FREE EVENT w/ cash bar
With support from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development, through Global Affairs Canada, an event in solidarity of Pride.
A cocktail hour discussion on homophobia, transphobia and LGBTQI violence and its impact on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Followed by a screening of "the Abominable Crime" including a Q&A session post-film with Maurice Tomlinson, Canadian-Jamaican activist featured in the documentary.
This is a documentary that follows the lives of two Jamaican men who have to choose between living in Jamaica and their safety after they have identified as homosexual. It explores homophobia in the Caribbean.
The aim of the event is to link... stigma and discrimination, demontrated through the hateful acts of homophobia, and LGBTQI discrimination, as a driving force of the AIDS epidemic in Jamaica and the Caribbean region.The event is in solidarity of Pride and contributes to raising awareness about the destructive impact of homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination to the LGBTQI community.
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SCHEDULE
Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
5:30-6:30pm Cocktail hour *cash bar
Introductions with Global Affairs Canada Youth Intern
Leah Morris
+ Discussions on homophobia as a driving force of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean and globally
7:00pm - 8:00pm Film Screening "The Abominable Crime"
8:00pm - 9:00 pm Q&A with Maurice Tomlinson
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ABOUT THE FILM
“The Abominable Crime” is a documentary that explores the culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans who are forced to choose between homeland and their lives after sexual orientations are exposed. In Jamaica being gay is a crime and violence against the LGBT community is widely approved and accepted.
Today, people like Simone and Maurice, two individuals documented in the film, must choose between exile or death. Maurice, Jamaica’s leading human-rights activist, was outed shortly after filing a lawsuit challenging his country’s anti-sodomy law. After receiving death threats, he escapes to Canada, and then risks everything to return to continue his activism.
In addition to many other awards, "The Abominable Crime" received the Audience Award at the Gay Filmfestival Freiburg 2016.
The Abominable Crime was produced by Common Good Productions with funding from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The Pulitzer Center promotes in-depth engagement with global affairs through its sponsorship of quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education. The Center's reporting on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean is supported by the MAC AIDS Fund.
