wade coopz
wrong, how could u not like the feel of a women, i cant understand, i dont have a problem with gay people, i have a gay friend, but wot r u ghys doing to our kids. and I don't think it should be ok 2 be gay on the tv. if i had 2 dads i would be confussed. who is gonna teach me how to interact with females. I don't feel its right, gay marrige and adoption.

sarah
black, white, gay, straight.. what does it matter?

Janine
God made adam and eve not adam and steve, but Jamaica take it too far! no1 should be hurt for being them selfs

Ross
i think anyone that uses their religion to justify homophobia is a hypocrite.the bible says things that everyone ignores, even priests ignore, yet people feel that they can't ignore homosexuality.Live, Love, and be happy. Period.

factual!
God says let himself be the judge and i say everyone should start concentrating on them selfs and not others ennit

100% JAMAICAN
THERE IS A GOD AND HE IS NOT A GOD OF CONFUSION HE MADE MAN FOR WOMAN AND THATS THAT...

jason seech
i bealieve being gay is wrong and unnatrural as we would have died out if everyone was gay also i think its unfair to raise a child in a gay family not fair at all

Martin
As a gay biracial male living in NYC, all I have to say is you'll never see me visit Jamaica - it's despicable .

boi
i do think it's nasty but if gay people wanna b gay leave them but i think it's wrong to start talkin about adopting kids - that's very wrong

baboon
Er...how do all the homophobic jamaicans on here think that Christianity got to Jamaica? Hate to tell you this, but it was imported by white people. So, er, basically, in being homophobic "because the Bible says it's wrong", you're still letting white people tell you what to do. Get politicised about things that actually matter.

one love
There are so many people saying that homosexuality isn't natural, when it's as natural as hetersexuality. Homosexuality has been around from the beginning, there is homosexuality in the animal kingdom, i read just the other day about 2 gay penguins who were given an egg to raise as their own at a german zoo and i know the same thing happened in New York zoo. God is love and love is everywhere. Have peace in your souls, hate will only consume you.

locoëlf
Some people will NEVER see things from a different viewIt is a waste even having a discussion with them like the way GOD always comes into sexuality. Where does GOD come in with murder,rape,robbery,racism,war,poverty,pollution,etc? The religious, anti-gay people act like God will reward them on judgement day for their wickedness. According to your religious beliefs you will be judged just as harsh for your hatred and violent acts. If same sex couples find love and want to be together it is none of mines or your business. In JA, it seems like people care more about homosexuality than the poverty and crime the island faces.

sule
yo its up 2 manz who choos wat they wnna b ent no ova manz gnna chnge dat n dey ent got ryts 2 say dat u b dis n dat, n i wudnt wanna b treated bad jst bcoz am a diff color or dat im diff cmpred 2 ova manz. ppl av ryts let em choos how they wnna b

Steve
them feee dead

Babe E
i fell dat u are whu u are and evryone is entitled 2 der own opinion and if you are gay dats your own situation der is no need 4 other people 2 judge yes god made us for man and women and as a christian i fell dat that is the truth but theres no need 4 people 2 discriminate agenst eacova juss becus of there sexuality !

Laura B
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". God is the only judge in this world. Before bringing god into this READ the WHOLE bible and it's commandements and exactly what jesus says. take it all into context. Gay or not. You shall not murder - Being gay is a sin in gods eyes yes but how does that effect your life. There's a lot more problems in this whole world than gays. Look at the poverty... the violence and the inequality. People deserve and should have the right to walk out there door being themselves without the fear of attack. thats the bottom line. Common sense. People are so insecure about themselves.

Valentino S. Tear
RED, YELLOW, and MEAN!!!!Boom bye bye , Jamaica must die!Rewind<<<

Leona
People need to EDUCATE!!!!!Its 2009 n thats wots happenin so deal wiv it PLEASE! Theres whey too many haters in this world...if people are happy just let them be n if you got a problem wiv it...EDUCATE, chill out n GET ON WITH YOUR OWN LIFE! Try n concentrate on hatin the REAL serious bad things goin on in this world...cuz there are FAR worse TRUST!!!It really ent a big deal...you only live once! Live YOUR life how YOU want n if you uneazy about sumet EDUCATE...maybe try it...you may like it =DPEACE!!!!! x

vibescity
i my self having it real hard bean gay in jamaica i have ti running a few times for my life i have get beating twice where they bust up my head and face to live your life as a gay men in jamaica don't worth it you going to get kill i have to move from where i live to next parish a i still have problem i have to been hiding for my life cant work

Blacka
It's 2009 and still enough ignorance to consume and blind us. Maybe it's because black people on the whole think this is white ting! Maybe they feel threatened by gay men. Thinking they might want to jump on them. What ever floats your boat. One thing I would say is don't bring religion into this the less said about the church and homosexuality the better!

J
I think the bottom line is that its not the way that things should be to be man with man or Women and Women because in the Bible God said that it is an obomination to the Lord. Now is eveyone going to say the God's Law is wrong. But God also gives free will. If those that such these ways of life fine but its on them. I am of JA parentage, live here in England were being Gay is very much pushed upon you if u like it or not (no one says anything about that but thats another story) however I work with too gay ladies and too be honest its their business. But if you are hiding that you are Gay them deep down you yourself know it is wrong. God love everyone so from Christs point of view we should love all. Hate the sinner and not the sin.

nash
at the end of the day we are who we are and life is too short too be moaning about other peoples lives u need to be happy with your own life and accept who people are,everyone is diffrent.life is too specil for me as a 16 year old.

What?
Those people who say that sex was meant for a man and woman to procreate, are you telling me every time you have sex you do so without contraception? No pills no condoms? Idiots. that you never just have sex for pleasure? What nonsense! The world is becoming such a horrible place i don't understand people who want to harm those who chose to love each other when we have people out there starving, dying and living in poverty...can you not direct your hate and anger towards people causing real pain?

lady from jamican decent
isnt the most beatiful thing in the world love. We cope with famine, war and hunger as long as there is the promise of love. Who cares in what shape that love comes in wethers its between a man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, mother and child its still beatiful.

Melesha
Jamaica dosen't accept gays because many feel God didn't want it to be that way... I don't have anything against gay people them, but I DON'T THINK IT'S RIGHT.

strawberry kisses
from a health point of view the homosexual community will always have the highest rate of hiv/aids. so basically they are killing off their selfs. so theres really no need to be chattin bout shooting up dem man deh kmt u seeit

Michael
What's wrong with Jamaica! Gay men and women are human beings at the end of the day and they have a write to a good life as much as anyone else. Why are Jamaicans so afraid of gay people?

Humphrey Kigozi
As an honest gay black man I find it disheartening that SOME of you hold such arrogant attitudes. I find it a pity that people still think so lowly of a disposition which is out of our control. The men interviewed in this documentary are brave and should be encouraged and not suppressed.

Blackz
Personally I don't see nothing wrong with gay people and im saying this as a hetrosexual black male (from jamaican decent!), in todays society we should be more tolorate of people, look how many years it took for black people to be recognised within society and now we've achieved something we want to knock others down and keep them in boxes, we should understand the struggle they have, and by understanding something it doesn't suggest participation at all, some of the jamaicans on here are just plain ignorant passing un-educated comments on a subject they only hear about whilst its being degraded. For society to move forward people need to remove the blind folds and look at the world the way it is! Nuff said!..

mik
i feel that other countries should mine ther businees if jamaica don't allow gays the do what you do and send them to jail are ship them to u.s.a or canada , england

proud african
honestly guyz we all knw homosexuality is nat kool, it goes against our black values and traditions, its also theologically despicable, personally i thnk the globe ova we should b making frantic efforts 2 stop it.

Nuff Said
It is said that humans fear what they don't understand and with fear comes anger, distrust and hate.Homosexuallity is percieved as unnatural, therefore it is to be distrusted a thing to hate.Life has a few rules, to deviate from these rules is to cause the pack to turn on you and shred you.This therefore is the cause of homophobia.

Marco
If anyone believes in religion, than they should realise that gay men are instrumental in controlling polulation just as war, famine, tsunamis, earth quakes, illnesses and diseases and old age which is a natural phenomenon. Imagine if every individual would procreate - there would be no place on this earth and no housing and NO FOOD. So if you are not educated and have no reason than get an education and feeeeeel reality for once - stop victimising homosexuals - It isnt normal as no one has the right to pass judgement on them - STOP MAKING YOUR OWN RULES and get a life.

lioninzion
I am a proud anti-gay jamaican.96% of our population is also anti-gay.We dont want to import your social poison in our country.Respect our laws.We are not going around the world dictating or imposing our social morals and values on people. We in jamaica prefer closeted homosexual behaviour.What you do in your bedroom is your business(even if you want to be inimate with a cow).However, you have no right to flaunt such despicable behaviour in our face thats amounts to provocation.

Kat
Point 1: Some of these people believed that it is wrong to be gay based on the believe of their religion. But what if someone does not believe in that religion, then shouldn't they have a right to be who they believe they are?Point 2: These men and women aren't doing anyone harm. They love each other. Isn't it true GOD said, love thy neighbour as you love yourself, and NOT love they neighbour, unless he/she is gay, as you love yourself. Point 3: People say they can't understand why gay ppl are together, can't imagine two men together, blah blah blah. If ppl are so interested in other people's business, how they live their lives, why don't they spend the same energy, songs decided to issues, and money on countries in war, famine, killings and all those EVIL THINGS man do to each other?! Why can't you use those energy and time to better your own life?

Natural
who decides whats natural or not????im sure many of you ppl do things everyday that are not "natural".Look at yourself ppl :>

nic
its all ok must be hard for them. they should move out of ja if possable. nothin rong with homosexuality and let them do we have more important things to bother about. anyway how many gay people do you know that are violent and meen? get over it i say and even iff its not natural they are born like that and no 1 wants to live thair whole life a lie married to a woman they dont even lov to b normal and its not fair on her eather.

nat
I would like to point out to any homophobes that as children we all start out as pologomous i thinks the word. It is only through fear of our masculine or femine inheritance that we repress inappropriate sexual urges and develop into functioning hetrosexuals. Check out Freuds work. It explains it alot better. 'Innit'

m.qwueen
dont like how yanaqara ended dat comment dont chat bout religion...its a sensitive ting init

nicki
na gals wiv men init all da way! der is sank wrong wiv it, if u dnt like a man stay 2 urself init!! forget dis lesbian nd gay stuff.

jj
dunt matter wat ne body tink is gona go on anyway so educate uself an find a way to understand it life got nuff truble without people hatin on others for hu dey lovin

jamaican numba1
I understand dat people dnt like it ca i not really feeling it either. But whateva i do there r still gay and lesbian ppl out there and i dnt think its fair for them to be killed ca they r different. Well as long as they dnt tell wat they like to do in the bedroom im happy

casey
Does the fact that something is not normal mean that it is wrong? Should well do away all really short, tall, or fat people? How does anybody have a choice about who they are attracted to? They may have a choice to act on their attraction, but the attraction is still there. Gay people exist and homosexual sex has existed before people- in several kinds of animals. It is not a social creation.

link
i say live & let live , gays don't bother me , what bother is all the fighting , killing .

Mona
I am a Syrian woman married to a Jamaican man and I think that being gay is totally against nature. Seriously just think about what gay men do to each other that aint natural man! And as another person already said humans are supposed to procreate!

yanaqara
First of all I want to presetn myself, I am a "third"world citizen, I am not occidental, I believe in a nature as a big body, where we just are insignificants. What people do with its intimicy is private, I CANT TELL PEOLPLE HOW THE BEHAVE OR BELIEVE, NOBODY CANT, and nobody can't do it IN THE NAME OF SOME GOD that not all people belives.

srsly
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.There is a lot of hate and misunderstanding about gay people. It is a discrimination that people have grown up with and it is hard for them to learn differently than with what they have grown up with.Pre-judging people for their race, color, creed, sex or sexual orientation are all wrong.Don't be so quick to judge, for one day you will be judged yourself.You cannot choose your skin color, neither can you choose your sexual orientation. It is not a choice to be gay.Stop living in the dark ages, and move up to 2008.

Son of a black gay
I read these emails with great interest. For many years I have been brought up with this jamaican homophoba, "Kill dem " " Shoot dem " B--man must dead " to name but a few of the deplorable chants. We are also subjected to vile chants about women, I have stood in dancehalls and the greatest cheer goes up when gays are being riddiculed !! or when the chant "Blackman no suck ***** etc etc a dam lie all a dem a tell !!I have always been proud of my heritage and my Jamaica, but I hate the way the homophobes carry on and the way they dis-respect women. Why are all these people so obsessed with what another human being does ? Is it jealousy ? envy? They do not know why the hate the gays, they can not think for themselves. " My own Jamaican people have turned my heart against them!! I hate these black ( Or any other )homophobes with a passion. My son told me he was gay last year, I am proud of him, love him to bits has he comes from my own flesh and I will never deny him. He has finished University with a first in Software design. You can never turn me against him. look to yourselves homophobes, and stop believing a book that has been re-written many times over.

Obama for real
i dnt fink deres anyfink rng with Ppll havin diffrent believes bt i do fink ders somfink rng with gay n lesbian it jos pathetic. why r we Adam N Eve instead of Pple takin demselves has Adam n Adam, Eve n Eve. Dis is y i ll alway love Africa n dem Muslim countries bcoz de governments der hvnt got time for all des nonsence.!

Zimbo
Hear me now, theres nuffin rong wid gay people. but what they do is rong. The purpose for humans is to procreate. So by 2 people of the same sex sleeping 2gether it does not achieve anything. Plus its strate nasty

daddy fridge pt2
see it there the artist dem clean up the lyrics like it says in the documentary then the gay guy says there doing it for air play we get hit in every way poss there is no win for us a joke thing fill away cause there is no way for us to get our point across i could have put my message in a totaly diffrent way of speach but would it get put up on the website understand my point now

daddy fridge
i was told when i was young adam and eve not steve thats my views i think when artist are told they can not come to the uk because of lyrics its a joke what happen to freedom of speach me not no buju came and could not sing boom bye bye why not thats his view get me weather black or white both do not like gay and some do just because the reggae artist do not fill no way to chat it we have to suffer more ah joke thing its being made bigger than it is and when i listen to the documentary i think it is right that the church say that being gay is wrong any way they will see when there time comes

soft & precious
we shud all live in peace n harmony... nuff sed blad

me baby
at the end of the day no-one has told us as humans the wrong and right way of living, therefore who are we to judge how that person choses to live. We are all people with a voice and a life so live it your way.

Kizzy
i think its disgusting the way gay/lesbain people are treated, i dont understand the voilence to it.. whats the point

chubby london nw10
man and man is unjust people must stop lie 2 dem self its not right!!!! you cant help what colour but you can help what sex you are attracted to.

dee
So how come all these people are talking about the homophobia in dancehall music and not about the way dancehall speaks about women or the artist big gun and what hes gonna/have done with it.Am i to believe that homosexuals are more important,are they? are their issues bigger than the hundreds of people that die each year due to the influence of murderous music.i dont believe in one taking anothers because of their belief but we can say sir because this is hower way of life/law if you brake the law you will be charge.

dee
It's clear to me that the world moves as fast forword as it does backwords, how can anyone believe it is normal to be gay.how come they dont understand when people judge them.man is the judge on earth if we weren't then nobody would be in prison. so tho i do wrong i will judge, it is not normal or if it is let all the men on earth be gay and see how long we populate earth for.cause it seems you want us all to die out.

RoyalJamaican
For people to even begin to accept them is foolishness......plan and simple....ITS WRONG AND NOT OF THE LORD!!Only God can judge YES....BUT God say a man an a man should not lie together....END OFF.....The point in sex is to reproduce....MAN AND MAN CANT REPRODUCE.....And for them to lie together is a thing I cant par wid!I cant chat wah me cant understand.....but theres nothing I WANT to understand about a man and a man....BIG UP JAMAICA.......

RASTAFARII
BACK IN THE YEARS PEOPLE USE TO STONE THEM TAH DEATH...WE HAD KINGS AND QUEENS ROYAL TRINITY... ITS DIDNT EXIST IN THE CARIBBEAN,WE HAD KING SUCH LIKE TUTU,RAS MOKONEN,QUEENS SUCH LIKE,QUEEN SHEBA AND Nefertiti.....I STRONGLY DISAGREE.

Christopher
I believe that more than 50 seperate animals do have same sex relations and relationships. More or less, it is about unity ... and being united is depending on survival and working hand and hand. Philosophically speaking I know that is correct. Big up to Jamaica, beautiful people. With love and respect to the children of the street. I will keep to my own however my voice and intellect won't stand alone.

Muj
everybody has to answer to God at the end of the day. just remember one ting - you are not God, so do not sit there anothers action, you can only advise and guide... it's up to a person whether they choose to act upon ones advice. simple really. to insult, criticise and hate someone for what they do is as much as a sin as you claiming theyre homosexual.

kelly
Dont rate them things at all.

Twizz
The problem here, as with much of West Indian history is one of invisiblity in the face of unending poverty and essentially right wing institutions (church and local governemnt.). Gay & lesbian people in the West Indies do have a history. It will be as old as slavery and beyond linking them to Africa. Certainly Kingston has been home to drag queen communities at times. The trick is too flesh out the narrative with facts where they can be found. Jamaica, of all the Islands, cultivated a relationship to crime as early back as the days when slavery, piracy and trade first started. Ordinary law was often held in contempt, & people could seek refuge and make dodgy deals . No doubt, as is common through-out history, gay people will have found a place to be themsleves in such an environment.

Sambuca
I don't think that being gay is right. That's the way I was brought up. I think it's out of the ordinary to be gay because if it was normal we would all be gay. I believe that God created man for woman and vice versa, as stated above. You don't come across gay animals so why gay humans? God put us on the earth to go forth and multiply, man and man can not go forth and multiply.

Honey''Babes
We are who we are. Don't like it? Do One.Nuff said blad.

ms j
God created man and woman to produce offspring, that is how i have been brought up, man on man is not in the bible, but each 2 there own, i work with a gay guy and i have no problem with him, i just dont want him to force his ways etc on me. but like the fore gone peeps says God is the judge.

Tiger
Who made shanteaze judge and jury?Live and let live, and maybe try not to be so damn narrow minded.

Ric
it makes me sick that in 2008 we cannot live our lives the way we want to, it shouldnt matter what your sexual orientation is, in the words of Martin Luther King, "judge by the content of our characater"

Gill
I cant believe how they treat people who are gay, you are who you are and you cannot change that, God does not judge, who gives us the right? Michaels story is the wake up call they need

josh
adam was made 4 eve not steve!!!

reece ellis
it's a minor you feel me

rach
You cannot judge what you don't understand! People feel this way not neccessarily out of choice. You cannot help who you are attracted to. And how can you mention God like you're a good Christian?? If you were a good Christian person you would be more accepting of all people. Only God can judge!! So I suggest you open your mind and let people be!

val chucky`
who am i? God i dont think so, if God can forgive the prostitute, regardless of the moral consequences who are we, yes it looked upon as an evil deed in much religions. i was brought up practising christian, but i believe, the only person who can judge anyone is God almighty above, after all we all make mistakes, we all have done things you "shouldn't have done" but did it anyway.

rian winspare
They all safe. nuttin wrong wit bein gay yano, whats all dis hype for !!

shanteaze
low dis ting man dat not how u ment 2 b God made man and woman 4 a reason bcoz man is 4 woman an woman is 4 man not man for man an woman 4 woman dats just wrong an any1 who says it kool 2 b dat way inclined is wrong aswell.