Tag Archives: Jamaica

Sexual Or Violent Lyrics Banned From Jamaica’s Airwaves

Curious development down in Jamaica: Jamaican regulators say they are forbidding all explicit references to sex and violence over the airwaves. The new rules from the island’s broadcast commission ban any song or music video that depicts sexual acts or glorifies gun violence, murder, rape or arson. The Saturday announcement follows a Feb. 6 ban that specifically targeted dancehall tunes …

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Beat The Gay Out Of Your Kid

From the Ask The Doc column in the Jamaica Gleaner: Q: My 10-year-old son is acting like a girl. I beat him almost every day for this. People tell me he is going to be gay and that it doesn’t matter how I beat him since the female hormones will be there because the Lord made him that way. I …

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HomoQuotable – Wayne Besen

“Clearly, the answer to Jamaica’s love affair with lynching is an aggressive campaign designed to put the clamp on tourism – particularly the cruise industry. The goal should be to strangle Jamaica’s economy and force the island to change or suffer severe consequences. With tourism Jamaica’s second largest source of revenue, such a campaign could have a powerful impact that …

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Jamaica: Most Homophobic Place On Earth

More anti-gay violence in Jamaica: MANDEVILLE, Jamaica — One night last month, Andre and some friends were finishing dinner when a mob showed up at the front gate. Yelling anti-gay slurs and waving machetes, sticks and knives, 15 to 20 men kicked in the front door of the home he and his friends had rented and set upon them. Inspector …

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Kill Batty Man

Google is hosting a Jamaica-based blog, Kill Batty Man, that advocates the murder of all gay people, naming the names of those to be killed. The top post on Kill Batty Man today is a gleeful photo essay of last week’s attack by a violent Kingston mob on three men presumed to be gay. Other posts rail against the incursion …

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