Tell Best Buy: Stop Selling Music That Promotes Anti-Gay Violence

Tell Best Buy: Stop Selling Music That Promotes Anti-Gay Violence

The Issue

Best Buy has a 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, and is a company with a stated commitment to diversity and equal rights. Yet, if you search the music shelves of Best Buy or surf their online store, you'll find some of the worst anti-gay music around.

Among the songs and albums available from Best Buy are music from Capleton, Buju Banton, Beenie Man, and Bounty Killer -- four artists who all sing or have sung about killing gay people.

Among Beenie Man's more infamous lines: "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays."

Capleton: "All queers and sodomites should be killed."

Bounty Killer: "Wipe out the fa*got with a pure laser beam."

Buju Banton: "Rude boys don't promote no queer man, they'll have to die, send for the automatic gun, the Uzi instead, shoot them."

Yet all of this music is available via Best Buy, either in their stores or thru their online shop. Tell Best Buy that they shouldn't be in the business of promoting music that calls for gay people to be burned, murdered, tortured or executed.

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The Issue

Best Buy has a 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, and is a company with a stated commitment to diversity and equal rights. Yet, if you search the music shelves of Best Buy or surf their online store, you'll find some of the worst anti-gay music around.

Among the songs and albums available from Best Buy are music from Capleton, Buju Banton, Beenie Man, and Bounty Killer -- four artists who all sing or have sung about killing gay people.

Among Beenie Man's more infamous lines: "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays."

Capleton: "All queers and sodomites should be killed."

Bounty Killer: "Wipe out the fa*got with a pure laser beam."

Buju Banton: "Rude boys don't promote no queer man, they'll have to die, send for the automatic gun, the Uzi instead, shoot them."

Yet all of this music is available via Best Buy, either in their stores or thru their online shop. Tell Best Buy that they shouldn't be in the business of promoting music that calls for gay people to be burned, murdered, tortured or executed.

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The Decision Makers

Best Buy Public Relations Department
Best Buy Public Relations Department
Paula Prahl
Paula Prahl
Senior Vice President – Communications, Public Affairs and Corporate Responsibility

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