What Happens to Those people who Choose to be Gay??

Simone and khayla being interviewed by Micah of the Pulitzer center

Anti-gay rally in jamaica

People that are openly gay in Jamaica usually flee the island, attacked ruthlessly by pedestrians or in many cases a mob, or killed.  I followed a story on the pulitzer website by Micah Fink a journalist that went to Jamaica and interviewed individuals that were effected as a result of the islands homophobic mindset.  He interviewed a lesbian women named Simone Edwards.  When they first met Simone was just discharged from the hospital after sustaining 2 gunshots wounds as a result of an anti-gay attack.  Since then she has been in hiding and was forced to leave her daughter Khayla behind in search of refuge in the Netherlands.  At first she pleaded to american officials to give her an American visa but she was denied. Simone has found a new life in the Netherlands and has been reunited with her daughter, but it's heartbreaking to know that she had to leave the home she once loved.  This is the harsh reality that homosexuals face in the jamaican community.  hundre