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Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

— Diplo

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

— Jack Davenport

Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.

— Walshy Fire

I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.

— Jussie Smollett

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They've shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can't be homophobic in this line of work - I'm a pop star!

— Rihanna

Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

— Avicii

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

— Michael Franti

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

— George Michael

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

— Cameron Crowe

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

— OMI

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

— Sean Paul