Author: Latoya Nugent
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Addressing homelessness among LGBT people in Jamaica
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The displacement of persons is a problem common to many countries of the world including developed nations such as Canada, France, the UK and the US. In 2005 the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing – Miloon Kothari – reported that over 100 million people were homeless worldwide. As a small island developing state Jamaica suffers…
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In search of a new opium of society: Human rights
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Karl Marx in his deliberations on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right opines: “Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes”, that is, “religion is the opium of the people”; one hundred and sixty-nine years later Marx’s position remains the “spiritual aroma” of the society. In many nations across the globe such as Afghanistan, Jamaica and the…
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Left to die
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Pausing legal ramblings to talk a little about the recent brutal murder of Dwayne Jones in St. James, Jamaica and what it means for survivors, like persons, and the general LGBT population in this space. . . The first time I heard the news about Dwayne who identified as Gully Queen, I was flabbergasted. Today,…
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Confronting homophobia: The Role of religion in Jamaican society
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When persons incite violence against us and discriminate against us as LGBT people, do they ever pause for a moment and consider that we are homo sapiens sapiens? Who or what is responsible for indoctrinating Jamaicans to believe that all non-heterosexual people should be “stoned in Half-Way-Tree”? Who or what socialized us to believe that…
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Navigating faith: Can you be LGBT and Christian?
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I am an ignostic, but for the thousands of LGBT persons in Jamaica, I wonder whether there is a place for them in the Christian community. Writing from personal experience in the New Testament Church of God (NTCOG) and from my knowledge of the preached doctrines of that denomination I will try to “pontificate” that…
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