ON THIS NOTE- LOVING THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSES

I am putting up this thread because I want all of you who log on to say without fear of us being angry…if you have ever seen or experienced homophobic violence in Jamaica. How did they treat gays in your area,we need to hear all of your voices for all the world to hear (see/read)

http://www.dancehallmusic.de/archives/2007/interview-tanya-stephens/

Darktales: Talking about “Rebelution” and the tune “Do you still care” – do you think some artist in Jamaica don’t have the courage to say what they think or what they feel?

Tanya Stephens: [giggling] …

I don’t know… Well I’m a little bit away from the music industry in Jamaica. I live in the countryside and I don’t see many artists or musicians. I just see my band and myself, so I don’t know what goes on in the minds of the people. I just know that the image that is being painted of Jamaica doesn’t represent me. And it doesn’t represent many people from my community. I have a responsibility to recount what it is out there. The picture that’s being painted is that we are homophobic and that we are overly aggressive and violent towards people who have different choices from us. That’s not true. Jamaica is a nation which is made out of many and this is still true. It always has been true. Every kind of person lives in Jamaica and that’s why I have felt to do this. I don’t know about anybody artist, but the few guys who are talking crap, they don’t represent all of Jamaica.

THIS WAS IN 2007… I AM WONDERING IF JAMAICA CHANGED SINCE 2007?

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‎”JAMAICA has been in my head with great LOVE and absolute FEAR. The harsh reality that people like ME are persecuted, beaten, jailed, raped and murdered everyday JUST for being who they are or JUST EVEN BEING SUSPECTED OF IT. It’s what I saw too many times growing up in SPANISH TOWN and living in KINGSTON and it scared me to death. As a Jamaican i am deeply upset abt what u said abt Jamaica, and that Jamaicans who also comment on this did not realized or cared abt what was said, “all these can say its ur life and nuff love and respect” You are an international artist and when u say things like that u are bashing Jamaica as if we need anymore bashing than what we have been getting, yes Jamaica is a violent society and we are not HOMOPHOBIC WE ARE CHRISTIANS! and unlike America we dont comprise our RELIGION! yes its ur life style and what Gay ppl seem to 4get is that we dont care we just dont want u to force us to accept ur lifestyle and this is exactly what they are doing come on GAY PARADES? GAY MARRIAGES? Britain threatening cut off ties with Caribbean countries that doesnt suppose gay rights?
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Ariel Perkins Your conscience box was full and over flowing …set your conscience free

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U also blame the society in which u grew up in as a part of the reason why u didnt come out, but darling we are society, we make up society and people are forgetting the spiritual morals of which we were taught and that is why the world will never be better, and some of u make it seem like Jamaica is the only country that doesnt like Gay ppl what abt the Middle east some them would be killed instantly!!! i live in Jamaica and i’ve never heard that A GAY PERSON WAS RAPED, OR GAYS ARE BEING MURDERED EVERYDAY THATS THE BIGGEST LIE EVER! Gays do get beaten only because they make it obvious or do their nastiness in public and in some cases they are jail because they like to dress up as women and trick men into thinking they are and when they find out they get beaten by them and this cases happen in Clarendon once. and if the violence is so rampant in KINGSTON as you said they why dont we go to NEW KINGSTON and killed them when there roaming the streets at nites? busily screwing who they want to in cars etc…?
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The Jamaicans who are on this and didnt speak out ya’ll are unpatriotic assholes! and then the whole subject of God… Hmmm yes God loves all of us doesnt he? yes we already know that part! But get to the part where he was can also be an angry God? or we forgetting the days of sodom and gomorrah? Genesis 6:3 “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” so enjoy ur Lifestyle as if we didnt know u were GAY ALL ALONG! U AND MAYBE U JUST DECIDED TO COME NOW FOR MAYBE IDK PUBLICITY SINCE NO ONE HAS HEARD ABT U IN YRS LEAVE JAMAICA OUT OF UR CRAP!
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Čĥęňǻė Łǒřđ ‎@BrendetteAllen Exactly! i personally dont care enuh what caught my eye was what she said what jamaica and that gays are being rape and killed everyday which is not true and just making Us Jamaicans look bad but more importantly our country looks bad she’s a hypocrite sayin she loves her country and at the sametime bashing it!

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‎@Chenae girl we have always known and we did not give a shit about whether shi gay or st8 and for her to be saying she never said it before bcoz she feared we would have rejected her is bullshit bcoz if that was d case we would b asking Diana Who? I hate when people try to blame all their bullshit on Jamaicans…Diana d gaydar went on a long time ago even when u tried to deceive us with shy guy. Bottom line we dont give a shit or will ever give a shit..Peter Phillips budget more interesting..so try ur publicity stunt elsewhere..
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