Everyone knows JA is not an evil country, it's some of the ppl in it that makes it have a bad reputation. JA is like every other country or island in the world, it has to move with the times whether the ppl of JA likes it or not. As always ppl take comments too personal and act upon it in some cases. Ppl are entitle to be heard no matter what. JA's tarnished reputation is caused by drugs, guns, & violence, not by homosexuals. Get upset with the drug dealers & gangs that control JA. JA is a lovely place, shame about the high level of gun crimes by gangs/criminals.

Thus is so true I am a british women with a jamaican girlfriend. My fiancee lives in Jamacia and regularly suffers abuse. I have visited Jamaica twice to visit her, we have been spat upon, verbally abused in the street on a daily basis, been told in shops that they don't have have the product we want to buy and then see it then being sold blatantly to somebody else. I have been threatened with sticks and my girlfriend told she can't have me and i need a real man and all because my partner looks to mannish and doesn't have male visitors. We never act as a couple in public or show affection in public and yet we still suffer this abuse. After my first visit all the windows of the house were smashed in and we had to put metal grids up to stop it happening again. So don't tell me Jamaicia is tolerant to gay women and not homophobic because I personally know different and no police were interested when we tried to report the crimes either.

@ Sat, 2011-07-23 09:58 - Nuh tru. they should stop slagging off Jamaica and come here so they can get their stay here by questionable means it's the new thing it seems - go tell them that your gay/lesbian and are being abused and you will get your stay and it worked! Simple things to live in Jamaica and anywhere else for that matter - don't push it in their face what you do in the privacy of your own home and they won't bother you and you can live your life quite well.

Well done little lady. Get that stay by any means. LOL

Rubbish compete and untter rubbish. Last year myself and my family went to Jamaica on holiday we stayed in a hotel run and owned by 2 lesbians, We also stayed a the Jamaica Grand Hotel and never have you seen so many gay black men work in the same place...Now get that young lady and deport her lying rass...Human rights what about my human right to work and not have my tax money used to keep her arse in social housing and free dole,about your depressed you think your the only one who's depressed..Taking piss. Now off you go back to the land of milk and honey.

the british government are a soft touch! they fall for any hard luck story which might not be true!!!

What a joke Jamaican's always find some ways to get status i the UK. I know one girl who said that gun man shoot after her man; she came here got 1 day to remain never went back lived with her drugs selling man who is now deported and bing bag a british man make a baby never ever worked in the UK BUT GOT INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN... I know of somany other cases..........Lesbian? Doh!

The headline is misleading (Voice stop trying to be like the Sun) I'm sorry but if you read this article and similar, you would think that all Jamaica did was publicly flog and torture anyone who was gay/lesbian and spew out anti-gay songs all day long and that certinly isn't the case. I'm surprised Peter whatever his name is hasn't thrown his twopenneth worth in with the usual "how Jamaica is evil, full of homophopic killers etc, etc, At the end of the day I'm sure she wasn't made or had to endure listening to songs that had anti-gay lyrics, she said that she lived her life as a "discreet" lesbian, I thought your sex life/orientation, whatever it was, wasn't supposed to be up for public scrutiny and/or discussion unless you chose it to be. At the end of the day everyone does not have to like your sexual orientation and to be honest I don't care what you do - your private life, should be private and I am fed up of people demonising Jamaica over this as if we are the only country that has an opinion about homosexuality that doesn't agree with the majority of the Western world. I have friends who live and work in Jamaica who are gay and are in long term relationships who don't feel the need to go stand on a pulpit, shouting or parading their sexuality to anyone and I would think the same thing would apply to hetrosexuals as well.

Yes I agree someone shouldn't be persecuted about anything included in their sexual orientation and there are laws protecting those indivuals and I'm sorry this woman felt that she wasn't being supported hence her decision to come to the UK to feel more comfortable - hopefully she has found peace and is happy.

Education in tolerance is what is needed on BOTH sides - acceptance I feel is and always will a personal choice.

"A JAMAICAN lesbian "

Wha appen?Me know from long time Jamaican man can't satisfy di women dem......Cha