-FLAG: Jamaica ‘progressively tolerant’ of gays but…
Thursday, July 12, 2012

LOBBY group Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) has responded to statements from a police expert that Jamaica is more tolerant of gays than previously thought.

In a statement yesterday Dane Lewis, executive director, the lobby group said in fact Jamaicans were “progressively tolerant”, and the country “has made some progress, albeit not uniformly as a society, in respecting the humanity, dignity and equality of LGBT persons”.
However, the group said, JFLAG is under no illusion that the sentiments expressed by persons like Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who had a “mature approach on the issue, in contrast to the confident bigotry displayed by her predecessor”, represent the view of the majority.
“We are still comfortable, as a nation, in expressing bigoted positions towards a community that wants no more than to love those adult persons who love them in return, free from the spectre of harassment, victimisation and persecution,” J-FLAG said.
“Admirable public statements and pockets of increased tolerance towards the LGBT community should not negate the reality of the discrimination and violence being experienced,” the group added. “J-FLAG receives almost daily calls, emails and walk-in reports of persons being kicked out of their homes, physically assaulted, raped and verbally abused because of who they are.”
The group had especially harsh words for Les Green, former assistant commissioner of police who last week rubbished a common claim by the gay community and international rights groups that homosexuals in Jamaica are victims of wanton murder, mob-mauling and marginalisation, and columnist Betty Ann Blaine, who said “when Les Green speaks people listen” in her column The Big Gay Lie.
The former Scotland Yard detective said his findings showed that the majority of gay killings are carried out by members of the gay community.
Blaine, for her part, said the gay community appears determined to achieve the wholesale societal acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, even if it goes against the country’s cultural norms and Christian beliefs
“The truth is that there needs to be a deeper analysis of these murder cases of persons in “relationships and domestic situations” from the usual resignation to ‘crime of passion’ label,” J-FLAG said.
“If a gay man is murdered in his home with no visible sign of forced entry it does not automatically mean his lover killed him. And even so, it must be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrator brought to justice nonetheless. Our willingness to park in this position and move no further is most startling… so many of us resign ourselves to a fallacy that gays are jealous and out to kill themselves.”
The group said Jamaica certainly has a vibrant thriving homosexual community, “no one denies this, but Jamaica has a far way to go in normalising its relationship with those of its citizens who find themselves being counted among the ‘other’.”

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Hi Met ,
This is the first time I’m emailing you , I’m a regular on your site and first off I have to say ….. I so love it …. The pics I have attached caught my eye the other day when I was on Nick Foto Works looking through recent party pics , The Toronto dance hall people have been on your site before and so has (Kirk) or as many know him as Go Out Kirk …. you know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words , well these pics have so much going on and I just want the Toronto people to come talk the tings So everyone says Kirk always a look woman at every party even though him wife Kay Goudas never let him go out by himself , she deh a every party right side a him , BTW Met , I didn’t know how to crop out the girl in the photo who was actually posing for the picture , as the background with Kirk and some girl is what caught my eye LOL ….. pic # 1 , Kirk a laugh with someone but you can’t see a who , pic # 2 hand holding a gwan and you can clearly see who he was smiling and chatting to …. pic # 3 wife notice how wife (Kay) a blank stare down smaddy LOL at Kay’s face …. looks like Kay fi drop the Goodas from her name , or should I say Goodas fi who ???? LMAO !

Bruce Golding declared a state of emergency and sent the security forces into Tivoli Gardens in 2010 supposedly to capture Dudus Coke. Coke walked out of Tivoli and ended up in a government-owned guest house in St. Ann. The security forces nevertheless went on to kill 73 to 200 people. Golding must be held to account for the role he played in these deaths. Just as Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for not stopping the massacre in Egypt.

I’m sleeping with my own biological brother and I can’t just stop it

I am a 35 year old single woman from one of the densely populated townships in Kitwe. Form the onset I must introduce my self that I am a sex worker, that is the job I do to feed myself.

I know many people will have difficulties in believing my story but it happened and I keep asking myself why I did that.

When the Zambia national soccer team was playing Ivory Coast in the finals of the Africa Cup this year in Gabon, I made a pledge to about 15 men I was watching football with in my small house that should Zambia lift the Cup for the first time, there were going to sleep with me as part of my contribution to my country. I am a serious soccer fan and I love football, this is why I was forced to make this pledge to the men.

While we were watching football we were busy drinking beer including spirits which I bought from the previous outing and when the Zambian player Stopila Sunzu scored the winning spot kick, many people in our community went in town celebrating but the men I was watching football with demanded that I fulfill my pledge, I told them not to worry and I instructed them to make a line from the sitting room and up to the bedroom and they started coming in one by one sleeping with me.

I remember towards the end a fight between the men ensued when one man took long while sleeping with, his friends beat him up for taking wrong.

What I did not know is that my young brother aged 27 who had gone to Ndola to visit returned the same day and was busy drinking beer with his friends within Kitwe and while I was sleeping with the men, my brother popped in and also joined the queue without knowing what the queue was and was the last person to sleep with me, after he finished sleeping with me, we all slept on the same bed and in the morning when we were all sober we were all shocked to find ourselves in our birth day suits, completely naked on the same bed. We all pretended like nothing happened.

My brother usually sleeps on the sitting or living room while I sleep in the bedroom, I must admit that both my brother and I we drink beer, I was shocked to find my brother on my bed demanding for sex two days later, we ended up having sex and since then a strong love has developed between the two of us and we sleep on the same bed. I also enjoy having sex with him because of his ability to learn new things while having sex. He has since stopped me from going into town to do my night business. Our parents died many years ago, we live all by ourselves.

I know what we are doing is bad but my brother says he loves me and that I made I mistake to sleep with him the first day and that he cannot stop. I have tried to stop but I have difficulties to stop. We have since relocated to another densely populated township within Kitwe because some people are aware of what is happening between the two of us.

Sister X.