Comments on: JAMAICA STAGES FIRST PUBLIC GAY PRIDE https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alexis Jarvis https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9834 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9834 I like the attention the walk is getting but I’m having a problem with how it is being portrayed. The international media has this walk as gay pride, and so does the local media. Mind you it was a participant who used those words and it may have well felt like gay pride to him, we can’t dictate how one feels of an event.

I was a participant, I was happy to have been there happy to have been part of history, but I feel it has been twisted by local media to highlight the LGBT group that was there; and if it were that that was at the heart of it all, I would feel cheated and used. This is not to say that I would not have participated.

]]> By: Alexis Jarvis https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9835 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9835 I like the attention the walk is getting but I’m having a problem with how it is being portrayed. The international media has this walk as gay pride, and so does the local media. Mind you it was a participant who used those words and it may have well felt like gay pride to him, we can’t dictate how one feels of an event.

I was a participant, I was happy to have been there happy to have been part of history, but I feel it has been twisted by local media to highlight the LGBT group that was there; and if it were that that was at the heart of it all, I would feel cheated and used. This is not to say that I would not have participated.

]]> By: whynot https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9838 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9838 tolerance. Hopefully this can be the start of awareness of the violence and a more tolerant society . Look at the first marches in SA and what has been achieved here.

Good luck to all those in Jamaica

]]> By: Denzil Adams https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9839 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2010/04/08/jamaica-stages-first-public-gay-pride/#comment-9839 Jamica Pride. Change isn’t coming anymore…….

Its HERE!!!

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