The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom (commentary)

[Natasha]

The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom

http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?ID=18838
4/28/2008

"Jamaican AIDS activist, Steve Harvey, was shot dead by a gang of men
who burst into his home in late 2005. Soon afterwards, Nokia Cowen
drowned when he jumped into Kingston harbour to escape a violent
homophobic mob. A few weeks later, Jamaica's trade ambassador Peter
King was found dead with his throat slashed and multiple stab wounds.
Then the mutilated bodies of two lesbians were found dumped in a
septic pit behind the house they shared."

[tekla]

Have you ever been to Jamaica?  Life ain't a whole lot better for the rest of the people there, gay, trans or straight.

[NicholeW.]

But most Americans who go to Jamaica don't necessarily know that, tekla. They stay in walled and electrified compounds of resorts. Safely removed from all that 'unseemely violence and poverty.'

N~

[tekla]

True that, but I went with roadies (with references, and a driver we were reffered to), we went to Bob Marley's grave, and got invited to our drivers town for a little party.  Jammin' Jamacian style.  We stopped to by a few - like six - cases of Red Stripe and felt like kings.  In the West people are all to used to how everything is so 'not poor' - when in fact, dirt poor is rich, lots of people can't even afford the dirt.