Tearing Down Walls, Building Up Hope.

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ra-goes-rawr:

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adtvnation:

A$AP Rocky on Homosexuality & Hip-Hop:

“It’s 2013, and it’s a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It’s crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip-hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip-hop is small-minded or stupid—and that’s not the case. We’ve got people like Jay-Z. We’ve got people like Kanye. We’ve got people like me. We’re all prime examples of people who don’t think like that. I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they’re gonna represent me.”

(via bimren)

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Equality isn’t about a piece of paper that says I am legally bound to another person. It’s about the rights that are taken away from people like me everyday because we are different. It’s about all the kids that think about killing themselves every day because someone once told them they shouldn’t be alive. Equality is not about marriage. Marriage doesn’t stop the bullets from hitting innocent victims at school, nor does it give every lgbtq youth a place to stay at night or food to eat… it’s about taking steps LIKE marriage that make us just like everyone else. Cuz that’s just it… we’re JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

(Source: femmemaninsoul, via allaboutstuds)

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HOMOPHOBES LEAVE US ALONE!

I know homophobes are everywhere but they are really starting to annoy me. Why are Caribbean people so narrow minded, and afraid. I know it isn’t only Caribbean people who act like this, but I will speak about what I know. Is it because we are so hell bent on religion, and we are afraid to go to hell. Religion that for most part we pick and choose the parts that conveniently fit into our lives. HOWEVER the lets judge others and make ourselves feel superior part… we want to believe when it is convenient. However when it comes to judging people part of religion we are all on board with that.

OR is it that homophobes have no sense of self control and are so indiscriminately attracted to anyone of the opposite sex and constantly have want to have sex with people against their will… That they AUTOMATICALLY assume that gay people want to have sex with EVERYONE of their gender.

STRAIGHT people get over yourselves. NO one wants you and no one invited you to play. Go light a candle for your own sorry asses and leave us alone.

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‘We hate fags’ printed on Puerto Rico ATM receipt

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Still in search of

thecupcakecriminal:

Caribbean queer community. Dont get it twisted I know queer caribbean people…but their all in the closet. I dont know why its so hard for me to find gay friends? I have enough girlfriends, lots of beautiful straight men to hang with…yet no queer ones..zero..zilch. I swear I have some sort of repellant on me lol. Hoping for someone to come along in 2013 and if not Im still happy with my big supportive straight brigade lol

Bahamas Bishop: 'Bad' families are creating a 'homosexual avalanche'

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On Being a Caribbean Lesbian: The Gay closet

onbeingacaribbeanlesbian:

The proverbial gay closet isn’t a fancy walk-in closet. It isn’t carpeted and lined with shelves of decandent clothes, and shoes, and lit to the nines, mirrors everywhere to show you only at your best. No no no! The Proverbial gay closet is an overstuffed, stinky hallway closet. Near the front…

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Gay student challenges Jamaica’s anti-sodomy law

Javed Jaghai, a student and Jamaican gay rights activist has initiated a challenge to the country’s anti-sodomy law.

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thisisjamaica:

Staceyann Chin: “Resistance through Poetry”

Staceyann Chin is a Jamaican spoken-word artist, performer, poet and LGBT rights activist widely known as a co-writer and performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam. In “Resistance through Poetry” (The Guardian), she writes about the perils of being a lesbian in Jamaica and how she discovered writing as an art of resistance, producing numerous poems, plays, andThe Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir (2009).

Being a lesbian was my gateway, a passport to the world of activism. I’m one of the millions who come from poverty, but through struggle, caprice and an inclination to book learning, made it to the middle class. All through…………….

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