Commentary

Gay people, get real!

LAST WEEK I was ranting about how Amnesty dared to tell us how to live our lives, claiming that we should not be homophobic, and how it is wrong of us to kill and burn gays here in Jamaica.

Like anybody ever heard of any gays being burned here in Jamaica. As for that incident where they claim that police abused two gay men at the Rape Unit in 1996, what they forgot to tell everyone was that the matter was investigated and found to be, well, unfounded.

Now with the unfortunate murder of gay rights activist Brian Williamson, Amnesty is on the warpath again, labeling the murder a possible hate crime. In their zeal to beat the drums of gay sympathy, they have overlooked something that even I overlooked last week.

I said then that I could not remember when any gay man or woman was killed here in Jamaica. I lied. There have been a few I just did not remember at the time. What I also remember about those cases is that whenever a gay man was killed, he was killed by one of his own. One deviant taking out another.

Someone once told me that gays are so very passionate about their relationships that they are 10 times more jealous than any heterosexual obsessive lover could be. When I was a crime reporter I covered quite a few of those cases - gay men found dead in their homes, no signs of forced entry, and with multiple stab wounds. Does that sound like a hate crime to you, or a crime of passion? I wonder?

And when you look at it, there are very many people who have been killed because they were heterosexual. Too heterosexual, if you ask me. You know, a man or woman getting bun and taking matters into his or her own hands. I don't hear Amnesty protesting those.

Another victim

The other thing I don't get is that Williamson is like victim number 558 and just because he is gay, it becomes a big issue. That's five-hundred-and-fifty-eight people in less than six full months and Amnesty and JFLAG are up in arms over one man. I never heard them when people were getting murdered in Arnett Gardens a few weeks ago? What about those who were secretly gay and killed? Do those murders, too, become hate crimes? All murders are hate crimes. Just the other day some guy dug up another guy's grave and shot the corpse. Now, if that isn't a hate crime I don't know what is.

The problem with gay people is that they take themselves too seriously. Every time something happens to one of them, they are up in arms about how the world is against them, bawling discrimination and hate and everything else that they can call. To them I say, get real. Nobody really cares who is gay or who isn't. As a colleague of mine said the other day, what gays want to do in their own bedrooms is their problem, just keep it the hell there.

I can never condone the taking of a man's life no matter his sexual orientation. When a man is killed, it is a sad day for us all, whether he is homosexual, heterosexual or all-sexual, even though I don't know what the hell an all-sexual is. I guess someone could ask JFLAG but I guess we'll all have to wait until they come down from their soapbox, the one they're sharing with Amnesty, telling the world that gays are better than us all.