I don’t know about you, but we sure as hell didn’t see this coming, but we are so here for it. The Canadian Jamaican Dancehall artist Lexxicon dropped the mic with this unapologetic, single “Batty Man Party.” Watch it below. After we watched it, twice we passed on the link…
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Founder of pioneering Halo popup bar and party series launches HaloXP.
Ingrid Andrena Founder of Halo, the Jamaican queer party series and weekend popup bar returns to the scene expanded with HaloXP, a curated experiences & travel concierge service for the open minded and free-spirited. Serving grown and sexy queer and open-minded folks, wellness seekers, adventurists and cultural explorers. “We are…
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Is this Jamaica’s first Queer Positive Reggae Music Video? It’s beautiful and brave.
Music Review: When a New York-based friend of mine sent me the link to this Mark Clennon video I was like what is this ?! The song’s called Kingston and I was expecting the typical scruffy dancehall stuff. Then I watched it and wow. It was surprising, refreshing, and needed….
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The Making of Winston- The Queer Film Short by Jamaican Director Tanya Taylor
How did you Make This Thing? is a video interview series by Ingrid Riley, Founder of Rebel Grrl Media, OutCaribe’s parent company. The show interviews Caribbean Content Creators about why and how they do what they do. In this first episode, Ingrid speaks to Tanya Taylor- Jamaican Writer, Producer Director…
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Book of Cinz celebrates Caribbean LGBTQ Authors for Pride Month
It was an Instagram post, where Cindy Allman, creator of brand Book of Cinz- A Caribbean Girl, Reading The World on the mission To encourage people to #ReadCaribbean – went Team Rainbow for Pride Month. She said “I wanted to highlight some of my Caribbean books that are written by…
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A formerly anti-gay reggae star returns to Jamaica. This lesbian poet calls it ‘complicated.’
Reggae star Buju Banton returned to his native Jamaica in early December after serving seven years in a US prison on drug charges. Banton got a hero’s welcome, despite his infamous, 1993 anti-gay song “Boom Bye Bye,” which called for the murder of gay people. “Boom Bye Bye” was one of Banton’s…
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Book Review: Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a Miracle, a Gift says TOR
Y’all, Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a miracle. It’s a gift from Anansi himself. This book. This book. THIS BOOK. Dead. I’m dead. I have died. It is so good it killed me. Murdered by my own ARC. Please bury me in my To Read pile. The basic story is this: a…
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Jerrie Johnson, star of the Harlem TV show, gets engaged in Jamaica
At a private villa in Montego Bay, Jamaica Jerrie Johnson who plays the character Tye Reynolds on the American comedy television series recently announced her engagement on Instagram to Creative Producer Dria Brown. Through stunning photos on her Instagram, Jerrie showed how she popped the question to her Lady love,…
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Yes to that “Gimme” dance song by Sam Smith, Jessie Reyez, and Koffee.
Music Review- If you’re queer and have been looking for a Spring Break /Summer song for your party and club, Sam Smith, Jessie Reyez, and Koffee just dropped the sexy dance single “Gimme”. It’s an unexpected mashup of voices and energy and it works. It has Jamaican Reggae Star Koffee…
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Jamaican LGBTQ Film that centers Politics, Love, and Power themes, Debuts at Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival.
Newly-married Aria Sawyer is a charismatic and attractive young woman who is after one thing – a seat in Parliament – and she gets it. However, the sweet taste of victory quickly grows sour when her power-hungry husband, Dimitri, finds out about her on-and-off affair with Janelle Rose, a spunky…
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Globally-Acclaimed Jamaican author Nicole Dennis-Benn speaks to Roxane Gay for her paperback launch of PATSY
It’s Pride month globally and in the United States, it’s also Caribean-American Heritage month. What a perfect time to pair those two events by having an LGBTQ Caribbean Pride-themed podcast where globally-Acclaimed Jamaican author Nicole Dennis-Benn speaks about her best selling fiction book Patsy with Roxane Gay. Part of our…
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Jamaica’s brave LGBTQ+ scene is nudging dancehall in a new direction
Over the years, a number of dancehall artists have attracted negative attention for homophobic lyrics. Jamaica Pride gathers a community who love the genre’s celebratory aspects. When rising dancehall star Shenseea dropped the visuals for her summerbop Blessed earlier this year, it had all the ingredients of a classic music video set in…
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Dear Black Love Video, is Best Thing We’ve Seen All Damn Year!
With “Dear, Black Love” #r29unbothered is celebrating relationships through the lens of Blackness and intersectionality. On this episode, we talk to Crystal and her partner Kiesh about why nothing comes close to loving a Black woman. 
Are you in a relationship? Whether your love is monogamous, polyamorous, interracial, or…
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Jamaican Writers Marlon James and Kei Miller question the homoeroticism of Buju Banton’s controversial Boom Bye Bye song.
We got wind of a very timely and provocative discussion on Facebook, started by award-winning Poet and Professor Kei Miller with Man Booker Prize Author Marlon James chiming in for the debate. All this the day after controversial Reggae Start Buju Banton was released from an American prison for drug…
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The Jamaican LGBT Movement celebrates 20 years this year!
Check out this cool timeline of some key achievements between 1978 when Gay Freedom Movement was formed to 2015 when Maurice Tomlinson filed a petition to overturn “the buggery law.” We salute all the women and men who worked tirelessly over the years to make all of this possible. Learn…