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Title: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom (commentary)
Post by: Natasha on April 28, 2008, 06:03:23 PM
Post by: Natasha on April 28, 2008, 06:03:23 PM
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."
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."
Title: Re: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom (commentary)
Post by: tekla on April 28, 2008, 06:16:06 PM
Post by: tekla on April 28, 2008, 06:16:06 PM
Have you ever been to Jamaica? Life ain't a whole lot better for the rest of the people there, gay, trans or straight.
Title: Re: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom (commentary)
Post by: NicholeW. on April 28, 2008, 06:40:45 PM
Post by: NicholeW. on April 28, 2008, 06:40:45 PM
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.'
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Title: Re: The Global Struggle for Queer Freedom (commentary)
Post by: tekla on April 28, 2008, 06:47:12 PM
Post by: tekla on April 28, 2008, 06:47:12 PM
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.