LGBT civil rights organizations outside of the country highlighted anti-gay bigotry and violence in Jamaica before the founding of J-Flag, most publicly in the Stop Murder Music campaign, and sexual minorities remain at risk of physical violence. "My experience as a gay man living in Jamaica is one which is marked by periodic incidences of abuse, both verbal and physical. I have lost count of the number of times I have been verbally abused, called ‘battyman', ‘chi-chi', ‘sodomite', ‘dirty battyboy' (all derogatory terms for homosexual men)." -- Gay man, talking to J-Flag, 2003.