2007-04-23 19:51:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Caribbean ➔ Jamaica
It is called homophobia wrapped around religion and ignorance, but it also comes down to the perceived threat to the "manhood" and the perceived insult to men if a woman does not want them because she is gay and vice versa even though it tends to be more vitriolic among men.
They will ignore you if you are not blatant with it but if you are, be prepared to die, no exaggeration.
I grew up being told that being gay was a sin and if you were you would go to hell. I knew gays when I was growing up there but I can tell you the climate from the 80's until now has not changed. Gay rights activists cannot be obvious with their work, it will cost them dearly as was the case 18 months ago with a gay rights activist being murdered because of his orientation.
I remember in the 1990's, people wanted to have a gay pride parade there and they were told " go ahead but don't be surprised if they get shot".
Personally, I think because of the religious zealotry and homophobia in not realizing that it is not catching and it cannot be beaten out of people tends to keep Jamaicans on the d.l. which in turn has them sneaking around, getting sick, afraid to let people know and thus infecting the women they are with.
2007-04-24 07:54:20 · answer #1 · answered by thequeenreigns 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Batty boys dem need to stay far from we ! Man to man is so unjust, man to man just bring disgust!
there are no ifs or buts or maybes ***** and butts shall bring no babies- these famous words by Leftside and Esco
2007-04-27 18:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by diddlemyskittle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is mostly based on the popultaion being very religious and being gay is against their religion. Ignorant or intolerant as that may be many
Caribe nations are either against gays or they are pretty tolerant, there seems to be no middle ground.
2007-04-24 10:38:05 · answer #3 · answered by David D 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We don't want them to influence our kids, its not natural its by choice so we don't want them to bring it down here and its against the bible the word of God. They need to stay where they are
2007-04-25 13:20:04 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we nuh inna nu funny guy thing!! Bun out a chi chi!!
2007-04-25 09:21:09 · answer #5 · answered by Sherona B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they see it at morally, physically and spiritually wrong. to them people should only be attracyed to the opposite sex which i personally think is true. the often say that God made adam and eve not adam and steve.
2007-04-27 16:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by sheika 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we bun chi chi man,batti man or batty bwoy which ever one u prefer because jamaicans are very religious and dont tolerate this and dont want our country to turn out very weird even though they be alot of gay people down their now.
2007-04-24 22:53:40 · answer #7 · answered by Nivea K 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
for the same reasons anywhere else.it isn't just because It is Jamaica...you could ask ..why do people hate gays......
2007-04-24 23:36:27 · answer #8 · answered by shasha 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
mainly religion and culture. hard to break habit u know?
2007-04-25 20:14:37 · answer #9 · answered by amanahill 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
most of them tek man .for reason know (example) food,clothing schooling trips hungry,or they might like the feeling of d*ck inna batty
2007-04-24 23:33:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋