Anti-Gay Singer Plays Olympic Concert

A British gay rights group at the forefront of the fight against Jamaican singers whose music promotes anti-gay violence is reeling over a weekend Olympic concert in Athens featuring reggae star Buju Banton. The concert, put on by the Jamaican Olympic team and sponsored by sportswear company Puma, was open to all athletes at the games. It was held at outside the Olympic Village, at a chic beach club in the trendy coastal neighborhood of Glyfada, but it is understood that Olympics organizers approved the concert and the location. Banton’s number one hit ‘Boom Bye Bye’ urges listeners to shoot gay men in the head, pour acid over them and burn them alive. "The decision of the International Olympic Committee to give a platform to a murder-music singer like Buju Banton contradicts the whole spirit of the Olympics – which is supposed to be about peace and brotherhood,” fumed Brett Lock of the gay rights group, Outrage. “The Olympics would never dare host a singer who advocated the gassing of Jews or the lynching of black people," said Outrage leader Peter Tatchell in a prepared statement. "Buju Banton’s murderous incitements to shoot and burn gays are the moral equivalent of neo-Nazi calls for the killing of Jewish and black people."