In Jamaica, transgender teen murdered by mob

[LeftofObama]

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.

By age 16, the teenager was dead — beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.

"When I saw Dwayne's body, I started shaking and crying," said Khloe, one of three transgender friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like many transgender and gay people in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.

"It was horrible. It was so, so painful to see him like that."

Much more at the link.

http://news.yahoo.com/jamaica-transgender-teen-murdered-mob-070446416.html

Shameful! Just shameful!

[William769]

1. Jamaica stopped me from seeing my mother on her death bed last year

Because I was HIV Positive. I had to wait till she was brought back To Florida.

Jamaica is the armpit of the Caribbean and I am being nice when I say that.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for that Country and if it were to be gobbled up in the ocean, it would not be missed.

[LeftofObama]

2. That's terrible!

I'm so sorry.



I had heard bad things about Jamaica, but I had no idea it was this bad. I won't be vacationing there any time soon!

[historylovr]

3. That poor kid. Shameful indeed.

[Creideiki]

4. At what point can the US start offering asylum to LGBT people from around the world?

I know parts of the country are brutally awful, but at least we can get people here and then help them find safer parts of the country to be around.

[MNBrewer]

5. I'm all for that!!