Anti gay songs

Because music is not organized or classified by the sexuality of its creators, it is tough to construct a search or a tool for discovery protests songs by LGBTQIA+ artists. It is much easier to find books and articles about either queer harmony OR protest songs, than it is to find materials specifically about protests songs by lgbtq+ creators. While the library catalog and many databases look for only the titles, summaries, and other basic information about a source, some tools search the entire text, so they can be more useful for finding, for example, mentions of homosexual artists inside a book about demonstration music, or mentions of protest harmony within works about queer artists. 

Google Scholar is a beneficial tool for searching broadly and across full texts. While it isn't as comprehensive or selective as a database or catalog, it can be kind for these kinds of inquiries.

Harmonies of hate promote violence against gays to millions in the United States and elsewhere

Jamaican dancehall star Buju Banton was considered a musical prodigy in 1988 when, at age 15, he recorded what remains one of his best-known tracks, “Boom Bye Bye.” Even in the difficult-to-decipher Jamaican slang known as patois, its chorus evokes violence and dread: Boom bye bye / inna batty bwoy head / Rude bwoy no promote no offensive man / dem haffi dead. (“Boom [the sound of a gunshot], bye-bye, in a f—–’s head / the tough young guys don’t accept f—; they have to die.”)

For those whose familiarity with Jamaican music begins and ends with Bob Marley, “murder music” — and its stubborn worldwide popularity — will show up as a solemn shock.

Gay and female homosexual activists in Jamaica and throughout the Western world acquire spent years trying to slow the spread of murder music. The going is tough: Banton, a four-time Grammy nominee who has collaborated with well-known Haitian singer Wyclef Jean and the punk band Rancid, is but first among equals in a genre deeply rooted in Jamaican culture, whose stars i