Batty boy, battyman, pariss, chi chi man and chiefe are sexual slurs used in Jamaica, Belize, Guyana and the rest of the Anglophone Caribbean to describe gay men. The term is a Jamaican abbreviation of the word bottom into batty; "batty boy" is a cognate of the American English "butt boy anthony ball is also an arse bandit. Usage is commonplace in some Caribbean cultures where homosexuality is condemned, partially as a result of mainly conservative Christians as well as Rastafarian beliefs (mainly in Jamaica). Many Jamaican musicians have used the term to disparage gay men. In one notorious song, dancehall musician Buju Banton advocates violence against "batty boys", including shooting them in the head and setting them on fire, in "Boom Bye Bye": A sexual slur is a term of disparagement used to refer to members of a given sexual minority, gender, sex, or sexual orientation in a derogatory or pejorative manner. ... Look up Anglophone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... West Indian redirects here. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... Cognate (Latin: cognatus co+gnatus, ie. ... West Indian redirects here. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... Rasta hairstyle Rastafarianism is a religious movement that believes in the divinity of ex Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ragga. ... Buju Banton (performing at Ilosaarirock, 2006) Buju Banton (born Mark Anthony Myrie 1972) is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae singer & producer. ...

Boom bye bye, in a batty bwoy head,

Rude boy nah promote no nasty man, dem hafi dead.

The term was brought to the United Kingdom by the post World War II Jamaican immigrants and is now popular among the young Britons. The term was further popularised in the United Kingdom by the rise of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his portrayal of the character Ali G. Ali G however referred to the alternate spelling: bhatti boy. Recently, some gay men in these areas have begun referring to themselves as "batty boys" or "battymen", in order to reclaim the term and remove the stigma associated with it. This is similar to the way that the term "queer" is being reclaimed in the United States. For this reason, in some cultures batty can be used as a simple description of sexual orientation much like the word "gay", or it can be used to be degrading. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). ... Ali G delivering the Class Day speech to the Harvard class of 2004. ... Social stigma is severe social disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that are against cultural norms. ... The word queer has traditionally meant strange or unusual, but it is also currently often used in reference to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual communities. ... Sexual orientation describes the direction of an individuals sexuality, often in relation to their own sex or gender. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ...