Abstract
This essay critically investigates the Stop Murder Music (SMM) campaign in Canada, which aims to censor explicitly homophobic Jamaican dancehall music and artists. It draws on concepts such as homonationalism, gay imperialism and homotransnationalism to problematize and resituate the campaign as a mainstream Canadian LGBTQ liberationist discourse. A discourse analysis of related newspaper articles, weblog discussions and campaign paraphernalia highlights the sociohistorical construction of the ‘Jamaicanization’ (i.e. racialization) of homophobia in the Canadian and western contexts. The analysis also complicates understandings of queer diasporic/transnational activism by highlighting how constituencies within the margins of the Canadian LGBTQ community simultaneously refuse/unsettle and enact/bolster Canadian homonationalist projects through the SMM campaign. The author contemplates whether Canadian-based queer diasporic activism operates as a vehicle for inclusion and assimilation into the LGBTQ mainstream or whether transnational politics might productively queer the limits of Canadian (homo)nationalism.
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