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U.S. FILM “ABOMINABLE CRIME” GIVES A VOICE TO GAY JAMAICANS!

Simone Edwards— By Janet Silvera— American journalist, film director and producer, Micah Fink’s only connection to Jamaica is through his heart.  It is now obvious that his heart bleeds barely by witnessing the culture of homophobia, which he says has contributed significantly to pushing up the country’s HIV rate. Fink, through funding from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, has produced a documentary titled, The Abominable Crime, which he says, exposes gross human rights violations against homosexuals in Jamaica. The film, which is the curtain call for the Afropop Film Festival in New York, tomorrow, features a lesbian single mother – Simone Edwards, who survives a homophobic shooting and must choose between escaping from Jamaica alone, or risk everything by staying with her daughter, is how the film has been presented to the international community. Jamaican … Read entire article »

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