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."

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

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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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.