Why do so many Jamains hate gay people? | Keon Wt | The Guardian

Contents:

• REGGAE SGER LILA IKé COM OUT AS GAY, SHAR SHE WAS RAPED & BLACKMAILED
• PRO-GAY REGGAE SGER FI JAMAIN HOMOPHOBIA
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• WHY DO SO MANY JAMAINS HATE GAY PEOPLE?
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

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

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” Some fans were even fond of the ia, wh one even pg for the chance to marry Koffee if she is gay. “Now that koffee is puttg on for JA is safe for me to be full on gay there or nah, ” another fan asked.

“If she’s gay so what? Me j love the offergs the vio— shorday (@ji_er684) July 17, 2020I only speculate about Koffee’s sexualy bee would be great if Jamains jt admted they gay af— Prisons & Police Are Obsolete (@MAD_l) July 18, 2020People still a wonr if Koffee gay?? Chile…— Flaws & Ss (@yxngkura) July 17, 2020I’m pretty sure Koffee is gay… but then aga there are plenty straight women that drs like men… oh well— ME THAT’s WHO (@Fh_Boodah) July 18, 2020Now that koffee is puttg on for JA is safe for me to be full on gay there or nah — sunflwrpwr (@sunflwrpwrs) July 17, 2020.

PRO-GAY REGGAE SGER FI JAMAIN HOMOPHOBIA

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. In 2006, Time Magaze named Jamai ​“the most homophobic place on Earth.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

” As a genre, dancehall has produced many murroly homophobic lyrics. For Nelson, there’s nothg herently homophobic about Jamain mic. ​“To say we are the most homophobic place is jt simply not te… ’s not the vlent mob g to chop somebody up like you might picture before.

Perhaps the cle homophobia n be attributed to the rise of social media and a more globalised world that allows people on the island to see, and be aware of, other liftyl.

The Stop Murr Mic Campaign – which prsur Jamain micians to absta om allegedly glorifyg homophobic vlence (and which J‑Flag -n) – targeted Banton alongsi several other artists.

WHY DO SO MANY JAMAINS HATE GAY PEOPLE?

Banton signed a ntract wh Stop Murr Mic Campaign 2007, agreeg to no longer make homophobic statements.

Other dancehall artists have bee utly aware of how homophobic material might harm their prospects as an ternatnal tourg act. Hope has studied dancehall for over 20 years, and says the homophobia is rooted the island’s history of lonialism and slavery. Pledgg to vlently attack gays was jt one of the trends the ways Jamain artists asserted their masculy, which was then reflected their mic.

Hope has whnsed homophobic lyrics dancehall soften over the past ten years. ​“It’s gog to take a big dancehall or reggae artist g out as gay to change that and who knows when that will happen.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

In an terview wh the BBC 2008, then Prime Mister Bce Goldg said, ​“Homosexuals will fd no solace any bet formed by me. ” Ten years later, Jamai’s current prime mister Andrew Holns publicly weled gays to his bet.