Transgender Teen Murdered by Mob in Jamaica

[Liza's Headband]

Transgender Teen Murdered by Mob in Jamaica#1

Posted: 8/11/13 at 11:50am

This breaks my heart.

"International advocacy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile country in the Western Hemisphere for gay and transgender people. After two prominent gay rights activists were murdered, a researcher with the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch in 2006 called the environment in Jamaica for such groups 'the worst any of us has ever seen.'"


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[CarlosAlberto]

Transgender Teen Murdered by Mob in Jamaica#2

Posted: 8/11/13 at 11:59am

A co-worker of mine just recently returned from vacationing in Jamaica and gifted me a shot glass with the word "Jamaica" emblazoned on the front. I promptly gave it back and expressed my gratitude for the thought but I explained to him that I simply could not accept a gift with the name of a country that discriminates against me and my LGBT brothers and sisters.

Updated On: 8/11/13 at 11:59 AM

[AC126748]

Transgender Teen Murdered by Mob in Jamaica#2

Posted: 8/11/13 at 12:00pm

Jamaica has long been very unfriendly to the gay/trans* communities. It's very sad overall, with this being one of the saddest examples.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Unknown User]

Transgender Teen Murdered by Mob in Jamaica#3

Posted: 8/11/13 at 1:48pm