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 neighbours push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up. By David McFadden photo 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." International advocacy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile country in the Western Hemisphere for gay and transgender people. After two prominent gay rights activists were murdered, a researcher with the U.S based Human Rights Watch in 2006 called the environment in Jamaica for such groups "the worst any of us has ever seen". Local activists have since disputed that label, but still say homophobia is pervasive. Dwayne's horrific July 22 murder has made headlines in newspapers on the island and stirred calls in some quarters for doing more to protect Jamaica's gay community, especially those who live on the streets and resort to sex work. <a href="/X6VMtORm1J">click HERE for more gist[/url] check out more entertainment gist <a href="/X6VMtORm1J">HERE[/url]
Posted: at 12-08-2013 08:24 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
princesssally2 at 12-08-2013 08:58 PM (10 years ago) (f)
He has decide his own destiny himself.
Posted: at 12-08-2013 08:58 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
ghanalove at 13-08-2013 06:11 AM (10 years ago) (f)
if you support the death of a 16 year old child. you are the one who has the devil inside of you.
i find murder disgusting weather he is straight or gay ,still doesn't give you the right to kill.God never said you should kill sinners,he never gave you that permission.
Posted: at 13-08-2013 06:11 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
Murder is murder. Murdered by his family, friends and by all those who stood by and did nothing.
I hope his father recognises the fact that by throwing his son to the wolves he has failed the test given to him by God. The father should be there to protect his son but he'd rather have the neighbours 'love.' I am sure these neighbours are having a good laugh at the father and the rest of his family behind their backs.
May the young teen rest in peace. At least he is now in a place where there is no discrimination based on - colour,creed, religion or segxwality!
God loves all his creation - whatever 'churches' teach to the contrary!
Posted: at 13-08-2013 06:21 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Chimoski87 at 13-08-2013 07:35 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Regardless of the fact that I don't support murder or the taking of human life. Gays, Lesbians, LGBT, transgender, should be given a third chance in this life. Once the person has been cautioned yet he or she indulges in this homosegxwal, lesbian activities, life should be snuffled out of the person or better still put in a jail until the person's senses starts working properly. Homosegxwal, Lesbianism is one of the latest DEMONIC packages by US, Britain & their to turn the wrath of God on mankind. My prayer to God is to enable pple know that all these are d handiwork of the devil & been propagated by these countries. Imagine somebody been born as a man, he undergoes a surgery jst to become a woman. What is such person telling God
Posted: at 13-08-2013 07:35 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
Chimoski87 at 13-08-2013 07:36 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Regardless of the fact that I don't support murder or the taking of human life. Gays, Lesbians, LGBT, transgender, should be given a third chance in this life. Once the person has been cautioned yet he or she indulges in this homosegxwal, lesbian activities, life should be snuffled out of the person or better still put in a jail until the person's senses starts working properly. Homosegxwal, Lesbianism is one of the latest DEMONIC packages by US, Britain & their to turn the wrath of God on mankind. My prayer to God is to enable pple know that all these are d handiwork of the devil & been propagated by these countries. Imagine somebody been born as a man, he undergoes a surgery jst to become a woman. What is such person telling God
Posted: at 13-08-2013 07:36 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
Chimoski87 at 13-08-2013 07:38 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Regardless of the fact that I don't support murder or the taking of human life. Gays, Lesbians, LGBT, transgender, should be given a third chance in this life. Once the person has been cautioned yet he or she indulges in this homosegxwal, lesbian activities, life should be snuffled out of the person or better still put in a jail until the person's senses starts working properly. Homosegxwal, Lesbianism is one of the latest DEMONIC packages by US, Britain & their to turn the wrath of God on mankind. My prayer to God is to enable pple know that all these are d handiwork of the devil & been propagated by these countries. Imagine somebody been born as a man, he undergoes a surgery jst to become a woman. What is such person telling God
Posted: at 13-08-2013 07:38 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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