THE SHIT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE.!

Travel TV - Jamaica - Once You Go, You Know!


The link I have posted is one of the many commercials we see on our televisions. We are always shown the positive aspects of what these islands have to bring. Yet it is unreported that people on this island are knowingly or unknowingly infecting one another with HIV. But lets continue to be fed this ideal that traveling a beautiful island such as Jamaica is a great idea instead of helping these people.

THE GULLY QUEENS ARE GAY AND PROUD !

Growing up gay in Jamaica is extremely risky. I couldn't compare it to anything else because after many videos and stores I read and my outside knowledge of what it is like growing up homosexual on this island. My hat goes off to these individuals for having enough courage walk around the mean streets of Jamaica being who they are even though they are not accepted. 

What They Want You to See

So Being Gay Isn't Okay ?

Being Gay in Jamacia

A teen in Montego Bay was stabbed,shot and beaten at a street party for attending the party dressed as a female. Dane Lewis a gay advocate for those in Jamaica spoke with CNN news reporter on this tragedy and also spoke briefly on his experience coming out. 

HIV STATS & FACTS

HIV infections declined by 40% from 2005 and 2013, there were still an estimated 12,000 new HIV infections and a total of 250,000 people living with HIV in the region in 2013 

The drugs used to treat HIV are called antiretroviral drugs. There are several different types and they work in different ways. HIV treatment is made up of three or more antiretroviral drugs taken together. Sometimes, these drugs are combined into one pill.
Five countries account for 96% of all people living with HIV in the region: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) has improved significantly with coverage currently at 42% of people 15 years or older living with HIV in the Caribbean – an increase of 31% since 2011.1 - See more at: http://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/caribbean#sthash.ldLu8i3e.dpuf





The Caribbean transgender men and men whom have sex with other men are in one category whereas in other countries the two are separated. 
Data from Jamaica shows that more than 30% of gay, transgender and other men who have sex with men are HIV-positive.3 - See more at: http://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/caribbean#sthash.ldLu8i3e.dpu
If you are unaware homosexual in Caribbean cultures is a taboo. I personally have spoken to speak with a few people who are of island decent to get a perspective on being gay in the Caribbean and I got nothing but death stares, eye rolls and I spoke to a friend's grandfather who immigrated from Jamaica to New York and he simply looked at me and said "blood clot botty boy dem". 

HIV and AIDs in the Caribbean

HIV and AIDs in the Caribbean

HIV-positive guys reading mean dating app messages | GMFA, FS

HIV-positive guys reading mean dating app messages | GMFA, FS

"Spread Icing not Ignorance #rethinkhiv

Rethink HIV/AIDs

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: A Deadly Cycle of Stigma And Secrecy (Part 1)HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: A Deadly Cycle of Stigma And Secrecy (Part 1)

The History of HIV & AIDS

Since the early 80s there has been much debate of where HIV stems from, monkeys? gay men? needles? and I am sure the list goes on and on. Below is a well established timeline from the site Avert.com chronologically displaying the history of the virus.



History of HIV & AIDS

HIV/AIDs in the islands

http://www.newseuminstitute.org/religion/dialogue/pulitzer/

I choose HIV/AIDs in the Caribbean community because as someone of island descent and with many of friends who are of island descent I was never aware of how serious it has become in the  Caribbean. This is something that needs to be address because it could very well wipe out Jamaica and other places.