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INTER POURS ONE OUT FOR SUPER MAR 64’S ‘GAY BOWSER,’ WHO IS AD NOW

Buju Banton’s "Boom Bye Bye" beme a smash h 1992 wh lyrics advotg for the murr and torture of gay men. We asked five queer Caribbeans to unpack the song’s legacy and impact on their liv. * gay bye *

One of the most popular was Buju Banton’s 1992 sgle “Boom Bye Bye, ” a track that followed a tradn of Jamain songs that poe vlence agast queer people — and one that beme lodged the memori of queer Caribbeans, makg clear that homophobia was alive and well our hom and muni. Origally wrten when he was jt 15 years old, “Boom Bye Bye” fds Banton llg for the murr and torture of “batty boys, ” a Jamain patois slur for gay men (whom the star nflat wh pedophil).

Though Banton would go on to break Bob Marley’s rerd for the most number one songs Jamai, the artist attracted protts om LGBTQ+ advot throughout his reer, leadg him to sign a 2007 pledge lled the Reggae Compassnate Act where he and other proment reggae artists agreed to stop performg songs wh homophobic lyrics. Its populary and overt homophobia have helped to rerce queerphobic sentiments and ma harr for LGBTQ+ people to seek acceptance throughout the Caribbean.

My mother tells this story about a time when her father and my nts and uncl were drivg to the village; he was potg out gay people, trans people, drag queens, and told them, “If any of y’all end up like this, I’m gog to shoot you. Today, I see people om Jamai fightg the homophobia this song embodied. Among gay men, he might be a youngish feme man, ak to a “twk.

WHY DO SO MANY JAMAINS HATE GAY PEOPLE?

Super Mar 3D All-Stars chang Mar’s inic le om "so long, gay Bowser" to "buh-bye," and while the actual voice actg was likely "so long Kg Bowser," the ter is cshed about this tweak the Ntendo Swch versn of Super Mar 64. * gay bye *

Not long afterward, the gay muny began g boi to mean a young, attractive gay man, as on the ver of XY magaze 2000.

Durg this heroic act, sounds like Mar says, “So long, gay Bowser” — but that inic misheard le is no longer prent the versn of the game that appears Super Mar 3D All-Stars on Ntendo Swch. There is a lot of fan nostalgia and love for the “gay Bowser” le that ’s pretty much a meme.

() Wh a transgenr woman Congrs and the immense populary of shows like Queer Eye and RuPl's Drag Race, gay culture is currently at the foreont of mastream Filipo nscns a way has never been before. Likewise, lol gay lgo (more monly known as "bekispeak") is evolvg. Provg jt how funny the evolutn of language n be, achoo is the newt eratn of the classic beki term "pamta, " which refers to gay men who seem like they're straight.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

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My last post scribed a populatn of mal who nsir themselv heterosexual, do not label themselv gay or bisexual, chew volvement wh the LGBT muny, are often married or romantilly volved wh an oppose-sex partner, and who engage sex wh mal or exprs the sire to do so. Due large part to the popularizatn of the topic the btsellg 2005 book On the Down Low: A Journey to the Liv of 'Straight' Black Men Who Sleep wh Men, [i] Lato and Ain-Amerin men are the primary subjects rearch wh non-gay intified MSM.

One of the earlit studi, "The Bisexual and Non-Gay Attached Rearch Project" om the early 1990s, found that participants engagg same-sex sexual behavr but not intifyg as gay or bisexual scribed themselv as “kky, ” “normal, ” or “jt a guy. Siar fdgs were found throughout a seri of terviews wh non-gay intified MSM prepared for the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn 2004. In tally, the men terviewed reported that if sexual activy between men was anonymo, experimental, ocsnal, or if substance e was volved, the act was not “gay.