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Dwayne Jones, "Gully Queen" - Victim |
On July 22, 2013 Dwayne Jones a Trans-gender otherwise known as "GULLY QUEEN" and "Dwayne Gagastar Trensetta" was shot and stabbed to death in the Irwin community, St James.
According to Iriefm news report, "the 16-year-old was dressed as a female and was dancing with a male, when a woman at the party recognized him and told other patrons that he was not a woman, but a male. One of the men at the party accosted the teen and conducted a search where he discovered that the teen was not a female. A mob then descended on the teen and chopped and stabbed him to death, before dumping his body in bushes along the Orange main road."
Furthermore, the Jamaica-Gleaner reported that, "a number of explosions were heard and the police were summoned. They discovered Jones’ body on the roadway, with multiple stab wounds and a gunshot wound." No arrest has been made.
The brutal killings and public execution of gay, lesbian and trans-gender Jamaicans is a disheartening reality for many who live in the open and shadows. In December 2010, the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) called for a thorough investigation of a case in which the body of a reported cross dresser was found with stab wounds in St Andrew. However, the murder remains unsolved due to a lack of interest demonstrated by the investigation team and police authorities due to the victims’ sexuality and lifestyle (gay).
The lack of respect and protection for the life of gays living in Jamaica demonstrates a systematic and cultural prejudice and hatred for homosexuals and the air they breathe. The government and its leader Prime Minister Portia Simpson continue to disregard the interest, safety and the right to life of gay, lesbian, and trans-gender Jamaicans.
The punitive laws of Jamaica, such as the Offences Against the Person Act (Buggery law) which criminalizes the act of consensual anal sex between gay men, and public demonstration of homosexuality up to 10 years in prison with hard labor, along with the moral concept of normality, empower and motive anti-gay civilians and mobs to attack, beat and kill gays, as well as rape lesbians.
Clearly, over the past years, we have seen the abuse of the rights and dignity of gays living in Jamaica. In January 2011, (J-FLAG) recorded fifty-one incidents of attacks against LGBT including, home invasions, physical assaults and mob attacks.
In June 2012, members of the Jamaican LGBT community reported that eight gay men had been murdered in the prior three months.
The organization has also emphases the lack of report being made by victims of homophobic attacks due to fear of future attacks or abuses, especially from the police officers, who often refuse to take or document self-identified gay victims incidents.
When will our gay brothers and sisters be free from bondage and persecution? How much more innocent blood will be shed before the government step in and protect the lives of GAY Jamaicans?
Besides the killing and beating of homosexuals, Jamaica is a violent and dangerous country. We cannot stand by and watch the culprits and anti-gay lynching mobs to get away with murder. Something needs to be done. Dwayne Jones deserves justice.
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Dwayne Jones, "Gully Queen" - Victim |
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Dwayne Jones, "Gully Queen" - Victim |
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Dwayne Jones, "Gully Queen" - Victim |
I hope everyone will read God's Other Children - A London Memoir. It deals with these issue from the view point of a family originally from Clarendon, Jamaica. The book is especially aimed at law makers. It's time to show hate the gate!
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ReplyHe wasn't shot!
Replywow! and that's all you took from this article? sad.
Exactly...get real..the kid died because we can't love everyone...how can Jamaica call itself a Christian nation? buggery my foot...who comes up with these laws allowing their citizens to kill on demand..
how you know he wasn't shot
The Jamaica-gleaner reported that the victim was shot and stabbed...here is the source http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=46680
ReplyIGNORANT PEOPLE--JA'S
Replyhope you're not Jamaican
There's ignorance everywhere in the world. For you to generalize and call "Jamaicans" ignorant shows the depth of your own ignorance. I've heard of gay beatings in the U.S.A. but you don't hear us calling "Americans" ignorant. If you don't live or Jamaica nor have you spent any length of time in Jamaica then please don't form an opinion of Jamaicans based of the actions of a few. Try focusing on the faults in your own country before you go taking up the issues of other countries. Moron.
Jamaicans are ignorant and I am Jamaican. I have dealt with their backward behavior since childhood and I am as straight as an arrow. I had a friend they called "Homo" and he had to accept his name. I had to save the kid many times from being beaten when we walked across the park from Priory...We need to accept that our nation is ignorant..Ignorant to the fact that Homosexuals are humans, they have their rights as we do and it sickens me that this is still happening..the previous writer before nickstel and carriegirl is correct..Why do you get offended..Maybe we cannot stomach the truth
Jamaicans are ignorant and I am Jamaican. I have dealt with their backward behavior since childhood and I am as straight as an arrow. I had a friend they called "Homo" and he had to accept his name. I had to save the kid many times from being beaten when we walked across the park from Priory...We need to accept that our nation is ignorant..Ignorant to the fact that Homosexuals are humans, they have their rights as we do and it sickens me that this is still happening..the previous writer before nickstel and carriegirl is correct..Why do you get offended..Maybe we cannot stomach the truth
Well stated...
Yes i will say jamaican is ignorant and we dont like to hear the truth, we cannot go around killing people because
they might be gay or les, we stll need to respect people no matter who they are, but from the time i know myself
we r a nasty and the amount of church that is in jamaica, i think we should live ip to it, homosexual are humans and they have their rights as we do, Dwayne Brown, Mum it sad for her but she should play apart in her child death but she didnt want to know him, I will always said my country it gone pass the dog and no one is there to stop it, Portia, hey she is the last one and she is the first tell me how we work this one out, am born jamaican and i will not hide the truth we dirty.
boomm
ReplyTo the author of the article: Thanks for bringing this incident to the forefront. In the spirit of learning and providing information, I must point out that transgender is an adjective and NOT a noun. So, the headline should read "17-year-old transgender woman murdered...." This is, of course, assuming that the person was in fact transgender and not just in drag...because you can't call someone trans unless he or she identifies as such.
ReplyHence the Ignorance of the people in this country, thats why I left that country and to this day despise everything about it!!!
Replyyou are not missed
sad for you though. you can't live with such bitterness about your roots. in the same way we had divergent opinions about the murdering of Trayvon Martin, you can't generalize about the sentiments of all people of a country - we all don't agree with stupid acts like this....your comment is what is ignorant.
We are all too happy to see the back of yu.....please don't ever come back. The less ignorant people we have here the better.
I am so sorry you had to Fled thee arrogance of Oppression & Oppressive thinking..I am equally happy you are Safe & free!!I
G_d Loves The Sinner & Hates The Liar...It is No wonder..This Land & it's People Suffers tremendous Lost on every imaginable Level..Thank you Nicks Tel...
Mr whyte,sorry for the way you feel about your country, however you have to understand the lack of Education and knowledge is a key factor to one's behavior.
ReplyEducation?? No my Friend this Not about education... This is about HATE!!!!!
Now lets take a Poll how many Men in Jamaica enjoy Anal Sex?
Should we Shoot Them? Should we Think its a matter of Time before they engage in this behavior with Men?
No! Not at all!!! What we can do is... Honor The Dead... by Not making excuse the The Living..