Gay Pride celebration in Jamaica?

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  Aug 03, 2015 12:37 AM GMT

  
  
  KINGSTON, Jamaica – Just over a month ago, several social media users speculated about a possible Gay Pride parade in Jamaica. Did it actually occur?
  
  OBSERVER ONLINE obtained a photograph today, which shows participants at what appears to be Jamaica’s first Gay Pride celebration.
  
  Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Gay-Pride-celebration-in-Jamaica-
  

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  Aug 03, 2015 12:47 AM GMT

  That's kinda funny in an ironic way, because lately there have been a rash of shootings and anti-gay violence at the Pride events in more "accepting" nations, yet the most vehemently anti-gay Caribbean nation had one with no reported violence (so far).
  
  Maybe Jamaican society is getting used to gays now?

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  Aug 03, 2015 10:01 AM GMT

  Or maybe it wasn't publicized. No announcement. No press release. Just a picture with less than 15 people in it. Even the news story's tagline expresses uncertainty as to whether it was a pride celebration or not. I don't know Jamaica well enough to know that's not a picture in someone's back yard. So I wouldn't start tooting the horn of Caribbean acceptance just yet.
  
  Would be cool though.

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  Aug 03, 2015 3:15 PM GMT

  It was undisclosed. Actress Ellen Page was there.

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  Aug 03, 2015 5:16 PM GMT

  eckilegs saidOr maybe it wasn't publicized. No announcement. No press release. Just a picture with less than 15 people in it. Even the news story's tagline expresses uncertainty as to whether it was a pride celebration or not. I don't know Jamaica well enough to know that's not a picture in someone's back yard. So I wouldn't start tooting the horn of Caribbean acceptance just yet.
  
  Would be cool though.

  
  
  That was pretty much my thought--though I guessed a hotel, not a home--by looking at the very cropped picture with that manicured hedge and the fancy bollards along the curb.
  
  All understandable, however, given the situation there.
  
  "Small moves"
  
  

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