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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…nis Jernigan, made statements in support of anti-sodomy laws on a visit to Jamaica, Exodus responded more quickly, securing his resignation within days and issuing a policy statement that claims “we stand with the LGBT community both in spirit, and when necessary, legally and physically, when violence rears it’s head in Uganda, Jamaica or anywhere else in the world.” This is not to say that Exodus can necessarily be trusted to independently take t…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…e of the project’s launch video which includes voices from six continents. Jamaica: Two Faces of Christianity It Gets Better’s international affiliates page notes that a project for Jamaica is in the works and “coming soon.” The sooner the better – Religious Right figures like Peter LaBarbera and MassResistance’s Brian Camenker participated in a recent conference there and urged Jamaicans not to do away with sodomy laws. Those laws have literally…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that it be a priority. The March 15 New York Times magazine features “From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself,” a story by Marlon James that chronicles his struggles as a gay boy and man in Jamaica, which had left him considering suicide. “I knew I had to leave my home country – whether in a coffin or on a plane,” he writes. He describes having been invited to church by an office colleague and getting “saved.” The church was called a clap-hands congre…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…ou’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline companion and give him this book, to surprise him, too—in a good way. (I would accept Lakers tickets in lieu of apologies, but I think that particular era is done.) This whole book is a result of a profound evolution, and needs to be seen as such. American Muslims have gone through a lot over the last few decades. We were never the caricature Islamophobes made us ou…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

At oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia So…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed the “dark side” of society would be edited, or in severe cases stopped. Jamaica: Outgoing ambassador defends U.S. LGBT advocacy but says it’s not tied to aid Outgoing U.S. ambassador Luis Morena said in an interview with the Jamaica Observer that while the U.S. will not use foreign aid to pressure the government to address LGBT issues—such as the colonial-era “buggery” law defended by religious conservatives—the U.S. will continue to advocate f…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…em, he seemed to be saying, is with blaming in the first place. Blaming an airline is disorienting because it applies a human-oriented inference system to an entity that simply doesn’t act like a person. So if we find ourselves blaming institutions, I asked him, are we already using a set of flawed psychological mechanisms? “It’s not that we’re using flawed psychological mechanisms,” he responded. “We’re using the only psychological mechanisms we…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…GBTQ people in Egypt from the end of 2013 until this month, November 2016. Jamaica: Vogue profiles “Gully Queens” Earlier this month, Vogue published Julia Felsenthal’s profile of “Gully Queens,” transgender women “defying Jamaica’s Culture of Homophobia.” Among them are four tans women who appear in the music video to British R&B singer RAY BLK’s “Chill Out.” The article describes a Jamaica that, while progress has been made in recent years, “rem…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ivist Maurice Tomlinson announced plans for an international conference in Jamaica that will examine the role that churches have played in imposing and maintaining colonial-era anti-LGBT laws that ironically, “are now viewed as demonstrating the moral and political independence of Commonwealth countries FROM Britain.” Jamaica has been the host of anti-LGBT conferences attended by U.S.-based religious right leaders. Keynoting the October 12-13 conf…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g societal norms…. Although there are growing pockets of LGBT tolerance in Jamaica, anti-gay attitudes continue to be fueled by some church leaders and dancehall reggae performers who disparage homosexuality. And as in other English-speaking Caribbean nations, sex between men, in fact, is unlawful in Jamaica, with violators subject to 10 years imprisonment and hard labour, although the anti-sodomy law is rarely enforced. US President Barack Obama…