(photo added June 17, 2013)
In Jamaica today many in the anti gay lobby flex their muscles every now and again by grabbing a Bible or the law books and beating us over the head damming us to hell already and saying homosexuals are trying to promote homosexuality as if it's some contagious disease that you get on touch or contact and reminding us buggery is illegal.
Homosexuality needs no promotion it exists and is what it is. Like minded persons will find each other without need for a sign or marketing.
Some including lawyers and journalists also make the sad mistake to say homosexuality is illegal when it is not, morality cannot be legislated and this is not a theocracy though by the looks of it we are slowly getting there. It is buggery, the physical act of anal penetration that the law is concerned with not the other factors and stereotypes of the "gay lifestyle" as they repeatedly call it.
They also seem to forget that heterosexuals also practice anal sex when presenting their arguments. Intertwined and interwoven in all of that is the hypocrisy and classism where many of these same "moralists" mainly from middle and upper class Jamaica who speak out in public on airwaves and in print through sometimes hateful letters to the respective editors and or editorials have gay friends in their social circles but of course they are rich and educated so those are spared the insults, innuendo and rage that is presented otherwise.
This same anti gay lobby which includes learned professionals, Members of Parliament, legal and religious luminaries would much prefer if we kept our "filth" as MP Ernest Smith calls it to ourselves as he said in a recent interview presented on a Worldfocus report about stigma on homosexuals in Jamaica and HIV. The gay haters pontificate with great pomp and ceremony using the "majority" opinion that battyman fi dead (gays are to die) or at least we must not be seen or heard.
NEVER 4GET THIS FOLKS:
Ernie Smith has been unable to prove his statements about gays being violent, if gays were violent half the stuff that reach us including the horrific acts of homophobic violence would have been responded to or be less as people wouldn't mess with us to begin with. Doesn't he realize that we are in a failed state right now?
also see: "Keep it to Yuself mentality" on homosexuality part 2 .... on "str8 Jamaica (part 1 linked) and Homophobic Violence Ernie Smith & Venom from GLBTQ Jamaica's Blog.
Yet while all this is going on the proposed Charter of Rights has been stalling in the Senate and in the house we are then told that consensual buggery is also illegal in the recently updated Sexual Offences Bill get the full PDF version here so the Charter when I last saw it speaks to the right to privacy and the whole question of the domain or threshold of ones home or owned premises is sacred is meaningless then. If I as an adult choose to have sex with another man and the state really wants to get me, whether consensual or not I can be prosecuted even by breaking down my door without a warrant I guess to lock me up on a suspicion simply because I am making love to a man. I don't think we as LGBT people realise how real this is. Oral sex is also covered in the new Bill as well but they have cleverly make it gender neutral along with buggery I think this is so as to avoid the criticism that gays were specially targeted in designing the law.
Why guarantee a right to privacy and then challenge it with pieces of legislation that impedes on that right so profoundly? it doesn't make sense or am I wrong here? There is no protection under our constitution as a matter of fact from any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation presently and any attempts to even remotely go there is viewed as a back door to the promotion of homosexuality which is conflated with abuse of children.
Tolerance:
We seem to think tolerance means that someone gays are gonna get up and try to homosexualise everyone, as far as I am concerned you are either gay, straight, bisexual or any other variant of sexuality that identifies you it depends on if one chooses to act on it. Why can't we all just get along? we readily watch North American and Jamaican gay themed movies, plays and listen to artists Elton John, Rupaul and George Michael who ironically Elton and George's music is popular here played even by the homophobic of DJs on radio and in the dancehall & mixtapes sometimes yet we get worked up over homosexuals or the supposed lifestyles.
I think we have the capacity to co exist with ease if we only try or want to. The stereotypical images of gays are often made into comedy although sometimes it teeters on homophobia with an aire of cynicism and scorn. Respecting people's rights and freedoms from both ends must become the benchmark where we move from, all people can't be the same and people must be free to choose as long as it does not impede greatly on another individual and the nation in general.
Yet while all this is going on the proposed Charter of Rights has been stalling in the Senate and in the house we are then told that consensual buggery is also illegal in the recently updated Sexual Offences Bill get the full PDF version here so the Charter when I last saw it speaks to the right to privacy and the whole question of the domain or threshold of ones home or owned premises is sacred is meaningless then. If I as an adult choose to have sex with another man and the state really wants to get me, whether consensual or not I can be prosecuted even by breaking down my door without a warrant I guess to lock me up on a suspicion simply because I am making love to a man. I don't think we as LGBT people realise how real this is. Oral sex is also covered in the new Bill as well but they have cleverly make it gender neutral along with buggery I think this is so as to avoid the criticism that gays were specially targeted in designing the law.
Why guarantee a right to privacy and then challenge it with pieces of legislation that impedes on that right so profoundly? it doesn't make sense or am I wrong here? There is no protection under our constitution as a matter of fact from any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation presently and any attempts to even remotely go there is viewed as a back door to the promotion of homosexuality which is conflated with abuse of children.
Tolerance:
We seem to think tolerance means that someone gays are gonna get up and try to homosexualise everyone, as far as I am concerned you are either gay, straight, bisexual or any other variant of sexuality that identifies you it depends on if one chooses to act on it. Why can't we all just get along? we readily watch North American and Jamaican gay themed movies, plays and listen to artists Elton John, Rupaul and George Michael who ironically Elton and George's music is popular here played even by the homophobic of DJs on radio and in the dancehall & mixtapes sometimes yet we get worked up over homosexuals or the supposed lifestyles.
I think we have the capacity to co exist with ease if we only try or want to. The stereotypical images of gays are often made into comedy although sometimes it teeters on homophobia with an aire of cynicism and scorn. Respecting people's rights and freedoms from both ends must become the benchmark where we move from, all people can't be the same and people must be free to choose as long as it does not impede greatly on another individual and the nation in general.
Peace and tolerance
H
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3 comments:
Things like this makes me NEVER want to visit Jamaica...
the country in general moves on and we as gays survive despite the bull that comes across at times.
I would suggest if you do decide to come make sure you are mobile and have friends who can guide you around.
Avoid outward displays of affection too, that's a no no.
H
I believe Mr. Golding said that no one would be prosecuted under the buggery laws if activity was behind closed doors.
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