Name: Global Queer Rights Perspective: the Jamaican Edition
Start: 2022-11-17T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-11-17T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Framer Framed

Global Queer Rights Perspective: the Jamaican Edition

Framer Framed

Film screening of 'The Abominable Crime' and conversation with Timothy Paul

<h3>Join us on the 17th of November from 19:00 until 21:00 for the screening of the documentary The Abominable Crime (2013) followed by a panel discussion. The featured film explores the culture of homophobia in Jamaica and addresses love and loss, migration anxiety and whether or not we can truly escape our past. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion hosted by Timothy Paul.</h3>The event is free and in English. Please register via Eventbrite to join us.Framer Framed in collaboration with Timothy Paul presents Global Queer Rights Perspective: the Jamaican Edition. In this edition, we highlight Caribbean queer voices from Jamaica with the screening of the 2013 documentary The Abominable Crime by Micah Fink. The film explores the culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans who are forced to choose between their homeland and their lives in the face of endemic anti-gay violence. The featured film addresses love and loss, migration anxiety and whether or not we can truly escape our past. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion moderated by Timothy Paul.About: The Abominable Crime1 h, 5 mins | Language: English with English subtitlesSynopsis: The Abominable Crime is the story of Simone, a young lesbian single mother who survives a brutal anti-gay shooting and Maurice, Jamaica’s leading human-rights activist, who is outed shortly after filing a lawsuit challenging his country’s anti-sodomy law. Simone must choose between hiding with her daughter in Jamaica in constant fear for their lives or escaping alone to seek safety and asylum abroad. Maurice, meanwhile, escapes to Canada and then risks everything to return to continue his activism. Told first-hand as they unfold, the personal accounts of gay Jamaicans take the audience on an emotionally gripping journey traversing four years and five countries. Their stories expose the roots of homophobia in Jamaican society, reveal the deep psychological and social impacts of discrimination on the lives of gays and lesbians, and offer an intimate first-person perspective on the risks and challenges of seeking asylum abroad.Image: Filmstill, The Abominable Crime

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