I attended this event as Human Rights Day drew to a close. It was a quiet but happy occasion, although I confess to feeling tearful during the candlelight part when the group called out the names of loved ones and friends who had left us. MANY congratulations to Jermaine and his team for their efforts – and to Kate Chappell for this blog post and wonderful photos. P.S. The soup was very tasty!
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“Can you carry me foreign?” This question was posed to me last night at a candle-light vigil to benefit Kingston’s homeless gay youth, hosted by the non-governmental organization the Color Pink Group. Seventeen-year-old Christopher asked me this in hopes that I would be able to use my status as a foreigner to help him migrate somewhere more safe. Christopher does not feel safe because he is a gay youth who lives in Jamaica, a nation not known for its tolerance towards homosexuals.
(Check out the latest news here, about “rowdy” homosexuals in Kingston, or here, about this group of gay men who have been evicted from their “home”, which is really a ditch, the only place they can live. And we cannot forget about Dwayne Jones, who was murdered this past summer).
Christopher, a tall, skinny young man wearing a camouflage t-shirt, was not alone last night…
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