Get Up Stand Up: Gay-Rights Groups Dump Jamaican Booze

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There’ll be no pina coladas tonight, mon. The Jamaica observer reports gay-rights advocates poured the libations down sewage drains at Stonewall Inn in New York this week protesting Jamacia, “the most homophobic place on earth.” Human right groups and the US State Department cite beatings and arbitrary detainment, along with gay-attacking mobs and complicit police among the Jamacian government’s crimes against homosexuals.

The “rum dump” kicked off a national boycott organized by the website Boycott Jamaica, which is asking consumers to avoid Jamacian booze, beer, coffee, and vacations. So how’s a gay-rights supporter supposed to get her party on this weekend? Well, there’s always Templeton Rye, whiskey made in gay-marriage-friendly Iowa.