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The Evil Twin
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posted 12 March 2006 04:51 PM
What shocks me is the extreme homophobia being expressed by school officials. The tone of the article itself is sensationalistic, sort of like "the aliens are coming...run hide!". I'm sickened that that one of Jamaica's most respected papers, the Gleaner would print such a "Weekly World News" style of hysterical homophobic garbage. Some examples from the article:----------------- A senior official, who requested anonymity, told The Sunday Gleaner that the homosexual behaviour among the girls is spreading like a fungus. "The recruitment is heavy. Every time we get rid of a big batch we have to deal with the recruited ones," the senior official told our news team.
----------- Still the girls bemoaned that witnessing the gross behaviour being displayed by the gay girls makes them feel uncomfortable. -------------------- A concerned teacher from St. Hughs told The Sunday Gleaner that "lesbianism has gotten rampant" on the campus. ----------------------- I just lost a lot of respect for the Jamaica Gleaner and for school officials.
From: Toronto | Registered: Jan 2006
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Hephaestion
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posted 13 March 2006 08:24 AM
Further to:
quote: The percentage of ignorant homophobes among the teaching staff is about the same as it is in the general population -- disgustingly high.
I direct your attention to this article from the Jamaica Observer:
quote: Father encourages students to maul 'gay' son at Dunoon Tech: Police also stoned in school riot
Thursday, February 19, 2004
In notoriously homophobic Jamaica gay men can hardly expect protection even from their parents - as was made very clear yesterday.
A father, concerned that his son might be gay, turned up at the Dunoon Park Technical High School in east Kingston and apparently encouraged other students to beat the boy, an eleventh grader.
"Them bruck up desk and bench and beat him up badly," one Dunoon student told the Observer. "Him get nuff lick, box, kick and thump from boy and girl."
The boy's name was withheld by school officials and the extent of his injuries was not immediately known. But whatever they were, it would have been worse were it not for the intervention of ancillary staff. [my emphasis]
According to students and teachers at the school, the boy's father apparently found pictures of nude men in the boy's school bag.
Infuriated, he turned up at the school yesterday with the pictures and encouraged the mob to turn on his son. As students began to maul his son, the man is reported to have driven away.
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According to a teacher at the school, people from outside the school joined in the fracas.
"They were intent on killing him," this teacher said. "They were like a pack of wild animals who had smelled blood and if it wasn't for a staff member who jumped on top of him, you would be reporting on a mob killing."
The teacher described the behaviour of the student's father as "careless".
"A me save him," an ancillary staff member told the Observer. "Me have to jump on him and shield him cause them was going to kill him. Me get a whole heap of licks, but me push him in the office and lock him in."
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"We went to the school to calm down a situation and protect the students and they turn around and fling stones on us," an Elletson Road police office complained. "What has the society come to?"
Note, if you will, that it was "ancillary staff" who jumped in to save the boy, not a teacher, and that the teacher never described the attack or the father's actions as anything worse than "careless". Also note that the cop reserved his indignation not for the attack on a young boy by a mob, but for the fact that they attacked him.
Some further reading:
From the gully:
"Don't let Bob Marley's peace and love lyrics fool you...."
Also from the gully:
"In Jamaica, lesbians, gay men, and transgendered people face a constant threat of violence:"
From The Gleaner:
Jamaican parents and caregivers are battering their boys in the form of harsh punishment to the extent of sending many of them to the hospital, and this abuse is being linked to rising levels of crime and violence nationally.
See also:
Gender and violence in Jamaica
Amnesty International report on Jamaica, 2003 (it's only gotten worse since then)
A resource, if you can find them:
Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) (they have had to "go underground" to a large degree, and now keep their physical location a closely-guarded secret, since the brutal murder of the group's founder, Brian Williamson
For whatever good it will do -- likely none at all -- I intend on writing a letter to The Gleaner about this piece of homophobic trash, and I will write one to The Observer as well.
[ 13 March 2006: Message edited by: Hephaestion ]
From: goodbye... :-( | Registered: Dec 2003
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