In 2009 LGBT people dealt with a tour by intensely homophobic Jamaican reggae dancehall performer Buju Banton, who is most notorious for a song released in 1992 that calls for LGBT people to be shot in the head, shot with an Uzi, have acid thrown on them and to be burned like a tire.
Although the tune, “Boom Bye Bye,” was written more than 20 years ago, Buju Banton never backed away from the Leviticus 20:13 message of the song. He seems to have stopped performing the song around 2004, but continues to rant against LGBT from the stage and to perform other anti LGBT routines.
Starting February 15, 2010 at the”Tribute to the Reggae Legends” festival at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego and continuing through the “Caribbean Festival 2010″ at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami on February 27, 2010, intensely homophobic reggae dancehall performer Capleton is on a tour of the U.S.
Capleton has already had a performance scheduled for February 19, 2010 in Arcata, California canceled. 
Mitch Trachtenberg, who runs the Humboldt Against Hate Blog wrote:
“[Capleton] is one of the musicians targeted by the international “Stop Murder Music” campaign for lyrics urging physical violence against gay people.
“Examples of Capleton lyrics include “All boogamen (gays) and sodemites (can refer to gays and lesbians) fi get killed” and “Yow, string dem up and hang dem up alive.” He has continued to sing lyrics encouraging physical violence since promising not to and, I believe, signing the Reggae Compassionate Act. In 2008, his concert in Basel, Switzerland was cancelled as a result of widespread outrage.
Capleton did sign the Reggae Compassionate Act form, promising not to promote hatred and violence in 2007. He violated his agreement before the end of 2007.
To learn more about Capleton and his songs, see the Dancehall Dossier at  http://tinyurl.com/2xax3b      
 

Here are the remaining performances scheduled for Capleton's February 2010 tour:
02/15/10  “Tribute to the Reggae Legends” festival at San Diego Sporta Arena in San Diego, California
02/17/10  Downtown Brewing Company, San Luis Obispo, California
 

02/18/10  Tahoe Biltmore, Crystal Bay, Nevada
 
02/20/10  “Ragga Muffins Festival,” Fox Theater, Oakland, California
 
02/21/10  “Ragga Muffins Festival,” Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California 
 
02/27/10  “Caribbean Festival 2010,” at Bayfront Park, Miami, Florida 
 
We need to have people respectfully contact the venues about this performer.

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