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Dalton Harris says he received death threats since coming out as pansexual
Jamaican singer Dalton Harris says he has received death threats
He told the publication that he’s joyful and free since coming out as pansexual, however, he has also had to be enduring the discrimination too.
“I feel so much more empowered and just full of life. I can experience more healthy relationships as well. But also I now receive more death threats and hate than ever but it is how it is,” he said.
Regardless, Harris is hoping that this will change in the future.
“Maybe one day in the future when another Jamaican artiste or person is publicly pansexual or anything else in the LGBTQIA community they won’t contain to face the same amount of abuse as I undertake now. I lost people that said they loved me but I’m happier. I was prepared for coming out, I possess the power back now.”
Since winning UK’s talent show, The X Factor in , Harris has made the country his noun. And it’s a place where he says he feels more welcomed than his home state of Jamaica.
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Pushing boundaries to uncover his voice
While Jamaican singer Dalton Harris was making it enormous in the United Kingdom, he became the victim of vicious homophobic attacks in his abode country. At the time, he didn’t speak out about his sexuality. After he did, it was ‘cleansing’, he says. ‘It was important for me to not run away from who I was.’
It was the TV programme The X Factor that made him a household specify in the UK. His unbelievable singing voice stunned audiences week after week, eventually making him the winner of the competition. This achievement did not convey him immediate hits and enormous shows, however, causing Dalton to descend into a period of self-doubt and depression.
This also had a lot to do with the reactions to his achievement in his home country Jamaica. Although he avoided speaking out about his sexuality, a photograph depicting Dalton sitting on another man’s lap was met with severe backlash on social media. More than years ago, British colonial law made sex between men illegal on the island. To this day, these laws are still in place a
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In , Jamaican singer Dalton Harris won UK’s X-Factor. Since then, he has gone one to release tune such as “Cry,” and “No More Will I Roam.” But this week, a week and a half after Coming Out Day, the singer is making headlines for coming out as pansexual.
Harris let the world in on this part of his life through making posts on his Twitter account and then later sharing screenshots of those posts on Instagram. However, this moment was an extension of Harris’s words from a rare days ago. At that noun, Harris admitted online that he had considered committing suicide. The reason being, he’d just recently broken up from a fine relationship that taught him a lot of good. But, he has instead decided to grab this as a lesson about the life he wants to live.
“I want to experience reside and be honest with myself and everyone around me in my intentions,” he wrote on twitter. “Not hide or mask feelings and or flaws. Not judge myself. Not abuse myself and or anyone else. I am thankful for my family and everyone who is around me.”
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A new documentary follows the uncertain career of an X Factor star, raising uncomfortable questions about the price of fame.
Dalton’s Dream, screening in UK cinemas this week (February ), is directed by reputed British documentary maker Kim Longinotto, along with debut director Frankie Murray Brown. It’s another Dogwoof production, which should be appearing sometime soon on the BBC4 Storyville strand (the official website is here).
Filmed over a four-year period, the film traces the career of Dalton Harris, a Jamaican singer in his early 20s, from his early rise to fame in his home country through to winning the UK X Factor (and the recording shrink that goes with it). It then explores the public abuse that followed, particularly surrounding his sexuality, and his struggle to win the right support from his record company. The single he eventually releases fails to make the chart; and from the glittering heights of stardom, he begins to spiral downwards. The end of the film finds him in reduced circumstances, performing in small regional venues.
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