Summary
One of the main existential challenges that most Jamaican men must confront is their use of homophobia to create boundaries to isolate themselves from other men. Homophobia is truly the fear that keeps men straight in Jamaica. The effect of it was evident at the men's conference. Most men were angry or at least uncomfortable when the ex-Jesuit priest, Martin Schade, gave what appeared to be a pro-homosexual viewpoint with emphasis on the fact that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (the mental health bible for diagnosing mental illnesses) had dropped homosexuality from its long list of mental illnesses.
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Man-and-Man Relationship (Pt I)
--V.S. Naipaul's novel: `A Bend in the River' begins: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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