A number of celebrity musicians have taken bold public stands against bigotry in recent days by canceling shows in conservatives states, such as North Carolina and Mississippi, whose legislatures recently passed laws that supporters view as “religious liberty” measures, but which critics have denounced for promoting “anti-LGBT” discrimination.
Bigotry of any kind should not be tolerated, which is why you should immediately boycott these celebs with ties to repressive anti-gay regimes.
Jennifer Lopez
The former star has made millions performing in private concerts in countries such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan—where LGBT rights aren’t exactly a top priority.
Enrique Iglesias
Iglesias recently performed—with J-Lo and Sting (see below)—at the wedding of a Russia oil tycoon’s son in Moscow. “LGBT-friendly” would be a poor way to describe Russia.
Sting
Sting doesn’t even care. He thinks cultural boycotts are “pointless gestures,” and has made millions performing for dubious figures such as the president of Uzbekistan.
Bryan Adams
Adams, who is bravely boycotting Mississippi on moral grounds, played a show in Egypt just last month, and complained when customs officials scribbled on his guitar. Egyptian authorities recently arrested two gay men for “distributing pornographic material” after a video of their wedding surfaced online.
Adam Levine
Levine’s overachieving pop quintet, Maroon 5, has appeared several times at the Festival Mawazine in Rabat, Morocco, where two gay men were arrested in 2015 for standing “too close to each other.”
Kanye West
Yeezy pocketed a cool $3 million to perform at the 2013 wedding of the grandson of Kazakhstan’s strongman dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The country has an abysmal human rights record, especially when it comes to LGBT rights.
Beyoncé
Queen Bey was paid $1 million in 2009 to perform a private concert for Muammar Gaddafi’s son in St. Bart’s. She apologized after the event came to light thanks to WikiLeaks, but that’s not good enough. Boycott her now.
Nicki Minaj
Minaj ignored pleas from the Human Rights Foundation to cancel a private concert in Angola in December 2015. Minaj even posed for a photo with the daughter of repressive dictator José Eduardo dos Santos. Being gay in Angola is punishable by hard labor.
Justin Beiber
There’s nothing specifically anti-LGBT about the Beibs, but you should boycott him anyway because he’s a moron who appropriates other cultures with his white dreads.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary can’t sing, but she opposed gay marriage until 2013 and didn’t consider it a constitutional right until April 2015. She has also accepted millions of dollars from anti-gay regimes such as Morocco, Qatar and Saudi Arabia through her family foundation.
