Reggae and dancehall star Buju Banton returns to Jamaica after serving seven years in a US prison on drug charges. He’s getting a hero’s welcome. But Buju Banton is known for his 1993 anti-gay song Boom Bye Bye. Staceyanne Chin, a LGBT activist and poet from Jamaica, says that Banton’s legacy is a complicated one.
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