Dear Obama: Here's Why Jamaica's LGBT Community Needs Your Help
When people ask where I’m from, I hesitate. I’m from Jamaica, born there and raised in the way of immigrants in the West—in a cocoon of familiarity, communities that emulate “home.” Now, I live in the United States, and often feel like an unwanted “other”—a legal immigrant who literally faces deportation in the next four months. The words “home” and “origin” have lost meaning to me. I am a 28-year-old pansexual Jamaican immigrant. So "home" cannot be the country that would turn a blind eye if I were murdered in broad daylight for loving whom I love, and it cannot be the country that may send me back there anyway. All of this is top of mind, mainly because President Obama is on the way to Jamaica. The main reason for his visit is, of course, business. But there are some key issues President Obama should deal with—mainly, Jamaica's treatment of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
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http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/08/opinion-obama-travels-jamaica-tackling-homophobia-should-be-his-agenda
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