Video Shows Gay Man Stoned to Death in Jamaica

Unconfirmed social media posts link the crime to the city of Montego Bay.

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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A young Jamaican man was pummeled to death with rocks as his killers chanted antigay slurs, according to a video and local reports.

Video of the public execution was posted on a Jamaican news site and then removed March 3, according to the blog Minority-Insight. Common Jamaican antigay slurs like "batty boy" are heard as the man is killed.

PinkNews reports that the crime occurred in Montego Bay, though that's according to unconfirmed social media postings. The Jamaican government, known by some as complicit in antigay hate crimes in this deeply homophobic country, has not issued a statement on the video.

The Guardian newspaper recently interviewed 2,000 Jamaicans about their feelings toward gay people. Though the paper found widespread animosity toward gays, younger and more educated people expressed much less intolerance. Men, and especially those who listen to dancehall music, were found to be the most homophobic.