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This Short Film Shows How Terrifying It Is To Be LGBT In Jamaica

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  • This Short Film Shows How Terrifying It Is To Be LGBT In Jamaica

    Of the 56 cases of assault on LGBT Jamaicans documented in
    a new report from Human Rights Watch, police made only four
    arrests.


    J. Lester Feder BuzzFeed Staff
    posted on Oct. 21, 2014, at 1:54 p.m.


    Widespread violence in Jamaica has
    driven some LGBT youth
    to live in the sewers
    of the capital, Kingston, after they fled
    violence in their home communities. A Human Rights Watch
    report released Tuesday shows that police do little to protect
    LGBT people when they do report violence. Police are known
    to have made arrests in only four of the 56 cases Human Rights
    Watch documented, and more than half of those interviewed
    who had been attacked said they were too afraid of retaliation
    or of being outed to even report assaults.

    The Jamaican government is now in the midst of reviewing the
    Sexual Offenses Act in a process that the country’s justice
    minister, Mark Golding,
    told BuzzFeed News last year might
    be a vehicle for repealing the country’s sodomy law. But although
    Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has endorsed repeal of the
    law criminalizing homosexuality, she has
    also said doing so must
    be “based on the will of the constituents” and is “not a priority.”
    A challenge to the law pending before Jamaica’s highest court
    was
    withdrawn in August by the plaintiff, Javed Jaghai, because
    of threats against his family.

    A new video from Human Rights Watch documents the widespread
    threat of violence towards LGBT people, where there are an average
    of almost 60 anti-LGBT assaults each year:




    WITH INFORMATIONS FROM "Buzzfeed.com"




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