Dwayne Jones was a Jamaican who was murdered in an anti-LGBT attack in Montego Bay on 22 July 2013, when he was 16 years old. His killing attracted national and international media attention and brought increased scrutiny to the status of LGBT rights in Jamaica.Perceived as effeminate, Jones was bullied in school and, at the age of 14, was forced out of his family home by his father. Homeless, he moved into a derelict house in Montego Bay with transgender friends.