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...states, where his 9/11 fame - which has made him the front-runner in all the national polls - would give him an edge over the rest of the field, and where more diverse groups of voters might forgive his liberal stance on social issues like abortion and gay rights...
...latest in a series of high-profile artists, including Beenie Man and Sizzla, to sign the declaration after worldwide protests from gay rights groups resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of concerts and sponsorship deals, costing the artists an estimated US$5 million. The news about Banton was welcomed by gay rights groups in Jamaica, where attacks on gay people are common and sodomy laws left over from Britain's colonial-era still prohibit gay...
...Since "Boom Bye Bye" was released in the early 1990s there has been a corresponding rise in homophobic violence in the Caribbean, although it's difficult to tell which came first - the music or the violence. According to Jamaican gay rights group J-Flag - which refuses to give out its address in the capital, Kingston, "due to the potential for violent retributions" - the rise in homophobic violence culminated in reports of crowds lynching suspected homosexuals after concerts...
...positive step forward to get four of the top reggae artist to condemn anti-gay violence," says Tatchell, whose group was initially derided as racist when they began picketing reggae concerts in the U.K. and abroad. "We are not against reggae or dancehall - the genre is great - but we object to the small number of artists using music to incite violence...
...Tatchell though, the struggle is not over. Stop Murder Music have their sights on four other big reggae acts who have a big international audience and are still considered to be homophobic: Elephant Man, TOK, Vybz Kartel and Bounty Killa. "The struggle for lesbian and gay human rights," he says, "is a universal...