Gay-rights protestors interrupt Jamaica’s Prime Minister Simpson Miller’s speech in NY

Washington Blade is reporting that the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered (LGBT) rights advocates on Thursday interrupted Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s speech to members of Jamaican Diaspora in New York.

Members of Jamaica Anti-Homophobia Stand, a group that advocates for LGBT Jamaicans, interrupted Simpson Miller as she spoke at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan.

The advocates challenged the Jamaican prime minister over what they perceive as her Government’s insufficient response to rampant anti-LGBT violence on the island that continues to make headlines around the world.

It is reported by the news medium that Simpson Miller challenged the protesters from the podium.

“Nobody ever hears the Government of Jamaica beating up gays; not one,” she said.

“Let me tell you something; you want to disturb, you can disturb, but this woman came here with the blood of Nanny of the Maroons and the spirit of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, and this woman is not afraid of no man, nowhere, anywhere. And I will speak the truth everywhere.”

Members of the advocacy group also confronted her outside the church.

They chanted “Gay rights Portia. Protect Jamaica’s gays” as she entered the building.

Loop News Service