Capleton in Spain November 2008 (Public Domain – Creative Commons)   This is intensely homophobic Jamaican Rastafarian dancehall performer Capleton’s touring schedule for May and June 2013 This schedule is subject to additions and other changes.   Capleton Schedule May and June 2013   City Country/State Venue Date Creil  France  La Grange A Musique          05/07/2013 Stuttgart  Germany  Universum      05/08/2013 Plan-les-Ouates  Switzerland  Espace Velodrome        05/10/2013      Gullegem  Belgium  Kokopelli Festival     05/11/2013 Dortmund  Germany  Ruhr Reggae Summer – Dortmund 2013      05/12/2013 Vienna  Austria  Reigen            05/13/2013 Innsbruck  Austria  Treibhaus    05/14/2013 Amsterdam  Netherlands  Paradiso    05/15/2013 Rotterdam  Netherlands  Heidegger    05/16/2013 Reims  France  Le Kabaret     05/17/2013 Colmar  France  Parc Des [...]

Capleton in Spain November 2008  (Public Domain – Creative Commons) Click Here For Capleton’s Touring Schedule for May and June 2013 Capleton is in Europe in May Capleton Canceled for Red Fox Tavern in Eureka, California 10/11/12 Great Cartoon From The Journal in Humboldt County Photo from anti Capleton protest at Ocean Grove Lodge in Trinidad, Calif 10/11/12   If Capleton [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ-17R5DCoI   EqualityJA has posted 8 videos on YouTube in which LGBT Jamaicans and non LGBT supporters of equal rights for LGBT people in Jamaica speak out. This is a very courageous and dangerous thing to do because they are literally risking their lives . If two adult men have consensual sex in Jamaica, that is a crime [...]

(All the photos are public domain)   Homophobic Jamaican dancehall performer Beenie Man is scheduled to appear at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 24th, 2013. The lesbian group Indigo Girls is scheduled to perform the next month, on February 26th, 2013. Then on March 3, 2013, the LGBT friendly group Tenacious D, which [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUZlzd37sI Please watch this video “Buju Banton – Boom Bye Bye.” First understand the lyrics and then “dislike” the YouTube video if you feel like it!   Buju Banton’s Very Controversial, Homophobic song “Boom Bye Bye” Jamaican dancehall performer Mark Myrie is known worldwide as “Buju Banton.” Sometime in August 2012, Buju Banton’s song “Boom Bye Bye” passed [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJtjgn2ypQ   Jamaican dancehall artiste Beenie Man has had a long career of writing and performing songs that call for LGBT people to be killed. It looks like his career as a homophobe goes back to 1994 and the song “Bomb and Dynamite.” Along with a number of Jamaican dancehall performers, Beenie Man’s visa to [...]

Mavado at Reggae Sumfest 2008 Photo by Psycler – Creative Commons Jamaican dancehall performer Mavado doesn’t get as much attention as a “kill LGBT” performer as other artistes such as Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Elephant Man, Capleton, and Sizzla. (We also list I Wayne, an up-and-coming dancehall artiste, as a “kill LGBT” performer.) Mavado is [...]

    Sizzla Kolonji 2005  Photo: Caspiax  Public Domain (Creative Commons)   Sizzla Kalonji has nothing scheduled for the next few months. Check back for Sizzla schedule updates. Sizzla Kalonji, real name Miguel Collins, is another very controversial Jamaican dancehall music artiste who has a long history of performing songs that call for LGBT people to be [...]

  “Gays are killed in Jamaica!” To illustrate how conditions really are for LGBT people in Jamaica, I have urged people to watch a YouTube video that features the photo above. While looking at the above photo, you listen to a very homophobic, “kill LGBT,” song. Awhile ago, the video was removed from YouTube. You can now [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6Xt2qkwDY I strongly recommend that everybody watch this YouTube video. It is about a compilation CD, “Smashing Rainbows: Rock Against Homosexuality,” that has been available since 2007 on the internet from a little known, neo-Nazi label called Fetch The Rope Records The shocking thing is that now, today, you can order this CD on Amazon.com UPDATE! As of [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvBOeWTdgxs   In a hard-hitting talk at the May 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum, Thomas Glave talks about the continuing persecution that LGBT people face in Jamaica. Thomas Glave is a Jamaican-American writer and one of the founders of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG). Glave is a Fulbright scholar and recipient of the O. [...]

At the “Reggae Rhythm and Blues Festival” September 4th, 2011 in Queens, New York City, U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY) welcomed homophobic, “kill LGBT” Jamaican performer Beenie Man (real name: “Anthony Moses Davis”) to the U.S. Representative Clarke is of Jamaican ancestry and represents New York’s 11th congressional district, which includes much of central Brooklyn, [...]