Lobby Groups Want Obama to Address Gay Rights Issues During Trip to Jamaica
International lobby groups are urging U.S. President Barack to address gay rights issues on his upcoming trip to Jamaica.
The groups – the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) wrote a letter to the President on the 2nd of April.
According to RJR News, the groups urged Mr Obama to discuss with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and other local officials, the country’s human rights challenges, pointing out that, in many Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, consensual adult sexual acts are criminalized.
According to the lobby groups, these laws often serve to justify and legitimise discrimination and violence against Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons, and they claim that LGBT people in Jamaica often live in a climate of fear of violence, including threats, sexual attacks, and other physical violence.
They added that members of the LGBT community are fearful of seeking treatment at health facilities because of discrimination based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
Just
a bunch a lies name me one lesbian who’s being discriminated against
‘Merican need fi tek dem nose outta odda people business!
GLAAD needs to focus on what is going on in their own backyards. Stop trying to tell other countries what their laws should be. Everything happens in the fullness of time, and when Jamaica is ready to remove those laws from the books, it will happen.
Until then… kibba unuu mout!
what is wrong with these people. Is this gay right thing the most important thing this country has to deal with bilaterally.
what is wrong with these people. Is this gay right thing the most important thing this country has to deal with bilaterally.