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Jamaican lesbian avoids deportation by GO Magazine staff August 11, 2008 |
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photo by www.istockphoto.com
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A 29 year old lesbian woman avoided deportation due to her homeland's intolerance towards homosexuality.
Nichole, her middle name, and all that she will allow to be printed, was charged with two drug convictions, and Judge Irma Lopez-Defillo ordered her deportation. In the same ruling, he ordered her deportation to be deferred as he says, 'The general atmosphere in Jamaica is a feeling of no tolerance towards homosexuals in general, and as such, . . . the respondent's life is definitely at risk."
Many human rights organizations have criticized Jamaica for allowing violent homophobic rants and attacks pursue, without any protection from the law.
Being gay ''is the worst thing you can be stricken with [in Jamaica],'' Nichole recently quipped in her attorney's West Miami-Dade office. ``You basically have to live under cover.''
Her brother gave this statement in defense of his sister, saying, ''Nobody would accept her,'' also recalling on the stand how he once witnessed in Jamaica two men believed to be gay chased up a tree and then pelted with stones. ``I don't know where [she] would live or what she would do. It's not a good move for her to go back to Jamaica. I'm strongly against that move.''
Nichole is staying in Sunrise with her parents, and is due to report back to the immigration authorities in three months.
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