Jamaica: Straights are still kings of crime, not gays

Colin Stewart is a 45-year journalism veteran living in Southern…

A response to the Jamaica Observer’s June 3 article “Unruly gays back with a vengeance,” which describes a group of homeless men who have taken over an otherwise abandoned house in an affluent neighborhood:

Jamaica Observer photo with caption "These two men dash out of an unoccupied house at 16 Millsborough Avenue in St Andrew with a bag of bottles and other missiles which they flung at a Jamaica Observer photographer." — Jamaica Observer photo with caption “These two men dash out of an unoccupied house at 16 Millsborough Avenue in St Andrew with a bag of bottles and other missiles which they flung at a Jamaica Observer photographer.”

The Jamaica Observer’s desperate desire to demonize gays is reaching fever pitch. I suspect that well-thinking Jamaicans will soon begin to see through the paper’s pathetic attempts to equate gays with all acts of savagery plaguing the country. That title is still overwhelmingly worn by HETEROSEXUAL Jamaicans. This includes a jilted female who last week brutally beheaded the daughter of her ex-boyfriend and threw the child’s body down a 20-foot pit.

Jamaicans who are kicked out of their homes as young as 11 years old, simply because they are gay, have formed their own roving community in order to survive. These desperate young men have been chased like animals from one shelter to another. It is only logical that if you treat human beings like savages, this is indeed what they will become. This is a problem the Jamaican society has created because of its chronic homophobia. Now the chicken (and homeless gays) are coming ‘home’ to roost.