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Contents:

• A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
• BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM

How many members of Brockhampton are actually gay? We all know Kev is for sure, but how many members, total, are actually 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? “My goal is jt to normalize , ” he says of rappg about beg gay.

BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY

In orr to make a change, I have to exist a tradnally homophobic space such as Hip-Hop.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

Acrdg to Gallup, the timate of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) populatn the Uned Stat rose to 4. 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.