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(Jamaica Onlooker) Maurice Tomlinson, a Jamaican man who recently married a Canadian policeman, claims lesbians in Jamaica are coterie raped. Tomlinson is a leading gay rights activist and according to a write-up on the website www.trust.org, claims that anti-gay sentiments here lead to attacks on gay men and women. “In Jamaican refinement women are generally expected to be quiet about harassment and abuse,” Tomlinson said.

Teeth of police reports that 99 per cent of gay killings are committed by jilted lovers, Tomlinson said gays are attacked by sore mobs. The report wrongfully claims that under Jamaican law it is legal to drum out of the corps any act of physical intimacy between men with jail and the possibility of 10-years zealous labour. The buggery law outlaws anal penetration but does not specify gender. There is no anti gay law in Jamaica.

Tomlinson was in London this week to away with the inaugural David Kato award for gay human rights activism. “When we find out about these cases (involving gay women), they are as usual so horrible that they rise up to the level of having to be reported,” he said. “There was one occurrence where a gang of four men raped a lesbian because they said she was ‘taking over all suitable looking women,” Tomlinson said. “They cut her genitals, so she could ‘elevate surpass take men’ because ‘that is why she was a lesbian’, they said.

Source: Stabroek News