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1 | Jamaica's Anti-Gay Protesters Don't Want to Be Called Homophobic | Tsy Tian'Ireo Mpanao Fihetsiketsehana Anti-Gay ao Jamaika Ny Antsoina Hoe Mpankahala Pelaka |
2 | The Jamaican flag is front and centre on a banner at a STOP HOMOPHOBIA demonstration in Berlin on August 31, 2013. | Manatrika sy afovoan'ny sora-baventy nandritra ny fihetsiketsehana STOP HOMOPHOBIA tao Berlin tamin'ny 31 Aogositra 2013 ny sainam-pirenena Jamaikana. |
3 | Photo by Flickr user Adam Groffman. | Sary avy amin'ilay mpisera Flickr, Adam Groffman. |
4 | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 |
5 | Jamaica, a country that has made headlines in past years for instances of anti-gay violence and homophobia from its leaders, is in the throes of a full-scale debate about gay rights. | Ao anatin'ny adihevitra mieli-patrana momba ny zon'ny pelaka i Jamaika, firenena fahita amin'ny lohateny lehibe ahitana trangan-kerisetra amin'ny pelaka sy ny hômôfôbia (fankahalana pelaka) avy amin'ny mpitondra azy tao anatin'izay taona vitsy izay. |
6 | The media have framed the issue as a David vs. Goliath battle of traditional Christian values against the gay lobby, and anti-gay groups have been vocal in their condemnation of homosexuality. | Nanasokajy izany tranga izany ho tahaka ny adin'i Davida sy i Goliata ny fampahalalam-baovao, adin'ny hasina Kristianina nentim-paharazana amin'ny fanerena ataon'ny pelaka, ary nanam-peo amin'ny fanemeloahana ny fahapelahana ireo vondrona anti-gay. |
7 | But despite their unabashed opposition to gay rights, some are trying to distance themselves from being labeled “homophobic.” | Na dia eo aza ny fanoherana sahisahy ataon'izy ireo amin'ny zon'ny pelaka, niezaka nanalavitra ny tsy hametahana azy ireo ho “hômôfôby” (mpankahala pelaka) kosa ny sasany. |
8 | A popular slogan among protesters who recently rallied against a possible repeal of a colonial-era buggery law, which criminalises sodomy, claims, “Speaking truth is not homophobia.” | Hoy ny teny filamatra malaza teo amin'ireo mpanao fihetsiketshana izay nanao hetsika vao haingana manohitra ny mety ho fanafoanana ny lalàna momba ny sodomia tamin'ny vanim-potoanan'ny fanjanahantany, izay manameloka ny sodomia hoe “tsy hômôfôbia ny filazana ny marina”. |
9 | Author Kei Miller, who has taken on the media's skewed narrative of the gay rights debate before, examined the trend: | Mpanoratra Kei Miller, izay nilaza ny fitantarana diso nataon'ny fampahalalam-baovao amin'ny adihevitra momba ny zon'ny pelaka, nanadihady ny fironana: |
10 | This declaration by negation is getting quite popular across the island. | Nanjary nahazo vahana manerana ny nosy izany fanambaram-pandavana izany. |
11 | The term homophobia is now regarded as a pejorative - a bad and backward thing to be - and so everyone wants to distance themselves from it. | Sokajiana ho ompa ankehitriny ny voambolana hômôfôbia - zavatra ratsy sy taraiky be - ka lasa te-hanalavitra an'izany ny rehetra. |
12 | But sometimes the assertion ‘I am not homophobic!' is a bit like that proverbial American southerner who declares, ‘I'm not racist! | Saingy indraindray, ny filazana hoe «tsy hômôfôby aho!” dia toa mitovy kely amin'ny ohabolan'ny Amerikana tatsimo izay manambara hoe:« Tsy mpanavakava-pirazanana aho! |
13 | Some o' mah best friends is niggers!' | Mainty ny sasany amin'ireo tena namanakà! |
14 | The post delves into the etymology of the word “homophobia” and argues that it exists on a spectrum, with some responses toward homosexuality being more extreme than others: | Mirona any amin'ny fiavian'ny teny “hômôfôbia” ny lahatsoratra ary milaza fa misy karazany izany, ka misy ireo valinteny masiaka sy henjana kokoa noho ny hafa manoloana ny fahapelahana: |
15 | Homophobia is therefore not a phobia in the medical sense of the word. | Tsy tahotra araka ny dika ara-pitsaboan'ny voambolana ny hômôfôbia. |
16 | It never has been. | Tsy mbola nisy mihitsy izany. |
17 | Homophobia, like its sister xenophobia, is a form of bigotry and discrimination. | Hômôfôbia, tahaka ny rahavaviny xenôfôbia, dia endri-pisainana tery sy endri-panavakavahana. |
18 | It can include fear and repulsion but in fact it describes a much wider range of negative responses towards the LGBT communities. | Mety ahitana tahotra sy fankahalàna goavana saingy raha ny marina, mamaritra karazam-balinteny marobe manaratsy ny fiarahamonina LGBT izany. |
19 | If “you are disgusted by the act of homosexuality and you wish to impose or retain laws that limit the expression of that sexuality, then you probably are homophobic,” Miller writes. | Raha maharikoriko anao ny fihetsika fahapelahana ary maniry ny hametraka sy hihazona lalàna mametra ny fiteny ara-pananahana momba izany ianao, dia azo heverina fa “hômôfôby”, hoy i Miller nanoratra. |
20 | Miller has kept the discussion about Jamaica's collective attitude towards homosexuality alive on his blog since the debate first erupted in early May, when Jamaican professor Brendan Bain, who was then then head of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network (CHART), gave expert testimony in the Belizean case of Caleb Orozco, a gay man who sued the country's attorney general over the unconstitutionality of the criminalisation of homosexual relations. | Nanohy ny adihevitra momba ny fihetsika iombonana ao Jamaika manoloana ny fahapelahana tao amin'ny bilaoginy i Miller hatramin'ny nipoiran'ny adihevitra voalohany tamin'ny fiandohan'ny volana Mey, raha nanolotra fijoroana vavolombelon'ny manam-pahaizana momba ny raharahan'i Caleb Orozco, lehilahy belizeana pelaka izay nitory ny lehiben'ny fampanoavana tao amin'ny firenena amin'ny maha-tsy tsy mifanaraka amin'ny lalàmpanorenena ny fanamelohana ny fiarahan'olon-droa mitovy taovam-pananahana, ny profesora Brendan Bain, lehiben'ny Tambajotra Rezionaly Mampiofana momba ny HIV/AIDS ao Karaiba (CHART) tamin'izany fotoana izany. |
21 | Bain said “the relative risk of contracting HIV is significantly higher among men who have sex with other men (MSM) in Belize than in the general population,” and noted that this is also the case in “several other countries for which data are available, including countries that have repealed the law that criminalizes anal sex and countries where the law still applies.” | Nilaza i Bain fa “ambony tanteraka ny taha mety hahazoana ny VIH eo amin'ny lehilahy manao firaisana ara-nofo amina lehilahy (HSH)” ao Belize raha oharina amin'ny vahoaka ankapobeny, ary nanamarika fa tahaka izany ihany koa ny tranga ao amin'ireo “firenena hafa marobe izay azo jerena ny tahiry momba izany, anisan'izany ireo firenena izay nanafoana ny lalàna manameloka ny firaisana ara-nofo avy eo amin'ny lava-pitombenana sy ireo firenena izay mbola mampihatra ny lalàna”. |
22 | Bain's statements angered members of the gay community, who felt they supported anti-homosexuality laws. | Nahatezitra ireo mpikambana ao amin'ny fiarahamonin'ny pelaka izany fanambaran'i Bain izany, izay tsapan'izy ireo ho manohana ny lalàna manohitra ny fahapelahana . |
23 | Two weeks after his testimony, Bain's contract with CHART was not renewed by Jamaica's University of the West Indies, sparking a national debate about gay rights. | Roa herinandro taorian'ny fijoroany vavolombelona, mbola tsy nohavaozin'ny Oniversiten'i Jamaika ao Antilles (West indies) ny taratasy fifanekena teo amin'i Bain sy ny CHART, ary niteraka adihevitra nasionaly momba ny zon'ny pelaka. |
24 | People protested against the university and Bain sued for wrongful dismissal. | Nanao fihetsiketsehana manohitra ny Oniversite ny olona ary nitory noho ny fandroahana tsy ara-dalàna an'i Bain. |
25 | In his post, Miller acknowledges that certain strides have been made in combating the country's homophobia, but much remains to be done: | Tao amin'ny lahatsoratra navoakany, miaiky i Miller fa nisy ihany ny ezaka vita amin'ny ady amin'ny hômôfôbia ao amin'ny firenena, saingy maro ireo ezaka tokony mbola atao: |
26 | It is a good thing that we are now willing to step away from the more extreme expressions of homophobia. | Efa zavatra tsara fa vonona hiala amin'ny fiteny tafahoatra indrindra momba ny hômôfôbia isika ankehitriny. |
27 | It is a sign that, despite everything, some progress is being made in Jamaica. | Marika izany fa, na dia eo aza ny zava-misy, nisy ny ezaka vita tao Jamaika. |
28 | But the homophobia we must now work to challenge is a homophobia that is more subtle, more internalized, but one that is just as damaging in the long term. | Saingy ny hômôfôbia izay tokony hotoherintsika ankehitriny dia hômôfôbia marani-tsaina kokoa, any anaty kokoa, saingy koa mety manimba ao anatin'ny fotoana maharitra. |
29 | It is so ingrained that we take it for granted. | Tena miorim-paka lalina ao amintsika fa toy ny zavatra efa ekena. |
30 | We must now confront that homophobia as it exists in many of our values and also in our laws. | Mila miatrika isika ankehitriny fa ny hômôfôbia dia mitoetra ao amin'ny soatoavintsika marobe sy ao amin'ny lalànantsika ihany koa. |
31 | Further south along the archipelago, in Trinidad and Tobago, activist Brendon O'Brien contends that the Caribbean in general is being targeted by anti-gay Christian groups because the appetite for homophobia is waning in the U.S.: | Atsimo kokoa manamorona ny vondro-nosy, ao Trinité-sy-Tobago, mpikatroka iray, Brendon O'Brien nanamafy fa kinendrin'ireo vondrona Kristianina manohitra ny pelaka i Karaiba manontolo satria mihalozotra ny fanaitaizana ny hômôfôbia ao Etazonia : |
32 | The language of discrimination and ostracism that is present in anti-gay ministry is being rejected more and more as now half of the states in the US are acting against LGBT discrimination and even providing marriage equality. | Miha-voatsipaka hatrany hatrany ny toritenim-panavakavahana sy fanilihana ny pelaka satria ny atsasaky ny firenena ao Etazonia ankehitriny no mihetsika manohitra ny fanavakavahana ny LGBT ary miantoka ny fitovian'ny rehetra amin'ny fanambadiana ihany koa aza. |
33 | The good news is that means that they're losing ground there. | Ny vaovao mahafaly dia midika izany fa very kianja izy ireo any. |
34 | But, if you're capitalist, you know that means that you need to find new ground. | Saingy, raha kapitalista ianao, dia fantatrao ny dikan'izany fa mila mitady kianja vaovao ianao. |
35 | And that means a whole new scramble for the Caribbean and Africa as places to keep beating the dead homophobia horse. | Ary midika firohotana vaovao mankany Karaiba sy Afrika izany hikapokapohana hatrany ny soavaly matin'ny hômôfôbia . |
36 | O'Brien believes that the real power lies in the hands of Caribbean people. | Mihevitra i O'Brien fa eo am-pelatanan'ny vahoaka Karaiba ny tena fahefana. |
37 | “Now it's just up to us to demand that evangelicals stop bringing their surplus of hate to our countries,” he writes. | “Ankehitriny, miankina amintsika ihany ny mitaky amin'ireo mpitory filazantsara mba hitsaharan'izy ireo amin'ny fitondrana fankahalana fanampiny hoan'ny firenentsika “, hoy izy nanoratra. |
38 | “…if rejection of homophobia in the U.S. is any example, sooner or later, we'll stop buying what the hateful are selling.” | “… raha ohatra iray ny fitsipahana ny hômôfôbia ao Etazonia, na ho ela na ho haingana, hitsahatra hividy izay amidin'ny fankahalàna isika.” |