From Intolerance to Pride for Professor Marlon James

Marlon James, is a well deserving winner of the Man Booker Prize. Jamaicans are overjoyed with such accomplishment of a native. This elation is expected, yet hypocritical. It is ironic and cannot be forgotten that, while in Jamaica, Professor James lived in an uncomfortable environment as he dealt with homophobic haters and bullies who made his life unbearable throughout high school until adulthood. Professor James is now the pride of  a country where persons of the LGBT community live in a society that has no tolerance or intentions of changing the buggery laws. Professor James is a Jamaican and certainly shows pride in his heritage. But, in honoring Professor James, let Jamaicans not forget their disdain for people like himself who openly profess their homosexuality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/magazine/from-jamaica-to-minnesota-to-myself.html?_r=1

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamaica-rejects-buggery-law-repeal--same-sex-marriage