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Inter-American Center for Human Rights Presents – The Abominable Crime, Oct. 21
The Inter-American Center for Human Rights at NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center will present a screening of “The Abominable Crime” followed by a Q&A Session.
“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. He speaks on camera after the screening of the film to personally share his experience.
Date: October 21, 2013
Location: Performance Theatre – Don Taft University Center
Time: 7:00p.m. – 8:00p.m. (Screening)
8:00p.m. – 9:00p.m. (Q&A)
A cocktail hour will be held on the 2nd Floor of Don Taft University Center from 6:00 – 7:00p.m., just prior to the screening.
This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information about the screening, contact S. Seltzer at ss2584@nova.edu. For more information about the film visit – The Abominable Crime. 