Round Hill, Jamaica.
Nov 29, 2019
4 minutes
Words Simon Gage
“We’re homophobic,” says the handsome Jamaican man eating opposite me with a grin. “But not as homophobic as everyone says. Isn’t that right?” and he turns to his husband for confirmation. The husband agrees. “They like to exaggerate about Jamaica,” he says. “Jamaicans are the fastest, the most violent, the sexiest… and the most homophobic. As much as we’d like some of that to be true – and some of it is! – it’s all part of the myth of Jamaica.”
And you might think that sitting in the smartest resort on the whole of the island, the homophobia out there wouldn’t matter, but these are the
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