pushback against gays has begun

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The pushback against gays has begun


SEVERAL editorials ago, we cautioned that the way the gay community has been conducting its campaign to gain acceptance would result in serious resistance from the Jamaican populace. That predicted pushback is beginning, and it's not only by the church.

The anguished response to the introduction of material deemed to be age-inappropriate by Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) into six private homes for children is the latest indication of that resistance.

No one will successfully accuse us of being anti-gay in this space. We stand firmly against the beating of homosexuals and for greater tolerance of gays and lesbians as Jamaicans with rights similar to the rest of us. If someone chooses to practise that lifestyle, it is their business, if they are not trying to force it on anyone else, including children.

As late as Thursday, May 22, 2014, we noted: "...But we admit to growing unease that the gay community is not as tolerant as they want others to be of them."

It is our view that, over the years, Jamaicans have been growing in patience and tolerance, generally leaving homosexuals to do what they wish to do in private. But taking their cue from the United States, apparently, Jamaican gays have been adopting a more aggressive stance in demanding to be recognised as equal to heterosexuals. One gets the impression that, in the US, heterosexuals don't even have the right to say they disagree with the gay lifestyle, without attracting some form of punishment.

Not satisfied with blocking entertainers who have been accused of producing "hate material" advocating violence against gays from making money in some countries overseas, the community's leadership has told outright lies against the Jamaican nation, by consistently portraying gay-on-gay violence as evidence of "homophobia" and abuse of gays. This has assisted in gaining sympathy from fellow gays overseas and, in some cases, asylum and funding. But Jamaicans have been quietly seething.

With strong funding from their American counterparts, the gay leadership has also infiltrated several organisations, using harmless0sounding words like "human rights"; "marginalised youth"; "vulnerable community"; "responsible sexuality," etc. The most obvious takeover, in this regard, is the regional programme to reduce HIV/AIDS, the disease known to afflict homosexuals especially.

This is what led to the firing of Professor Brendan Bain as director of the Regional Co-ordinating Unit of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network by the University of the West Indies. Dr Bain has taken that matter before the courts and we await its outcome before making further comments.

However, it's one thing to get Dr Bain fired, but taking sexual grooming to a home for children is a horse of a different colour entirely. No excuse that contracts were signed with the homes can stand. The agency responsible for administering the home should have been informed, and so too the portfolio ministry.

Moreover, JFJ should have learnt from the stance taken by the education ministry when similar type material ended up in textbooks and was banned.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/The-pushback-against-gays-has-begun_16933282

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The pushback against gays has begun


SEVERAL editorials ago, we cautioned that the way the gay community has been conducting its campaign to gain acceptance would result in serious resistance from the Jamaican populace. That predicted pushback is beginning, and it's not only by the church.

The anguished response to the introduction of material deemed to be age-inappropriate by Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) into six private homes for children is the latest indication of that resistance.

No one will successfully accuse us of being anti-gay in this space. We stand firmly against the beating of homosexuals and for greater tolerance of gays and lesbians as Jamaicans with rights similar to the rest of us. If someone chooses to practise that lifestyle, it is their business, if they are not trying to force it on anyone else, including children.

As late as Thursday, May 22, 2014, we noted: "...But we admit to growing unease that the gay community is not as tolerant as they want others to be of them."

It is our view that, over the years, Jamaicans have been growing in patience and tolerance, generally leaving homosexuals to do what they wish to do in private. But taking their cue from the United States, apparently, Jamaican gays have been adopting a more aggressive stance in demanding to be recognised as equal to heterosexuals. One gets the impression that, in the US, heterosexuals don't even have the right to say they disagree with the gay lifestyle, without attracting some form of punishment.

Not satisfied with blocking entertainers who have been accused of producing "hate material" advocating violence against gays from making money in some countries overseas, the community's leadership has told outright lies against the Jamaican nation, by consistently portraying gay-on-gay violence as evidence of "homophobia" and abuse of gays. This has assisted in gaining sympathy from fellow gays overseas and, in some cases, asylum and funding. But Jamaicans have been quietly seething.

With strong funding from their American counterparts, the gay leadership has also infiltrated several organisations, using harmless0sounding words like "human rights"; "marginalised youth"; "vulnerable community"; "responsible sexuality," etc. The most obvious takeover, in this regard, is the regional programme to reduce HIV/AIDS, the disease known to afflict homosexuals especially.

This is what led to the firing of Professor Brendan Bain as director of the Regional Co-ordinating Unit of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network by the University of the West Indies. Dr Bain has taken that matter before the courts and we await its outcome before making further comments.

However, it's one thing to get Dr Bain fired, but taking sexual grooming to a home for children is a horse of a different colour entirely. No excuse that contracts were signed with the homes can stand. The agency responsible for administering the home should have been informed, and so too the portfolio ministry.

Moreover, JFJ should have learnt from the stance taken by the education ministry when similar type material ended up in textbooks and was banned.


http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...begun_16933282

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Of course it is. You keep playing it out of your arse.

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Head hunters, Professor Bain and the gay agenda

BY ALFRED SANGSTER


THE term 'Head Hunter' has a number of historical meanings: Primitive tribes carried their enemies' heads home on the point of a spear; in the corporate world, it is the search for a replacement — usually a chief executive officer.

A more recent use of the term has been the success of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) groups to have prominent persons removed from office because of alleged offences against the group's objectives.

A recent widely discussed case in the United States was that of Mozilla's co-founder, technological expert and President Brandon Eich,

who was driven from the presidency by an Internet lynch mob when it was discovered that he made a contribution of US$1,000 six years ago to the now overturned 2008 gay-marriage ban in California.

As Professor Robert George of Princeton University has noted: "Now that the bullies have Eich's head as a trophy on the wall, they will put the heat on every other corporation and major employer who declines to conform their views to the new orthodoxy."

Jamaica now has such a case, with the firing of Professor Brendan Bain as head and project manager of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network (CHART) by the University of the West Indies (UWI) vice chancellor. There has been much discussion of the case, with protest demonstrations and groups such as the Medical Association of Jamaica, the Human Resource Management Authority of Jamaica, the Jamaican Bar Association, and others protesting the firing of Professor Bain.

Daniel Thwaites' column in The Gleaner was headed 'Bain beheaded by gay Taliban'.

The Jamaica Observer comments have been, in general, balanced and even in one editorial makes the statement that "Dr Bain's pronouncements about the spread of HIV/AIDS among MSMs is something to be taken seriously".

The issue is a fundamental one and it has mobilised the Jamaican community in general, the church in particular, and other civil society groups to challenge the UWI action. What are the issues?

1. Conflict of Interest

The anti-Bain groups charge Professor Bain with "Conflict of Interest". This stems from his providing a professional brief at the request of three church groups nearly two years ago in August 2012 on a civil action in Belize brought by the UWI Mona lawyers group, U-RAP, for Caleb Orozco.

The charge now is that because Professor Bain provided expert testimony that homosexual practice between men and men (MSM) carried greater infectious health risks, this is a conflict of interest. It cannot be that speaking the truth can be a conflict of interest. In addition, neither on that occasion nor in any other place has Professor Bain advocated criminal charges to individuals.

2. Some Unjust Reasons for Firing the Professor

* Professor Bain did nothing wrong and there are no legitimate reasons to lose confidence in him.

* The action potentially limits our access to all scientific research and information related to HIV/AIDS, and prevents medical experts and research professionals from carrying out their mandates.

* The vice chancellor failed in his duty to uphold justice and act in the broader interest of the public.

* The claim that the professor was damaging the university is baseless.

3. The Project

In April 2012, the US-based Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a five-year US$9-million grant to UWI for continuation of the work of the CHART programme in 12 Caricom countries as one part of a US-Caribbean regional HIV/AIDS partnership framework. This is the first time that a university outside of the USA has received such an award and it is one of the largest grants received by UWI in recent years. It is a signal honour, due in large measure to the confidence placed in Professor Bain and his team by the donor.

4. Professor Bain's Credentials and Practice

Dr Bain was appointed to the staff of UWI in 1980 as the first person with specialist training in clinical infectious diseases and has a tenured professorship from 1999.

A former student, now a medical professor in the United States, in his commendation of Professor Bain describes many of the aid agencies with having specialised agendas and as the new colonialists.

Professor Bain has treated with care and compassion thousands of HIV/AIDS cases in Jamaica and has, through training sessions in Jamaica and the Caribbean, helped all categories of medical workers to work with understanding and compassion, persons living with HIV/AIDS.

5. The Vice Chancellor's Action

* The vice chancellor, in firing Professor Bain, acted illegally both contractually and constitutionally.

* He risked the continuation of the project.

* He succumbed to a vicious personal character assassination attack on Professor Bain's credibility.

* He has endangered the regional and international credibility of the UWI.

6. The Head Hunters Methodology

The right of the individual's action, irrespective of the moral consequences of those actions, represents a key objective of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition group led by Dr Carolyn Gomes, the former executive director of Jamaicans For Justice. Truth, when presented, is seen as an irrelevant or inconvenient item in any specific struggle. The repeal of the Buggery Law is a major objective of the gay community. The reason is that they have used the law as applying mainly (only) to homosexuals. Expert legal opinion — Attorney Maurice Saunders, Observer, May 21, 2014 — points out that the law does not discriminate against homosexuals and there is no good reason to change it. The report of high-fives and 'you go girl' greetings at the gay celebration with others saying that the 'UWI is all ours' (Observer May 30) may well be premature.

7. The Objectives of the Protest Movement

The protest movement is gathering strength in Jamaica and the Caribbean and has the following objectives:

* The retraction of the firing of Professor Bain and his reinstatement to his former position.

* Taking steps to restore the university's credibility in the Caribbean and international marketplace.

* Restoring the viability of the project in case of any threat to its viability.

* Many persons are now proposing that a referendum be held to consider the repeal of the Buggery Law in Jamaica.

Alfred Sangster is president emeritus of the University of Technology.

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Church group plans mass pro-Bain protest for Half-Way-Tree


CHURCHES Action Uniting Society for Emancipation (CAUSE), which has members in several churches across the island, is planning to host a mass protest in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew on June 29, as Christians step up its protests against the dismissal by the University of the West Indies (UWI) of Professor Brendan Bain as director of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Training Network.

The group, which was officially launched yesterday in Kingston, said its is not happy with the way the professor was treated following his dismissal in May and is determined not to let the issue be swept under the carpet.

"The aim of protest is to send a message that we (the church) will not sit back and allow this issue to be swept under the carpet," said Bruce Polson, a pastor and senior member of the group of more than 100 church members.

Polson said that leading up to the mass meeting church officials have started the staging a series of smaller protests at the gates of the UWI in Mona.

Stevenson Samuels, another member of the group, said the protest would continue even though the court had granted an injunction last Friday against the UWI in the sacking of Professor Bain.

The UWI, in May, dismissed Professor Bain following concerns raised by gay activists across the region, after hearing testimony he made in Belize about two years ago regarding homosexuality and HIV/AIDS.

The issue has triggered island-wide protest from scores of Jamaicans who have argued that the professor was treated unfairly.

Bain has since challenged his termination in the High Court.

— Kimmo Matthews

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Church-group-plans-mass-pro-Bain-protest-for-Half-Way-Tree_16937593

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Of course it is. You keep playing it out of your arse.

bad man nuh apologized to no batty bwoy

does itt baddar yuh dat a latt aff decent jamaicans puttinn upp a resistance against slackness, filth ann homosexual propaganda

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Letters to the Editor
Stand up straight, without hate, for The CAUSE

Friday, June 20, 2014 1 comment
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Al Miller

Dear Editor,

“There comes a time, when we heed a certain call and the world must stand together as one…We are the world!” (Adapted from We are the world by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie)

There are times in the history of every nation and generation, when situations arise which threaten human welfare and existence. It is at that time that a people must stand up or be swallowed up!

As a people, we have successfully stood up against slavery, apartheid, colonialism, imperialism and, more recently, communism in the ’70s. We are being forced again to stand up or be swallowed up. For we are in danger of being colonised socially and influenced morally and economically by imperial (external) forces.

It is time for us to truly become an independent nation. A truly independent people will always stand up together when there is a cause against which to stand.

When injustice and oppression reign, is there not a cause? Don’t you hear the voices of our national heroes and ancestors saying yes? When rights and freedoms are threatened, is there not a cause? Can’t you hear Professor Brendan Bain and others saying yes? When freedom of speech is threatened, is there not a cause? Don’t you hear Queen Ifrica and many musicians saying yes? When the welfare of our youth is threatened, is there not a cause? When our morals and values deteriorate and destroy our social and economic development, is there not a cause?

There is a CAUSE: Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation. CAUSE was birthed because of the unjust treatment of Professor Brendan Bain. His unfair dismissal reminded us of a time in Jamaica’s history when a man could lose his job, his rights, his freedom or his life because he displeased his colonial and imperial slave masters. The assault on his rights and freedom of expression, spurred church leaders of many different denominations to unite. Out of that unity CAUSE was formed.

CAUSE is the churches’ unified response to ensure that all Jamaicans remain emancipated and fully free from modern imperialist world views and unjust, unacceptable and abnormal morals and actions forced on us by other nations.

We may sometimes have to tolerate abnormal issues, but they must never be accepted as normal or alternative ways of life. We must never hate, hurt or treat unjustly our people who are enslaved to these wrong behaviours. We must be straight without hate.

So I invite all Jamaicans to join The CAUSE. No matter our gender, religion, creed or orientation, let’s all join The CAUSE. Then together, let’s all take a stand. Let’s stand up once again against external forces that would want to enslave our minds, hurt our children, destroy our society and economy and accept their abnormal and unacceptable world view and lifestyle.

Let justice, truth be ours forever; Jamaica, land we love.

Al Miller

Senior Pastor

Fellowship Tabernacle Group of Churh

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dem pushinn homosexualitee ann tryinn fe claim dem nuh homosexual lobby

dem can fool sum peeps sumthyme butt dem affii cum widd bettar homo propoganda fe fool jamaicans




CVC CLAIM DEM NOT A GAY LOBBY


Published June 20, 2014


The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) is denying it is a gay-rights lobby pushing a gay agenda.

The declaration follows reports in the media that an inappropriate sex-education course, implemented in six private children’s homes by Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), was hijacked by funders of the gay-rights lobby.

It was revealed in those reports that the CVC was the source of funding for the programme.

However, during a press conference yesterday, the CVC said there have been many misconceptions regarding the group, which describes itself as a broad union of organisations.

Ivan Cruickshank, programme manager at the CVC, contended that the group was a human-rights and public-health organisation committed to helping vulnerable groups, including sex workers, marginalised youth, men who have sex with men and people living with HIV/AIDS.

NO APOLOGY

Dr Carolyn Gomes, co-chairman of the CVC, said the coalition would make no apology for defending the rights of the vulnerable.

“CVC is founded on the principle that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. We make no apology for fighting for the rights of minority populations and vulnerable groups to be heard, to participate as full citizens and to be treated with dignity and respect,” said Gomes.

Meanwhile, the CVC said there was a misconception that the organisation was highly funded by private sources.

The coalition explained that it responds to calls for proposals for grants to support interventions with the vulnerable groups it serves.

The CVC said at present, it has three main donors, with a majority of the funds allocated from the Global Fund.

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the sex-education course, the Ministry of Youth has sought legal advice on what action can be taken against JFJ and the administrators of the children’s home in which the course was implemented.

- Mellisa Berry

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dem cow sum weak dancehall artists ann figgit dat dancehall artists onlee chatt wat jamaicans seyinn dat homosexualitee iss an abomination


DEM SEH PEOPLE PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE GAYS………HEY WOA


SEVERAL editorials ago, we cautioned that the way the gay community has been conducting its campaign to gain acceptance would result in serious resistance from the Jamaican populace. That predicted pushback is beginning, and it’s not only by the church.

The anguished response to the introduction of material deemed to be age-inappropriate by Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) into six private homes for children is the latest indication of that resistance.

No one will successfully accuse us of being anti-gay in this space. We stand firmly against the beating of homosexuals and for greater tolerance of gays and lesbians as Jamaicans with rights similar to the rest of us. If someone chooses to practise that lifestyle, it is their business, if they are not trying to force it on anyone else, including children.

As late as Thursday, May 22, 2014, we noted: “…But we admit to growing unease that the gay community is not as tolerant as they want others to be of them.”

It is our view that, over the years, Jamaicans have been growing in patience and tolerance, generally leaving homosexuals to do what they wish to do in private. But taking their cue from the United States, apparently, Jamaican gays have been adopting a more aggressive stance in demanding to be recognised as equal to heterosexuals. One gets the impression that, in the US, heterosexuals don’t even have the right to say they disagree with the gay lifestyle, without attracting some form of punishment.

Not satisfied with blocking entertainers who have been accused of producing “hate material” advocating violence against gays from making money in some countries overseas, the community’s leadership has told outright lies against the Jamaican nation, by consistently portraying gay-on-gay violence as evidence of “homophobia” and abuse of gays. This has assisted in gaining sympathy from fellow gays overseas and, in some cases, asylum and funding. But Jamaicans have been quietly seething.

With strong funding from their American counterparts, the gay leadership has also infiltrated several organisations, using harmless0sounding words like “human rights”; “marginalised youth”; “vulnerable community”; “responsible sexuality,” etc. The most obvious takeover, in this regard, is the regional programme to reduce HIV/AIDS, the disease known to afflict homosexuals especially.

This is what led to the firing of Professor Brendan Bain as director of the Regional Co-ordinating Unit of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network by the University of the West Indies. Dr Bain has taken that matter before the courts and we await its outcome before making further comments.

However, it’s one thing to get Dr Bain fired, but taking sexual grooming to a home for children is a horse of a different colour entirely. No excuse that contracts were signed with the homes can stand. The agency responsible for administering the home should have been informed, and so too the portfolio ministry.

Moreover, JFJ should have learnt from the stance taken by the education ministry when similar type material ended up in textbooks and was banned.

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High cost to defame Donald – Jamaican pastor successfully sues gay newspaper which libelled him

Pastor Donald Stewart staging a one man protest outside the Sovereign Centre, St Andrew, against the showing of the homosexual movie, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in 2006. – File

Erica Virtue, Senior Gleaner Writer

Gay Star News, a United Kingdom-based tabloid dedicated to providing information to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, has apologised to Jamaican pastor Donald Stewart, and paid damages for defamation after it accused him of being a paedophile.

The newspaper has run an apology stating that: “On 25 August 2013 we published an article and a photo of Dr Donald Stewart with the headline ‘Demonologist pastor says ‘homosexual issue’ needs to be corrected’.

The article had alleged that Dr Stewart was a paedophile who had been convicted of two counts of indecent assault on a child as part of his role supervising the Swift Purcell Boys Home, Jamaica, in 2009.

But in its apology the newspaper said: “Dr Donald Stewart, pastor of the Portmore Lane Covenant Community Church, Jamaica, is entirely innocent of these charges and has never been arrested or charged in connection with any such offence. We sincerely apologise to Dr Stewart for the distress and embarrassment which he has suffered as a result of our very serious error and we have unreservedly withdrawn the allegation”.

Gay Star News had published its story in response to a Sunday Gleaner report in which Stewart, pastor of the Portmore Lane Covenant Christian Church in St Catherine, was quoted as saying that, “somebody must stand up to homosexuals.”

Last week, Stewart said he was convinced that the allegation was part of a strategy to discredit anyone who is opposed to the homosexual agenda.

CUTTING DOWN CREDIBILITY

“We know it’s part of a strategy to cut down the credibility of people opposed to their agenda. But there is a God in heaven and my stance on homosexuality has not changed,” Stewart told The Sunday Gleaner.

He said another entity operated under the moniker, The LGBT Network, picked up the story from Gay Star News and plastered it on its website.

Stewart said when his lawyers contacted the entity, they discovered that it was run by one individual, “and he begged us not to sue, as he did not have any money to settle.”

“We agreed to leave it, because we would incur a cost to pursue someone from whom we could not collect. … I was initially angered that they would stoop so low, but honestly not surprised. If they can’t get you on their side they try to discredit you,” said Stewart.

According to Stewart, his lawyers are now pursuing defamation cases against four entities based in the United States. “They do not want to settle, so we are going to court,” said Stewart without naming the entities.

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communitee tandards butt dem neva beat da allegeded homosexual rapist badd enuff


Cops probe if ... Man buggers 16-y-o mentally ill boy



A 16-year-old mentally ill boy had to recently seek medical attention after he was allegedly buggered by a man in Waugh Hill, St Catherine.

The harrowing incident took place on June 2, some time before 5:30 p.m.

The teen's father, a farmer, said he was in his hut when his oldest son came to him with his brother and recounted the horrific ordeal.

"I saw the older one running with the younger one. The younger one was raped in an abandoned building," the father explained.

frightened

He said his oldest son told the teenager to take off his pants so that he could see if he had been molested. He said that what he saw was damage done to his son's anus. "I was so frightened," the father said.

The father said that his son had to be rescued by another relative, who claimed to have heard moaning and groaning and who used a piece of board to hit the man off the teenager.

The perpetrator of the heinous act, was known to the community as a troublemaker and at the time of the incident, was set upon and beaten by an angry mob before fleeing the area.

The fathr claimed that the man was also responsible for robberies and the molestation of animals in that community. Days after the incident it is said that the 16-year-old was taken in for medical attention at a clinic along Slipe Pen Road in Kingston.

Meanwhile, head of the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, Deputy Superintendent Veronica Gilzene, said she was unable to comment on the matter due to its sensitive nature.

http://jamaica-star.com/thestar/20140618/news/news1.html

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homo lies xxposed


Police deny homo's beat up claim


THE police have hit out against a claim by former head of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All-Sexuals and Gays (JFLAG), Gareth Henry, that he and other men were beaten with guns during an incident at Monarch Pharmacy in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew on Valentine's Day, 2007.

Henry told The Guardian newspaper in England that he was one of three men who were chased inside the pharmacy at a shopping mall in Kingston by an angry mob intent on mauling them

to death.

"According to his statement to the commission, the police were called but were abusive when they arrived. One officer asked if he was a 'batty man' and then all four policemen began beating him with their guns," The Guardian report read.

However, Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Area Four George Quallo said that the claim

was untrue.

At the time of the incident Quallo was the commanding officer for the St Andrew Central police division where the pharmacy is located.

"The men were holed up in the pharmacy and the first set of police who went there had to call for back-up. The police came with reinforcements and due to the large crowd had to use tear gas to repel them before taking the men away under a heavy police detail. They had no time to beat the men with guns," Quallo told the Jamaica Observer.

A few persons in the crowd threw objects as the men were being placed inside a police car, one of which hit one of the men in the head.

The Jamaica Observer was on the scene at the time and had to beat a hasty retreat due to the stinging effect of the tear gas which had the mob, made up mostly of schoolchildren, scampering in all directions.

Quallo said that even after the men were rescued, a large crowd converged on the Half-Way-Tree Police Station and the police kept them inside until the crowd dispersed.

A customer who was in the pharmacy at the time of the incident also rubbished Henry's claim that he and two other men, who were dressed in drag, were chased into the pharmacy.

"The mob converged on the pharmacy because the gay men had doused a woman with water who spoke to them about their rowdy behaviour. The woman ran out of the pharmacy and told passers-by what had happened. Word spread and in no time a crowd converged at the front of the pharmacy and started shouting, 'let them out, let them out'. Nobody never chase them into nowhere. They walked inside the pharmacy," the shopper said at the time.

Henry also told The Guardian that he took over the reins of JFLAG after the murder of its founding executive director Brian Williamson in June 2004. He claimed that Williamson was stabbed to death in a homophobic attack.

However, police records indicate that Williamson was the victim of a gay-on-gay attack.

Williamson's body was found lying face down in a pool of blood on his bedroom floor. He had multiple stab wounds to his neck.

There were no signs of forced entry to his room.

Desmond Chambers, one of two men with whom Williamson shared the three-bedroom house, told the media at the time that he did maintenance work around the property and accused two men who had visited

the premises earlier of the murder.

According to Chambers, one of the men was a regular guest of the deceased.

"I have seen him here about six times (and) anything him want, Brian give him. Brian give him money, Brian give him food and help him to purchase (newspaper) to sell on the road," he said.

Dwight Hayden, the man accused of murdering Williamson and who eventually pleaded guilty and was slapped with a life sentence for the crime, had confessed in court that he and Williamson were lovers.

During an interview with the Jamaica Observer in July 2012, former Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green also scoffed at claims by the local and international gay lobby that gays in Jamaica were the victims of wanton murder and marginalisation.

The former Scotland Yard detective said at the time that his statistics showed that the vast majority of murders of gay men were the results of lovers' disputes and in his experience, only one was not perpetrated by a gay person and that was a case of robbery.

"All of those murders that I have investigated have been in relationships and are victims of gay

attacks, domestic situations," Green said.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Police-deny-homo-s-beat-up-claim_16889569