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While gay rights activists in the U.S. push for the right to marry, lesbians in Jamaica are fighting for the right to live.

Local activists say women who step outside societal norms - by dressing "too manly" or having few male visitors, for example - risk threats of verbal and physical abuse. Women have reportedly been raped, beaten, murdered and forced out of their homes or jobs simply for being lesbians.

One woman, Karlene,
tells her story.

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While gay rights activists in the U.S. push for the right to marry, lesbians in Jamaica are fighting for the right to live.

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I fully understand that conditions for gay people are much worse in Jamaica than in continental North America... so am I being oversensitive by seeing an implication in that story's lede that says gays in the US ought to quit whining?

[ 09 March 2005: Message edited by: Tape_342 ]