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Jamaica's Gays Being Granted Asylum in US

Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:32 PM EST

The United States is facing "a small wave of gay Jamaicans" who have fled their homeland  for fear of persecution and have been granted asylum in America, the Washington Post reports.

According to the Post, gays and lesbians have been allowed to apply jamaica,gay,asylum,united,statesfor asylum in the United States since 1994, and must prove a credible fear of persecution. The federal government doesn't track how many homosexuals are granted asylum annually, but an an immigrant gay-rights group says it helped 92 gays and lesbians win asylum last year. Of those 92, nearly a third -- 28 -- were from Jamaica alone.

Sodomy is a crime in Jamaica, but its government denies that it is a violently homophobic country.

"I don't believe we are more homophobic than anywhere else," Cheryl Gordon, deputy chief of mission at the Jamaican embassy in Washington, told the Post. "I believe we are more tolerant than anywhere else."

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The United States is facing a small wave of gay Jamaicans who have fled their homeland for fear of persecution and have been granted asylum in America, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, gays and lesbians have been allowed to applyfor asylum in the...
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