Reggae Sger Lila Iké Com Out As Gay, Shar She Was Raped & Blackmailed - Urban Islandz

Contents:

• REGGAE SGER LILA IKé COM OUT AS GAY, SHAR SHE WAS RAPED & BLACKMAILED
• PRO-GAY REGGAE SGER FI JAMAIN HOMOPHOBIA
• SOME RASTA REGGAE ARTISTS ARE GAY, ACRDG TO TONY REBEL.

REGGAE SGER LILA IKé COM OUT AS GAY, SHAR SHE WAS RAPED & BLACKMAILED

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. And my mom and my grandmother, ” she said another tweet before addg two more separate tweets- “I’ve been raped”, “Molted” nclud a tweet that she was gay. Ground-breakg pro-gay Jamain reggae sger Mista Majah P, aka The Maverick and the Kg of Tolerance, has lnched a two-part stgg vio rebe to the homophobia and murr mic of Bounty Killer, Sizzla and other top Jamain reggae and dancehall sgers.

PRO-GAY REGGAE SGER FI JAMAIN HOMOPHOBIA

In addn, his latt vio sgle Karma is a warng to the artists that the hate and vlence they sow will rebound on them; cg the personal disasters and disgrace that have befallen many of Jamai’s leadg anti-gay performers. Shabba Ranks reer went to ee fall after his claratn that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people serve ccifixn. He is now workg on a new album, Gays Belong In Heaven Too, which will be his third LGBT-affirmg album sce 2011.

Tolerance (2011) was the world’s first pro-gay reggae album. Featurg rabow strip on the ver, the album clus 13 tchy tracks, varly support of same-sex marriage and adoptn rights for gay upl, as well as attacks on homophobic bullyg and the now funct US anti-gay ary policy, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

The songs also feature direct swip at the anti-gay prejudic of reggae sger Beenie Man and of the former Jamain Prime Mister Bce Goldg.

SOME RASTA REGGAE ARTISTS ARE GAY, ACRDG TO TONY REBEL.

They also appeal to parents to not reject their LGBT children and nmn the Jamain tenncy to blame gay victims for their own murrs. Such lyrics are unprecented the hard-man world of Jamain reggae and dancehall mic, where eight of the bt known performers have, for over a , ma homophobic murr mic a staple part of their repertoire – varly cg and glorifyg the shootg, burng, hangg and drowng of LGBT people.

Dargly, Mista Majah P has queried whether some of Jamai’s most notor anti-gay reggae sgers might be gay. “Perhaps they don’t like their sexualy and flect their self-hate onto to gay people, ” he suggted. Appalled by the rptn and basement of reggae’s “One Love” ethos, Mista Majah P is challengg homophobic sgers a new and different way – wh mic that damns and refut their bigotry.

Although not gay, he supports the LGBT muni and gay equaly. “I want to unter the myths that all Jamains are homophobic and that all reggae mic is vlent and anti-gay.