BROCKHAMPTON's "Gay" Capsule Reprents and Empowers the LGBTQIA+ Communy: Enlistg activists om GLAAD’s Youth Engagement Program for s Kev Abstract-directed and Ashlan Grey-shot lookbook.
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- A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
- BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
A Hip-Hop Group Wh An Openly Gay Member Has The #1 Album * gay brockhampton members *
How many members of Brockhampton are actually gay?
We all know Kev is for sure, but how many members, total, are actually gay? Kev Abstract was behd a microphone a rerdg stud the first time he ever said out loud that he was gay.
“Can't tell my mother I'm gay / The harst part of my day is wishg I was fuckg straight / Life uld be so fuckg easy, man, ” he sgs on the track. ” Abstract formed what would eventually bee BROCKHAMPTON at 13 years old, spawng an rap group and art llective unlike anythg precedg CreightonIn a world where you n unt the number of Black, gay rappers on one hand, Abstract stepped—purposefully or not—to the sho of role mol when he began makg mic. Growg up a Mormon hoehold a suburb north of Hoton (then Corp Christi, then Geia for a while), Abstract didn’t have a lot of Black or gay peers or mentors to look to.
BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
Openly gay rappers are few and far between, pecially those who are as transparent as Brockhampton's Kev Abstract. * gay brockhampton members *
“Why you always rap about beg gay?
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Brockhampton's Kev Abstract discs beg openly gay the rap world wh Rad 1's Annie Mac. * gay brockhampton members *
“‘Cse not enough n***** rap and be gay!
“I told my mom I was gay, why the fuck she a't listen?
The lyric speaks to his “Papercut” rerdg ssn, before those clost to him knew he was gay. It’s a historic acplishment for a Rap group wh an openly gay member. Now That Gay Marriage Is Legal Every State, Will Hip-Hop End Its Homophobia?
* gay brockhampton members *
“My goal is jt to normalize , ” he says of rappg about beg gay. In orr to make a change, I have to exist a tradnally homophobic space such as Hip-Hop. Though Hip-Hop is not a plete stranger to varyg gre of sexual orientatn, Kev is certaly the most visible and mercially succsful gay rapper the culture has seen.