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01-2.228-.616v.06a4.923 4.923 0 003.946 4.827 4.996 4.996 0 01-2.212.085 4.936 4.936 0 004.604 3.417 9.867 9.867 0 01-6.102 2.105c-.39 0-.779-.023-1.17-.067a13.995 13.995 0 007.557 2.209c9.053 0 13.998-7.496 13.998-13.985 0-.21 0-.42-.015-.63A9.935 9.935 0 0024 4.59z"/></svg> </a></div> </div> </div> <div class="max-w-8xl mx-to px-6 lg:px-8 grid grid-ls-1 md:grid-ls-[1,300px] gap-6"> <div class="l-span-1 md:l-span-to"> <div class="w-full"> </div> <article id="article_ntent" class="prose prose-primary prose-base dark:prose-vert md:prose-lg prose-headgs:font-semibold prt:prose-sm text-[#222222] marker:text-[#222222] dark:text-bunker-200 dark:marker:text-bunker-200 max-w-none mx-to lg:mx-36"> <p>Hip-hop has many fac, but today’s pop pageant, the “thug” image l. A hypermascule black male who glowers om si his baggy sportswear, the thug erects a protective (yet sctive) ont that says “Danger: Enter at your own risk.” Wh school and work seen as unrealistic power sourc, his pose translat to hard physil currency. And as rap mic ph s way to the mastream, black men flex harr for posns of strength. Meanwhile, women are tolerated as sex objects, and gay inty, the least wele face, remas an irrelevant, unwanted joke.</p><p>Hip-hop always has had a homophobic streak–homosexualy equals weakns, which one n’t afford a hostile, racist society. So why, as Guy Trebay reports <b>The Village Voice</b> (Feb. 8, 2000), is one of New York Cy’s largt gay dance clubs pumpg hs by thuggish rappers Juvenile and DMX, while a le of hard-posg gay black men forms outsi? More and more young gay men of lor are intifyg wh hip-hop’s roughneck ghetto imagery and rejectg the more tasteful, “privileged” ins of whe gay culture, Trebay not. Hip-hop’s bad-ass mask is valued over, say, hoe mic’s heartrendg, diva groove. As a black clubgoer tells Trebay, “There are all the myths about faggots beg soft and feme, like you’re lacy and wear chiffon. Straight-up homi, niggaz, and thugz n walk through projects and be gay. But you n’t walk through the project and be a faggot.”</p><p>By fg a “faggot” as soft or passive, and a “gay” man as tough or real, many gay black men flect the ‘faggot’-bag lyrics of rappers such as DMX or Snoop Doggy Dogg. “Faggot,” like “bch” for some women of lor, is seen as a nonspecific gibe tossed around by fay members. Rap lyrics have unniably advoted vlence agast gay people; the Goodie Mob once asserted, “P the hollow-pot tip / On this gay rights activist.” Yet for many fans, love of the mic and s diverse culture plit the threats. “Homo thugz,” though not ee to publicly display their affectn for other men, embrace hip-hop style. They value hip-hop’s rebelln agast whe mastream society more than whe gay culture’s perceived need for assiatn.</p><p>Trebay quot novelist Jam Earl Hardy explag the origs of the “homie-sexual” movement ’80s vogue balls, where “banjee boy” or “realns” tegori featured gay men strikg pos as, basilly, hip-hop tough guys. Realns was a cheeky asi, a spoof that Hardy refers to as the “same-genr-lovg man who don’t look, act, talk, or drs a way that says gay.” But wh mercial rap’s rtoonish machismo now celebrated big-budget vios and advertisg, Trebay reports that this year’s Ultra-Omni Ball, New York’s black gay/lbian “vogug” venue, was almost entirely nsumed by hard-re hip-hop posturg. Gay men (and lbians) parodied every aspect of the thug pose, even throwg up gang hand signs.</p><p>For a gay person to embody an inty that ni his or her existence mands some elaborate fse; evably disurag any public affirmatn of gay sexualy. But Matt Wobensmh, former edor of <i>Outpunk</i> fanze and founr of gay hip-hop rerd label Queerrps, tells Trebay that jugglg inti is jt everyday life for gay men and women of lor.</p><p>For stance, ’s often been claimed (notably <i>One Nut</i> magaze) that var hip-hop stars are, at the very least, bisexual. But when <b>Mixmag</b> (June 1998) suggted that gay hip-hoppers were beg more visible the dtry, cg Queen Pen’s lbian-themed song “Girliends,” Queen Pen herself bristled. Rapper/actrs Queen Latifah, who played a lbian character the film <i>Set It Off</i>, shi away om the subject a hip-hop ntext. There are still no proment “out” rappers. Jake Gsky <b>Mother Jon</b> (March 2000) doubts whether any rerd pany would sign a gay rapper, bee the dtry is so foced on sellg a male “myth of toughns” and heterosexualy.</p><p>At the unrground level, there have been cremental mblgs. <i>Outpunk</i>‘s fal issue (1997) offered a 14-page “Queers Hip-Hop” package, featurg terviews by Wobensmh wh both male and female artists. Annubis, a DJ/MC for Bay Area group Rabow Flava, told Wobensmh, “On the purist level, hip-hop is clive, but we’re not alg wh pure hip-hop yet. We should be there now, but we’re not.” Wobensmh, acrdg to <i>Mother Jon</i>, has sce abandoned his rerd label.</p><p>Trebay is unenthiastic about the “homo thugz” trend, ntendg that, ultimately, only glamoriz vic behavr heterosexuals and ph gay men of lor eper to the closet. As Rabow Flava’s Judge Mt says, may be a long time before most gay people are able to look at hip-hoppers as anythg other than “the kids who beat them up high school.”</p> </article> <div id="related_articl_panel" class="hidn"><div class="clear-both w-full lg:w-[300px] lg:float-left mr-6 mb-4 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-bunker-925/50 round-lg divi-y divi-gray-200 dark:divi-bunker-925 prt:hidn"><div class="flex flex-l mt-0 py-3 px-4 lg:leadg-loose"><span class="p-0 m-0 text-xl lg:text-[1.35rem] lg:leadg-[1.85rem] font-bold text-primary">Related Articl</span></div><div class="divi-y divi-gray-200 dark:divi-bunker-925"><a href=" class="block p-4 !no-unrle hover:bg-gray-100 dark:hover:bg-bunker-925/75 group last:round-bl-lg last:round-br-lg"> <div class="grid grid-ls-4 gap-3"> <div class="l-span-1"> <div class="aspect-w-6 aspect-h-4 lg:aspect-w-3 lg:aspect-h-3"> <img class="lazy w-full h-full object-ver round-lg bg-gray-300 dark:bg-bunker-925 !m-0 !p-0" alt="Kate Bornste: 'Don't Be Mean'" data-src="> </div> </div> <div class="l-span-3 flex flex-l"> <span class="text-base text-gray-600 dark:text-bunker-200 leadg-tight font-semibold le-clamp-2">Kate Bornste: 'Don't Be Mean'</span> <span class="text-sm text-gray-400 dark:text-bunker-400 le-clamp-2">Kate Bornste didn’t go through wh her sex change operatn wh the tentn of tacklg genr theory. 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