. I'm concerned about the lack of free flow of information about The Jamaican Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered experiences hence my Blogs & Network pages playing my part in allowing expression & cross fertilization of ideas between the various groups.
Gay Jamaica Watch blog was started as Sunshine Cathedral Jamaica on 20/2/08 while The GLBTQJA blog was started as JFLAG on 8/5/08 both I have renamed to reflect my points of view and to encourage more conversations on LGBTQI issues from a Jamaican standpoint outside of the advocacy structure for solutions. Thanks for your support and words of encouragement & donations, Donate today safely via paypal, so I can continue this activity. All donations go to GLBTQ Jamaica for Research & Development, Blog continuity.
I can be reached at: lgbtevent@gmail.com or glbtqjamaica@live.com
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I am depressed by the attitude towards the queer community in this country. I can’t even say community because I see no unity, I hear whispers of fear. It breaks my heart to imagine what being a gay man in this country is like, as lonely as a closet gay in Jamaica should be an actual saying. Its so apt.
Even if I would want to be light hearted and say I am a queer woman seeking a HEA, I can’t. How can our people preach about Christianity and God and yet be so cavalier about the murders and injustices visited upon a fellow human being? The main teaching of the Christ was love. Each man is my brother. How much is too much?
Personally, my experiences are nothing compared to the horror stories I hear, I think about GullyQueen who went to the dance in drag and was murdered and his family didn’t even claim his body. My heart broke because he was just a kid and nobody deserves that. When do we stop being people and simply become “Batty-man and Chi-Chi gyal”? At what point, during exploring just what it means to be me and a little bit different, do I forfeit my life. Lesbians and Bi-sexuals are able to blend more easily but what happens when I don’t want to blend anymore? What happens when I want the world to know i’m in love like any other couple?
I’ve been called “Dyke” out of malice, and have had men say I haven’t had the right penis, and have had people afraid to catch the gay I know girls who have been punched in the face for being gay. But the tide is turning for lesbians because main stream media has decided that Lesbians are sexy, and men just say “Can I watch?” now. But what about the men in the gay comm-lacks-unity? Where is their tide? I think the act of love is sexy and beautiful no matter who is engaged in it. And for the love of God stop equating Pedophilia with Homosexuality! And did Betty Blaine seriously say 74% of our kids have been buggered? Stop fear mongering. Fight Ignorance with Information.
And if any lonely mature woman who reads wants to get involved with an emotionally damaged INTP personality who is also cute and can be funny, I’m single and searching.
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thanks for sharing your thoughts and Miss Betty is always known for her alarmist approach to LGBT matters often conflating homosexuality with paedophilia for e.g, http://glbtqjamaica.blogspot.com/2012/12/betty-ann-blaine-foreign-religious.html
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