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![]() He added: “This continued into my school life where the bullying started when I was about seven, until I was about 17.” I always teased and picked on, because I was more effeminate growing up, so the assumption is that I was gay, so they teased and picked on me and I felt excluded from my family, so I started isolating from an earlier age since I was seven,” McDuffus told The Gleaner. “I was treated differently by some family members. McDuffus, now 32 years of age, recalls being called “every gay name a male in Jamaica can be referred with, such as ‘sissy’, ‘fish’, while living in the country. His effeminate traits while growing up, based on the way he dressed and demeanour, being polished, neat and fashionable, and the way he spoke formal unlike the Creole-speaking children in the communities he grew up in, made him become a direct victim of bullying. ELTON MCDUFFUS recalls being bullied since he was seven years old, not because he verbally expressed that he was sexually attracted to the same sex as he was, but because of how he spoke and acted.
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