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Jamaican Anti-Sodomy Law, LGBTQI Discrimination Teddy Basham-Witherington Jamaican Anti-Sodomy Law, LGBTQI Discrimination Teddy Basham-Witherington

Long Road to Justice for LGBTQI Jamaicans

As a lawyer defending the human rights of LGBTQI people in Jamaica, I am accustomed to receiving death threats. But when I received a particularly vulgar and graphic email threatening to immediately end my life, I was so shaken that I finally went to the police. What happened next shocked me...

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