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Lgbt Community Homophobia in Jamaican Dancehall Music the Lgbt Face of the Us Civil Rights Movement the Plight of Gay Asylum Seekers Lgbt Runnymede Bulletin RUNNYMEDE summer 2011 / issue 366 Tackling racism in The lgbT communiTy homophobia in jamaican dancehall music The lgbT face of The us civil righTs movemenT The plighT of gay asylum seekers lgbT runnymede bulleTin dr rob berkeley Director ediTor’s sarah isal Deputy Director dr omar khan Letter Head of Policy research dr debbie Weekes-bernard Senior research & Policy Analyst julie gibbs Senior research & Policy Analyst WeLCOme to the summer 2011 edition of the runnymede Bulletin, flagship kjartan páll sveinsson publication of the uK’s leading race equality think tank the runnymede Trust. Senior research & Policy Analyst As the summer season guarantees Gay Pride events up and down the jessica mai sims research & Policy Analyst country, we centre our focus on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities among us. phil mawhinney research & Policy Analyst Through the lens of race equality, as ever, we explore everything from the vastiana belfon real Histories Directory plight of gay asylum seekers (page 4) to the establishment of europe’s first robin frampton black LGBT archive (page 26). Publications editor vicki butler But before further teasers of what to expect, a word about the acronym Public Affairs manager which pervades this issue of the Bulletin: We first decided to go with ‘LGBT’ klara schmitz when we saw it was the abbreviation of choice of all our contributors - bar Project Assistant none. Also, ‘LGBT’ represents runnymede’s desire to include members of all kamaljeet gill Project Assistant sexual minority communities in this discourse. rebecca Waller However, we are acutely aware that the individual letters within the acronym Administrator are not given equivalent airtime, either in this magazine or otherwise. We nina kelly Communications & have found that there is a dearth of work being done to address the needs Website manager of minority ethnic transgender people, in particular. Please do tell us if you iSSN 2045-404X know different. The runnymede Trust, One thing we’ve not been short of for this issue, though, is a beautiful image. July 2011. Open access, some rights reserved, if you like our cover photo, then you’ll want to get to rivington Place before subject to the terms 30 July to see the Autograph ABP exhibition of celebrated photographer of Creative Commons Licence Deed: Attribution- rotimi Fani-Kayode. Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 uK: Another date for your diary is 20 August for uK Black Pride. read a note england & Wales. You are free to copy, distribute, from one of its founders on the importance of organising the minority ethnic display and perform the work (including LGBT community, and check out some pictures from last year’s event, on translation) without written page 8. permission; you must give the original author Part of the reason that such events are so important is that prejudice, as credit; you may not use this work for commercial we discover, is not the preserve of majority communities. racism in the purposes; you may not alter, transform, or build gay community is the focus of Jaime Sylla’s piece on page 12, meanwhile upon this work. For more homophobia in Jamaican culture and music is given thoughtful analysis by information please go to www.creativecommons. Philip Dayle on page 11. org. For purposes other than those covered by Away from LGBT issues - though featuring a prominent gay poet and performer this licence, please contact runnymede. - is a piece on mixed-race identity and the arts on page 16. Written by yours truly, this article is happy overspill from last quarter’s edition, which focused runnymede is the uK’s on arts and culture. leading race equality So, now for sad news: this summer’s issue will be the last runnymede thinktank. We are a research-led, non-party Bulletin under my stewardship. i’ve had a fantastic year and a half editing political charity working this vibrant, forward-looking and yet reflective digital magazine. more to end racism. importantly, it has been inspiring to work with so many talented and intelligent people, all passionate about achieving race equality. cover image i now step from editor to avid reader, keenly awaiting the autumn issue adebyi (1989 ) along with the rest of you. Long may the magazine live under the assured by rotimi fani-kayode supervision of runnymede publications editor robin Frampton (robin@ courtesy of runnymedetrust.org). autograph ABP And finally, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed - whether autograph-abp.co.uk by writing, reading or lending an image - to the ongoing success of the rivingtonplace.org runnymede Bulletin. Your time, support and efforts are wholly appreciated. Nina Kelly, editor 2 | RUNNYMEDE BULLETin | Summer 2011 / iSSue 366 www.runnymedetrust.org conTenTs means The arTicle is relaTed To our Theme: lesibian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (lgbT) on The cover 08 12 racism in lgbT communiTy 14 coming ouT Jaime Sylla reminds us that racism Some sample snaps from an is not limited to majority groups upcoming exhibition: Ethnic Minorities Coming Out 11 jamaica? no problem Philip Dayle on Jamaica’s 16 young, gifTed & mixed race homophobia, but also, how its runnymede Bulletin editor brings reputation is not unique together the stories of three up- and-coming artists 10 learning from The us mudia uzzi and Charles Stephens 18 older & carefree? look at the LGBT and civil rights Phil mawhinney on how social movements in the uS care will need to meet the needs of ethnically diverse older people 14 07 gay & seeking asylum Julie Gibbs reports on the scrutiny 26 celebraTing a hisTory faced by those seeking asylum The rukus! Black LGBT Archive is because of their sexuality introduced by Ajamu regulars a vieW from... 04 neWs 22 ...scoTland A selection of race-related news ephraim Borowski examines the stories from the past few months Scottish Governments conception of cultural diversity 15 key facTs Ten things you didn’t know about 23 ...ausTralia race and the LGBT community Kon Karapanagiotidis on how indigenous Australians have 21 vox pop welcomed new migrants experts tell us what more must be done to meet the needs of minority ethnic LGBT people 11 24 revieWs Photo: Sonalle Photography Sonalle Photo: From muslim boys to minority 16 ethnic women in ealing 27 direcTor’s column rob Berkeley on why fighting homophobia is as important to him as fighting racism feaTures 08 uk gay pride Bisi Oyekanmi tell us why it’s important for minority ethnic LGBT people to come together 13 un commiTTee on race aynard m Klara Schmitz introduces iettinen runnymede’s project reporting to m the uN body on race relations Photo: Philip Philip Photo: Photo: Ville Ville Photo: www.runnymedetrust.org Summer 2011 / iSSue 366 | runnymede BULLETin | 3 neWs in brief Spike in number violent attacks linked to far-right groups A SLEW OF ATTACKS AGAINST reflecting views similar to those held who refused to let them off the train trade unionists and anti-racist groups by the EDL. at Grays in east London. Further have been carried out by supporters In response to the spate of attacks, incidents have involved the targeting of the English Defence League analyst Nick Lowles of Searchlight of a radical bookshop in Liverpool (EDL), a far-right street movement, said: “The threat is that, as far-right and an attack on a meeting about in recent months. activists decide the electoral path multiculturalism in Brighton. In the past few months, there have is no longer possible, we will see Weyman Bennett, from Unite been incidents of the EDL harassing more aggressive street-based groups Against Fascism, cautions that the anti-racist campaigners in Liverpool, linking up and a rise in racially and increasing frequency and escalating Brighton, and east London. politically motivated violence.” levels of violence of the attacks One incident involved a 20-strong In a separate attack, campaigners cannot be ignored. group of EDL supporters intruding on their way to deliver anti-BNP on a meeting on multiculturalism leaflets in Essex were confronted by Runnymede report on racist violence: organised by Labour councillors in around 40 to 50 far-right activists bit.ly/RacistViolenceEU Barking, east London in May 2011. The group threw concrete pillars, glass and rocks at the attendees, injuring several including Beverley, 48, an NHS worker who was in hospital for three days as a result of a severe wound sustained to her hand. Beverley relayed the disturbance to the meeting, explaining, “They were crazed on the other side of this glass wall. They started ripping pieces of glass off and frisbeeing them at us through the holes and then they started hurling rocks at us.” The attacks follow poor election performances by the British National Party, which campaigns on a platform Photo: Belkus Photo: new paper on diversity and the welfare state RUNNYMEDE HAS PUBLISHED that different ethnic groups in the UK the other hand would improve social a new comment piece on welfare, should interact in a meaningful way interaction, affirming the notion that diversity and solidarity, written by on a day-to-day basis, and one way we actually are ‘all in this together’, James Gregory, senior research fellow to achieve this is through universal as well as making institutions more at the Fabian Society. welfare policy solutions. efficient. This is because, the report Published in the week of the 63rd However, the report, entitled argues, those with the sharpest elbows anniversary of the NHS, the paper Solidarity and Diversity: Crisis, What are typically better able to make their argues that when rejecting universal Crisis?, highlights that policy is moving complaints successful and improve welfare reforms in favour of targeted in a targeted or means-tested direction, those institutions.
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