Vladimir Putin must be praying that Lukashenko survives Jamaican singers known for their anti-homosexual lyrics, most infamously Buju Banton and Beenie Man (‘I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays’), have been refused entry by the British Home Office. In the beginning was Adam and Eve, say Jamaicans, not Adam and Steve.įew can agree on the source of the homophobia, but Jamaican evangelical church groups have not helped: Pentecostalists and other holy-rollers have advocated burning homosexuals. Batty bwoys (‘bum boys’) are in danger of being stoned, cutlassed or shot. A white man seen on his own in Jamaica is often assumed to be in search of gay sex. Similar laws exist elsewhere in the Anglophone Caribbean, yet Jamaica is outwardly the most homophobic of the West Indian islands. Jamaica’s anti-sodomy laws, deriving from the English Act of 1861, carry a ten-year jail sentence for ‘the abominable crime’. Fear and loathing of homosexuals has a long history in the West Indies. In 1998, the Jamaican singer Bounty Killer released a single, ‘Can’t Believe Mi Eyes’, which expressed incredulity that men should wear tight trousers, because tight trousers are an effeminate display of gayness.
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