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Jamaican health official: Anti-gay laws must change
Dr. Fenton Ferguson, Jamaica’s minister of health. Jamaica must change its anti-gay “buggery” law “for the greater good” now that an international consensus against such laws is growing, says Dr....
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Jamaica appeal: ‘Jesus Christ died for B-men too!’
A Jamaican advocate of repealing that country’s anti-gay “buggery law” submitted this letter to the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, which published it yesterday with the headline “Jesus Christ died for...
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Jamaica: Vote coming soon on repeal of anti-gay law
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller (Photo by Ricardo Stuckert/Agencia Brasil via WikiMedia Commons) The Jamaican parliament will soon be asked to vote on whether the country’s law against...
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Jamaica: Evicted, gay man aims to overturn buggery law
Javed Jagahi Last year, Javed Jaghai, a young gay Jamaican, was evicted from his home by his landlady when she discovered his sexual orientation. The landlady alleged that Javed’s homosexuality meant...
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Jamaica’s anti-gay law is up for parliamentary review
Mark Golding, Jamaica’s minister of justice Jamaican legislators likely will review the nation’s anti-gay law as part of a legally required examination of laws related to sexual offenses. “There is a...
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Commentary: Jamaican activists need to change focus
Jamaica needs to make a wide variety of improvements in its human rights record with regard to its LGBT citizens — which may not be possible if activists focus too much attention on the nation’s...
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Jamaica’s top daily endorses suit against ‘buggery law’
Jamaica’s premier newspaper supports my challenge to the anti-sodomy law! Editorial: Good luck to Maurice Tomlinson Friday | December 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM | Jamaica Gleaner Activist/attorney Maurice...
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I refuse to be a victim, so I took a stand, Tomlinson says
Maurice Tomlinson (Photo courtesy of International Planned Parenthood Federation) I considered myself to be a very confident person. That changed suddenly a few years ago when I received a particularly...
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Why I fight the Jamaican anti-sodomy law
Maurice Tomlinson (Photo courtesy of Facebook) Jamaican LGBTI rights activist / attorney Maurice Tomlinson explains here some of the background of his legal challenge against Jamaica’s anti-sodomy law....
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Challenge to Jamaican anti-sodomy law gets under way
Maurice Tomlinson today at the Jamaican Supreme Court. (Photo courtesy of Facebook) At the first hearing of my constitutional challenge to the Jamaican anti-sodomy law held today [Feb. 23], the Public...
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Jamaica: 5 reasons why gay rights vote is a bad idea
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (Photo courtesy of NewTalk93FM.com) Andrew Holness, Jamaica’s new prime minister, proposes a referendum on the nation’s anti-gay buggery law. Maurice Tomlinson...
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Jamaica: ‘Human rights … should never be put to a vote’
The Rev. Sean Major-Campbell (Photo courtesy of Jamaica Gleaner) The Rev. Sean Major-Campbell, rector of Christ Church in Vineyard Town, Jamaica, has spoken out against a proposal by newly elected...
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Challenging Jamaica’s bedrock of sexual ignorance
Lloyd D’Aguilar (Photo courtesy of YouTube) Commentary by Jamaican social activist and journalist Lloyd D’Aguilar: I was in court recently [April 26] to support Maurice Tomlinson’s challenge to the...
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Jamaican official appeals: Let me join gay-rights case
Arlene Harrison-Henry, Jamaica’s public defender (Photo courtesy of the Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s official Public Defender, Arlene Harrison-Henry, has appealed her exclusion from a lawsuit before the...
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Be brave, Anglicans; oppose Jamaica’s anti-gay law
It’s high time for Anglican bishops, priests and lay people in Jamaica to pluck up enough courage and compassion to support the decriminalisation of gay Jamaicans, says the Rev. Colin Coward, founder...
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Homophobia in Jamaica: Time to end the cowardice
It’s time for Jamaica to turn its back on homophobia and take a stand for the human rights of LGBTI people, activist Lloyd D’Aguilar writes. “Those who recognize the validity of the struggle for gay...
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Taking aim at anti-LGBT laws dating back to Henry VIII
England’s King Henry VIII (Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger courtesy of BBC) The buggery law in many former British colonies can be traced back to King Henry VIII, the Rt. Rev. Alan Wilson told...
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Beyond Sodom: A biblical case for repealing sodomy laws
Page 1 article in the Gleaner of Oct. 13, 2017, about Archbishop John Holder’s speech.(Colin Stewart photo) Archbishop John Holder put a biblical case for decriminalization of homosexuality under the...
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Basis for anti-gay laws: Greed, not morality
Greed, not morality, was at the root of England’s original 1553 anti-homosexuality law, which has spawned similar laws in dozens of former British colonies. The Rt. Rev. Alan Wilson made that point...
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Homophobes’ absurdity: Spare pedophiles so gays will suffer
To defend a Jamaican law against consensual same-sex intimacy, conservative Christians in Jamaica favor continued leniency for pedophiles who rape boys. Jamaican member of parliament Lisa Hanna seeks...
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