Gay activists protest upcoming Buju Banton performance at Miami’s James L. Knight Center

Several gay-rights groups are protesting a Halloween-night concert at a city of Miami-owned hall by Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, whose hit song Boom Bye Bye advocates shooting gays in the head and setting them on fire.

“”The message is that gay people’s lives are cheap, and that harming gay people is OK,” said Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, a statewide gay-rights group calling for the concert to be canceled. “Any time a message of violence and hatred against any group is put out there, it has to be challenged.”

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