J-Flag is a community-based organisation dedicated to the human rights fo lesbians, all-sexuals and gays. J-Flag's work includes public advocacy and awareness raising, including work with the media, community groups and key institutions such as the police and church leaders. J-Flag also provides counselling, referrals and crisis intervention for those who are victims of homophobic assaults, including from the community and security forces.

The climate in Jamaica is extremely hostile to lesbians, all-sexuals and, especially, to gay men. Popular music routinely celebrates violent assaults on gay men and lesbians that are commonplace in poor communities in particular. Police and security forces are often collaborators in these assaults, or refuse to protect gay men while the assault is going on. Politicans openly exclude homosexuals from any discussion of civil rights, for example those being set out in the Charter of Rights currently being incorporated into the Jamaican Constitution. Religious leaders also preach in their churches, on radio programmes and in the print media that homosexuality is wrong and condemned by God. Some work has been done in building partnerships with key persons within these institutions, but that work is recent and vulnerable.

"Jamaican and Caribbean masculinity in general is an aggressive one, which exerts pressure on males to be masculine in their traits and heterosexual in orientation or else be viewed as feminine and socially weak, where they are then labeled as a “mamma man” or “sissybwoy”. As such, males are constantly required to prove their masculinity whether it is a demonstration of their virility through their number of sexual partners and children or through their active suppression of forms of supposed weakness such as the beating of those perceived as homosexuals.

Homophobia is an attitude that runs rampant in Jamaican society and culture; one that is openly propagated in popular media, especially by the dancehall music circuit. The most popular dancehall songs in previous years have actively endorsed violence against homosexuals, with lyrics advocating gun violence and physical beatings with real and metaphorical “fire” against homosexuals. Unfortunately, in many instances, the ignorant have taken these songs to heart with persons having and continuing to incite acts of hatred based on the lyrics and messages of such songs.

G has been with the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) since its inception in 1998, serving first as a volunteer, then as a fundraiser and programmer manager, and now as the organisation’s Co-Chairman for the last three years. He is a vocal promoter for J-FLAG, even taking risks such as appearing in the Jamaican print media and radio service to advocate for anti-discrimination and equal rights of homosexuals in Jamaica.

Partially as a result of his prominent activism, G has been subjected to acts of discrimination and violence. He has been a victim of homophobic attacks over the years, most significantly at the hands of Jamaican authorities, specifically by members of the Jamaican police . He has been subject to physical beatings by officers, most recently in an incident that received international attention, and has been witness to the brutal beating and eventual death of a comrade at the hands of police officers and an angry mob in 2004. He has repeatedly received threatening phone calls and has been singled out for harassment by police officers, and has been forced to relocate several times due to intimidation and threats upon his life. As a result, he has had to be careful to keep a low profile when in public gatherings because of his notoriety.

All too often in Jamaica, to be homosexual is in many cases to live a double life – to live a public one, where basic human rights such as the right to self-expression and to live free from the fear of persecution are denied, and a private one, where one lives in fear of exposure.

To be labeled a homosexual is to be subjected to open discrimination and physical assault, with a blind eye turned by the very institutions and systems meant to uphold the rights and protections entitled to every Jamaican. There is something rotten in the state of Jamaica, where the so-called “justice” of the mob and authorities to terrorise citizens are allowed to occur without consequences and justice for the victims. G has been one of the few who has consistently found the courage and strength to fight the tide of hate and discrimination in the hopes of attaining the equality and equal rights for the repressed homosexual minority in Jamaica."