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Sunday, May 18
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Source: Associated Press , Earth Times , ABC News (Australia) HAVANA -- Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness -- and high-ranking political alliances -- with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday. Several hundred gay men and women gathered at an outdoor cultural center for a rare display of public solidarity. The meeting at a convention center in Havana's Vedado district may have been the largest gathering of openly gay activists ever on the communist-run island. President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela, who has promoted the rights of sexual minorities...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: Toronto Star and New York Times Mandeville police officer Michael Hayden seeks asylum in Canada photo: New York Times A Jamaican police officer says he's living in fear after coming out as a gay man and hopes to come to Canada where he can safely speak up on behalf of other gay Jamaicans. Michael Hayden, who has been on the police force for four years, said other officers routinely attacked and abused him after becoming suspicious of his sexual preferences. A couple of weeks back, a local tabloid, The Jamaica Star, ran a screaming headline when Hayden, disturbed by the attack on the...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Washington Blade , Jamaica Gleaner , and Radio Jamaica Leaders of the US-based Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) led a demonstration in Miami on Thursday to protest a series of reported anti-gay murders and gay-bashing incidents in Jamaica. The church also sponsored protests at consulates in New York, Toronto and Philadelphia. In response to the protests, some leaders of churches in Jamaica issued a strong condemnation of homosexuality. Rev. Nancy Wilson, MCC’s leader, and a contingent of religious leaders from the MCC’s Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale met with Jamaican Consulate...
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Thursday, February 14
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Source: CBC News and PinkNews A prominent member of gay rights group J-FLAG, Jamaica's Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, is claiming refugee status in Canada. Gareth Henry, who spoke at Pride London last year about the plight of lesbian and gay people in his country, told CBC News that 13 of his friends have been killed in the last four years. One 22-year-old friend who was suspected of being gay was chased by a mob, Henry told CBC News. The only place he could run to was the harbour. He couldn't swim. "Everyone," said Henry, "stood and watched him drown." On...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Express Gay News and Jamaica Gleaner The leader of the Metropolitan Community Churches, a worldwide assembly of gay and lesbian congregants, is calling for an International Day of Action Feb. 14 in response to a bloody attack against three gay men in Jamaica. Rev. Nancy Wilson and leaders of the MCC are gathering GLBT supporters and human rights activists to protest at Jamaican embassies around the world. “We’re just horrified,” Wilson said of the Jan. 29 attack, which left two men seriously injured with machete wounds and one man presumed to be dead. The attack also prompted a letter of...
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