Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
• CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
• SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTURECAK DA KILLA: HOW THE RAPPER SAYS HE FOUND HIS VOICE AMID HOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP7:15UNPACKG HIP-HOP'S PAST, FUTURE, AND PRENT LGBTQ BYDEENA ZAVIO BYELISA TANGNOVEMBER 02, 2021, 4:01 AMWHEN LIL NAS X ME OUT AS GAY 2019, THE RAPPER WAS ALREADY AN TERNATNAL SENSATN. HIS FIRST SGLE, "OLD TOWN ROAD," FEATURG BILLY RAY CYS, WHICH BLENDS UNTRY SOUNDS WH RAP MIC, HAD GONE VIRAL.WHILE MANY PRAISED THE RISG STAR FOR G OUT, AN TERVIEW WH THE BBC AT THE TIME, THE GRAMMY-WNG RAPPER REFLECTED ON SOME OF THE BACKLASH HE EXPERIENCED OM PEOPLE WH BOTH GENR."ESPECIALLY WH THE UNTRY AND THE HIP-HOP MUNI ... ’S NOT REALLY ACCEPTED EHER," LIL NAS X SAID.LIL NAS X BOUGHT 'OLD TOWN ROAD' BEAT FOR $30: THE STORY AND THE MOVEMENT BEHD THE RERD-BREAKG H'S MAKGHOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP AGA BEME A NATNAL TOPIC OF DISCSN OVER THE SUMMER WHEN RAPPER DABABY MA ANTI-LGBTQ MENTS, WHICH CLUD MISRMATN ABOUT HIV, THAT WERE WILY CRICIZED AS HOMOPHOBIC BY CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND VAR ARTISTS.LIL NAS X ATTENDS ATTENDS AN EVENT ON OCT. 20, 2021, ATLANTA.PRCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGAFTER NEARLY A MONTH OF MOUNTG CRICISM, DABABY APOLOGIZED AUGT DURG A MEETG WH GLAAD AND BLACK HIV ADVOT OM VAR ANIZATNS.HIP-HOP JOURNALIST DAVEY D TOLD ABC NEWS THAT "HIP-HOP MIRRORS SOCIETY," AND LARGE SEGMENTS OF AMERIN SOCIETY, MASCULY IS "NARROWLY FED" WH ELEMENTS OF "ROUGHNS AND TOUGHNS," AND "TO LARGE SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATN, THAT DON'T CLU BEG GAY.""THAT WILL FOREVER BE A CHALLENGE, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE SEE A LARGER BODY OF PEOPLE -- WHICH I SEE IS GROWG -- E AND REFE [THAT] LANDSPE," HE SAID.LIL NAS X EXPLAS WHY HE FELT WAS HIS 'DUTY' TO E OUT DURG HEIGHT OF HIS 'OLD TOWN ROAD' FAMEONE OF THOSE PEOPLE REFERENCED BY DAVEY D IS RAPPER CAK DA KILLA.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIACAK DA KILLA, WHOSE FULL NAME IS RASHARD BRADSHAW, RELEASED HIS LATT EP "MUVALAND VOL. 2" JULY, AND HE RELEASED HIS SHORT FILM "VISIBILY SUCKS" AUGT, A SEMI-BGRAPHIL PRODUCTN THAT TELLS THE STORY OF A STGGLG ARTIST.THE RAPPER, WHO IS KNOWN FOR HS SUCH AS "DON DADA" AND ALSO FOR MIXG ELEMENTS OF HIP-HOP WH HOE AND ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, CREDED SOCIAL MEDIA WH GIVG A PLATFORM TO ARTISTS LIKE HIMSELF."I'M A PRODUCT OF SOCIAL MEDIA," HE TOLD ABC NEWS. "I DON'T THK WHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ARTISTS LIKE CAK DA KILLA [WOULD] HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TOUR TERNATNALLY ... BEE THERE WAS NO WAY HELL THE DTRY WAS GONNA LET ME ."OVER THE PAST , THE RAPPER BEME A PROMENT VOICE FOR LGBTQ REPRENTATN HIP-HOP AFTER HE RVED A PLACE FOR HIMSELF THE UNRGROUND SCENE.LIL NAS X MAK WAV WH EMOTNALLY CHARGED BUT ALBUM 'MONTERO'THE RAPPER, WHO STARTED HIS REER AS AN OPENLY GAY ARTIST ABOUT A AGO NEW YORK CY, SAID THAT HE IS OFTEN ASKED TO WEIGH ON THE TOPIC OF HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP AND RELLED HIS APPEARANCE 2014 ON THE INIC HIP-HOP STATN HOT 97 AS A GUT ON "EBRO THE MORNG."FOR CAK, WAS A REER HIGHLIGHT, BUT HE ADMTED THAT THE NVERSATN "FELT WEIRD" BEE HE WAS ASKED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. THAT’S WHEN HE SAID HE REALIZED THAT BEG A GAY RAPPER WAS A TOPIC OF DISCSN THE MEDIA."IT WAS BASILLY LIKE, IF YOU'RE GAY AND YOU GO TO LLEGE, AND THEN YOU E BACK HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, AND YOU HAVE TO TALK TO LIKE YOUR UNCLE, WHO DON'T KNOW ANY GAY PEOPLE ABOUT LIKE, BEG GAY," HE SAID, SCRIBG THE NVERSATN.DABABY PERFORMS AT HARD ROCK STADIUM ON JULY 25, 2021, MIAMI GARNS, FLA.RICH FURY/GETTY IMAG, FILELZ GRANRSON, HOST OF ABC NEWS’ “LIFE OUT LOUD,” TOLD ABC NEWS THAT DABABY'S MENTS WERE AN EXAMPLE OF THE "TOXIC MASCULY" PRENT WH THE GENRE OF HIP-HOP THAT OFTEN PLAYS TO HOW ARTISTS PRENT THEMSELV THROUGH THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE AND THEIR MIC."THERE N BE RITUR OF MASCULY AND TOXIC MASCULY … AND THAT IS UNFORTUNATE," GRANRSON SAID. "BEE AS WE KNOW, WHAT THAT DO IS CREATE A SUATN THAT MAK SEEM AS IF MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA ARE ACCEPTABLE TO NOT JT HIP-HOP MIC, BUT THE CULTURE OF HIP-HOP."ASKED ABOUT THE BACKLASH AGAST DABABY, CAK SAID THAT THOUGH HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP IS IMPORTANT, HE FEELS THAT THE "MORE MEANGFUL NVERSATN" IS TO "BRG TO THE HOE.""FOR ME, I DON'T RE WHAT DABABY THKS. MY MA THG IS LIKE, WHAT DO MY NT FEEL ABOUT ME BEG GAY? YOU KNOW, LIKE, WHAT DO MY MOTHER FEEL LIKE? YOU KNOW, I THK WHEN WE START HAVG NVERSATNS ON THAT TYPE OF LEVEL ... TO ME, THAT'S MORE BENEFICIAL," HE SAID.RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLAAS A CHILD GROWG UP THE LATE 1990S NEW JERSEY, CAK SAID THAT NVERSATNS ABOUT GAY RIGHTS WERE MISSG OM THE MASTREAM DIALOGUE, AND WASN’T UNTIL HE WATCHED A DOCUMENTARY THAT EXAMED THE STONEWALL UPRISG THAT HE WAS ABLE TO FD THE LANGUAGE THAT BT SCRIB HIS INTY.THE DOCUMENTARY WAS ABOUT THE 1969 POLICE RAID ON THE STONEWALL INN, A POPULAR BAR FOR THE GAY MUNY THE GREENWICH VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW YORK, WHICH SPARKED A SERI OF RTS THAT LED TO THE RISE OF A GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT."THAT GAVE ME THE LANGUAGE TO BE LIKE, I KNOW WHO I AM. THIS IS WHAT I AM. I'M NOT DIFFERENT. I'M NOT ALONE. AND I WAS ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AN INTY," HE SAID. "SO OM THEN, YEAH, I WAS ABLE TO TELL MY MOM THAT I WAS GAY."A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE THE POLICE RAID AT THE STONEWALL INN NIGHTCLUB NEW YORK CY, JUNE 28, 1969.NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE VIA GETTY IMAG, FILEHE WAS THE THIRD GRA AT THE TIME.CAK SAID THAT WHILE HIS MOTHER WAS IALLY "SHELL-SHOCKED" BEE SHE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR HIM TO E OUT, PECIALLY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE, BUT "SHE END UP G AROUND TO ."THE RAPPER SAID THAT HAVG A SUPPORT SYSTEM OF IENDS AND FAY IS IMPORTANT, "AND BEG GAY AND BEG BLACK, WE HAVE THAT DOWN PAT, BEE WE'RE OUTLIERS TO THE WORLD A LOT OF THE TIME."RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLABUT HE SAID THAT HIS JOURNEY, "THE SUPPORT STARTED WH MYSELF."CAK SAID THAT FOR HIM, IS IMPORTANT TO REJECT THE "VICTIM NARRATIVE" AND EMBRACE A NARRATIVE OF EMPOWERMENT, SPE THE CHALLENG THAT HE FAC THE DTRY."JT BEG A BLACK MALE ARTIST, Y, THERE ARE GOG TO BE PEOPLE THAT DO NOT AGREE WH EFFEMACY OR TWO MEN KISSG OR THGS LIKE THAT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THK WHAT'S SO BETIFUL ABOUT THE TIME THAT WE'RE NOW [IS] PEOPLE HAVE THE PLATFORM TO JT DO ANYWAY," HE SAID.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIA"EVERYONE IS NOT GONNA AGREE WH WHAT YOU FEEL. AND I DON'T EXIST TO MAKE EVERYONE LIKE ME. THAT'S VERY DRAG … FOR ME, I'M EMPOWERED BY JT EXISTG," HE ADD.ABC NEWS' MIH WASHGTON NTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023
• RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)

There are several out and proud gay rappers who are absolutely killg wh diverse, sometim hilar, sometim poignant lyrics that you should fely be vibg along to. There has been a well-known stigma towards homosexualy hip-hop which has led to some artists’ reers beg tarnished by mors that they had associatns wh people of the same sex.

While his h song “Old Town Road” was at the top of the Billboard Top 100 Chart for a rerd-breakg 19 weeks, Lil Nas X ma the brave cisn to e out as a gay rapper. In one of his tracks, he touch upon this subject wh the lyrics, “Won’t let me through ‘e I’m back like Santan, Won’t let me through ‘e I’m gay like Schofield.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

This tweet, which was both ndid and wty, required a lot of urage to liver, particularly 2017 when beg a gay rapper was still a ntroversial topic the mic dtry.

He distguish himself his mic by beg ndid about his sexualy and sex life, which is not unmon for heterosexual hip-hop artists but is not typil for gay artists. Da Brat ced the pervasive homophobia of the ’90s for her cisn not to e out earlier and said that people like Ellen faced signifint backlash for beg openly gay. However, he ultimately accepted that his happs and the value of the reprentatn as a Black gay rapper eclipsed a need for acceptance wh the hip-hop muny.

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

She also discsed the prevalence of vlence agast butch-prentg gay women, highlightg the murr of several lbians a regn of Chile that has bee notor for s homophobic hate crim.

“Beg ‘butch’ means wearg your sexualy on your sleeve, which, an age still explibly marred by homophobia, n have grave nsequenc all over the world, ” she stated. The rapper also llaborated wh openly gay hip-hop artist iLoveMakonnen, provg that diversy and acceptance were at the foreont of his creative visn.

Although there’s a long way to go before the discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ artists be a thg of the past, the rise of gay artists is a sign that the hip-hop dtry has started to break away om the notns. While other genr, gay sgers like Elton John and Sam Smh have been phed by labels, rappers that are gay are vastly outnumbered by their straight unterparts.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

In a 2005 terview wh SPIN, 50 Cent stated that homosexualy is taboo hip-hop: “In hip-hop, there’s (sic) certa standards of thgs you n’t do. There’s always been nflict at the center of hip-hop, bee ’s all about which guy has the petive edge, and you n’t be that aggrsive if you’re gay.

Emem, who famoly the slur “f*****t” multiple songs, claimed a Rollg Stone terview that he never equated the term wh homosexualy, but “[i]t was more like llg someone a b**** or a punk or a******. Pop star Lil Nas X me out as gay durg Pri Month 2019 while his song “Old Town Road” was number one on the Billboard Hot 100, tellg his fans “efore this month ends, I want y’all to listen closely to c7osure” wh a rabow emoji.

CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC

” Sce then, the artist has released an album lled Hedonism, as well as several extend plays and mixtap characterized by quickfire rap, aggrsn, and unabashed gay eroticism.

The artist’s name ntas a nod to gay slang, as he noted, “[i]n the gay muny, your backsi is lled your k, and I have a lot of that… [w]hen I thk about ke, I thk sweet, mpy and edible, which is one si of me.

SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTURECAK DA KILLA: HOW THE RAPPER SAYS HE FOUND HIS VOICE AMID HOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP7:15UNPACKG HIP-HOP'S PAST, FUTURE, AND PRENT LGBTQ BYDEENA ZAVIO BYELISA TANGNOVEMBER 02, 2021, 4:01 AMWHEN LIL NAS X ME OUT AS GAY 2019, THE RAPPER WAS ALREADY AN TERNATNAL SENSATN. HIS FIRST SGLE, "OLD TOWN ROAD," FEATURG BILLY RAY CYS, WHICH BLENDS UNTRY SOUNDS WH RAP MIC, HAD GONE VIRAL.WHILE MANY PRAISED THE RISG STAR FOR G OUT, AN TERVIEW WH THE BBC AT THE TIME, THE GRAMMY-WNG RAPPER REFLECTED ON SOME OF THE BACKLASH HE EXPERIENCED OM PEOPLE WH BOTH GENR."ESPECIALLY WH THE UNTRY AND THE HIP-HOP MUNI ... ’S NOT REALLY ACCEPTED EHER," LIL NAS X SAID.LIL NAS X BOUGHT 'OLD TOWN ROAD' BEAT FOR $30: THE STORY AND THE MOVEMENT BEHD THE RERD-BREAKG H'S MAKGHOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP AGA BEME A NATNAL TOPIC OF DISCSN OVER THE SUMMER WHEN RAPPER DABABY MA ANTI-LGBTQ MENTS, WHICH CLUD MISRMATN ABOUT HIV, THAT WERE WILY CRICIZED AS HOMOPHOBIC BY CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND VAR ARTISTS.LIL NAS X ATTENDS ATTENDS AN EVENT ON OCT. 20, 2021, ATLANTA.PRCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGAFTER NEARLY A MONTH OF MOUNTG CRICISM, DABABY APOLOGIZED AUGT DURG A MEETG WH GLAAD AND BLACK HIV ADVOT OM VAR ANIZATNS.HIP-HOP JOURNALIST DAVEY D TOLD ABC NEWS THAT "HIP-HOP MIRRORS SOCIETY," AND LARGE SEGMENTS OF AMERIN SOCIETY, MASCULY IS "NARROWLY FED" WH ELEMENTS OF "ROUGHNS AND TOUGHNS," AND "TO LARGE SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATN, THAT DON'T CLU BEG GAY.""THAT WILL FOREVER BE A CHALLENGE, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE SEE A LARGER BODY OF PEOPLE -- WHICH I SEE IS GROWG -- E AND REFE [THAT] LANDSPE," HE SAID.LIL NAS X EXPLAS WHY HE FELT WAS HIS 'DUTY' TO E OUT DURG HEIGHT OF HIS 'OLD TOWN ROAD' FAMEONE OF THOSE PEOPLE REFERENCED BY DAVEY D IS RAPPER CAK DA KILLA.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIACAK DA KILLA, WHOSE FULL NAME IS RASHARD BRADSHAW, RELEASED HIS LATT EP "MUVALAND VOL. 2" JULY, AND HE RELEASED HIS SHORT FILM "VISIBILY SUCKS" AUGT, A SEMI-BGRAPHIL PRODUCTN THAT TELLS THE STORY OF A STGGLG ARTIST.THE RAPPER, WHO IS KNOWN FOR HS SUCH AS "DON DADA" AND ALSO FOR MIXG ELEMENTS OF HIP-HOP WH HOE AND ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, CREDED SOCIAL MEDIA WH GIVG A PLATFORM TO ARTISTS LIKE HIMSELF."I'M A PRODUCT OF SOCIAL MEDIA," HE TOLD ABC NEWS. "I DON'T THK WHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ARTISTS LIKE CAK DA KILLA [WOULD] HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TOUR TERNATNALLY ... BEE THERE WAS NO WAY HELL THE DTRY WAS GONNA LET ME ."OVER THE PAST , THE RAPPER BEME A PROMENT VOICE FOR LGBTQ REPRENTATN HIP-HOP AFTER HE RVED A PLACE FOR HIMSELF THE UNRGROUND SCENE.LIL NAS X MAK WAV WH EMOTNALLY CHARGED BUT ALBUM 'MONTERO'THE RAPPER, WHO STARTED HIS REER AS AN OPENLY GAY ARTIST ABOUT A AGO NEW YORK CY, SAID THAT HE IS OFTEN ASKED TO WEIGH ON THE TOPIC OF HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP AND RELLED HIS APPEARANCE 2014 ON THE INIC HIP-HOP STATN HOT 97 AS A GUT ON "EBRO THE MORNG."FOR CAK, WAS A REER HIGHLIGHT, BUT HE ADMTED THAT THE NVERSATN "FELT WEIRD" BEE HE WAS ASKED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. THAT’S WHEN HE SAID HE REALIZED THAT BEG A GAY RAPPER WAS A TOPIC OF DISCSN THE MEDIA."IT WAS BASILLY LIKE, IF YOU'RE GAY AND YOU GO TO LLEGE, AND THEN YOU E BACK HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, AND YOU HAVE TO TALK TO LIKE YOUR UNCLE, WHO DON'T KNOW ANY GAY PEOPLE ABOUT LIKE, BEG GAY," HE SAID, SCRIBG THE NVERSATN.DABABY PERFORMS AT HARD ROCK STADIUM ON JULY 25, 2021, MIAMI GARNS, FLA.RICH FURY/GETTY IMAG, FILELZ GRANRSON, HOST OF ABC NEWS’ “LIFE OUT LOUD,” TOLD ABC NEWS THAT DABABY'S MENTS WERE AN EXAMPLE OF THE "TOXIC MASCULY" PRENT WH THE GENRE OF HIP-HOP THAT OFTEN PLAYS TO HOW ARTISTS PRENT THEMSELV THROUGH THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE AND THEIR MIC."THERE N BE RITUR OF MASCULY AND TOXIC MASCULY … AND THAT IS UNFORTUNATE," GRANRSON SAID. "BEE AS WE KNOW, WHAT THAT DO IS CREATE A SUATN THAT MAK SEEM AS IF MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA ARE ACCEPTABLE TO NOT JT HIP-HOP MIC, BUT THE CULTURE OF HIP-HOP."ASKED ABOUT THE BACKLASH AGAST DABABY, CAK SAID THAT THOUGH HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA WH HIP-HOP IS IMPORTANT, HE FEELS THAT THE "MORE MEANGFUL NVERSATN" IS TO "BRG TO THE HOE.""FOR ME, I DON'T RE WHAT DABABY THKS. MY MA THG IS LIKE, WHAT DO MY NT FEEL ABOUT ME BEG GAY? YOU KNOW, LIKE, WHAT DO MY MOTHER FEEL LIKE? YOU KNOW, I THK WHEN WE START HAVG NVERSATNS ON THAT TYPE OF LEVEL ... TO ME, THAT'S MORE BENEFICIAL," HE SAID.RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLAAS A CHILD GROWG UP THE LATE 1990S NEW JERSEY, CAK SAID THAT NVERSATNS ABOUT GAY RIGHTS WERE MISSG OM THE MASTREAM DIALOGUE, AND WASN’T UNTIL HE WATCHED A DOCUMENTARY THAT EXAMED THE STONEWALL UPRISG THAT HE WAS ABLE TO FD THE LANGUAGE THAT BT SCRIB HIS INTY.THE DOCUMENTARY WAS ABOUT THE 1969 POLICE RAID ON THE STONEWALL INN, A POPULAR BAR FOR THE GAY MUNY THE GREENWICH VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW YORK, WHICH SPARKED A SERI OF RTS THAT LED TO THE RISE OF A GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT."THAT GAVE ME THE LANGUAGE TO BE LIKE, I KNOW WHO I AM. THIS IS WHAT I AM. I'M NOT DIFFERENT. I'M NOT ALONE. AND I WAS ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AN INTY," HE SAID. "SO OM THEN, YEAH, I WAS ABLE TO TELL MY MOM THAT I WAS GAY."A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE THE POLICE RAID AT THE STONEWALL INN NIGHTCLUB NEW YORK CY, JUNE 28, 1969.NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE VIA GETTY IMAG, FILEHE WAS THE THIRD GRA AT THE TIME.CAK SAID THAT WHILE HIS MOTHER WAS IALLY "SHELL-SHOCKED" BEE SHE WAS NOT PREPARED FOR HIM TO E OUT, PECIALLY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE, BUT "SHE END UP G AROUND TO ."THE RAPPER SAID THAT HAVG A SUPPORT SYSTEM OF IENDS AND FAY IS IMPORTANT, "AND BEG GAY AND BEG BLACK, WE HAVE THAT DOWN PAT, BEE WE'RE OUTLIERS TO THE WORLD A LOT OF THE TIME."RASHARD BRADSHAW, KNOWN AS CAK DA KILLA, IS PICTURED AS A CHILD AN UNDATED FAY PHOTO.COURTY CAK DA KILLABUT HE SAID THAT HIS JOURNEY, "THE SUPPORT STARTED WH MYSELF."CAK SAID THAT FOR HIM, IS IMPORTANT TO REJECT THE "VICTIM NARRATIVE" AND EMBRACE A NARRATIVE OF EMPOWERMENT, SPE THE CHALLENG THAT HE FAC THE DTRY."JT BEG A BLACK MALE ARTIST, Y, THERE ARE GOG TO BE PEOPLE THAT DO NOT AGREE WH EFFEMACY OR TWO MEN KISSG OR THGS LIKE THAT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THK WHAT'S SO BETIFUL ABOUT THE TIME THAT WE'RE NOW [IS] PEOPLE HAVE THE PLATFORM TO JT DO ANYWAY," HE SAID.RAPPER CAK DA KILLA POS FOR A PORTRA.LISSYELLE LARICCHIA"EVERYONE IS NOT GONNA AGREE WH WHAT YOU FEEL. AND I DON'T EXIST TO MAKE EVERYONE LIKE ME. THAT'S VERY DRAG … FOR ME, I'M EMPOWERED BY JT EXISTG," HE ADD.ABC NEWS' MIH WASHGTON NTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023

The artist has spoken out agast allegedly homophobic treatment after beg arrted Portugal and posted solidary wh Rsia’s LGBTQ muny after news of a police raid on a Mosw venue where Blan was schled to perform.

Though he never explicly intified wh a gay or bisexual label, sger and rapper Frank Ocean ma breakg news after he posted a letter on Tumblr 2012 talkg about his “first love” wh another boy that the rapper met early his life.

RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS

We saw Snoop Dogg's famo 2013 terview wh The Guardian, when the "G and Juice" rapper claimed, "[Homosexualy is] acceptable the sgg world, but the rap world I don't know if will ever be acceptable bee rap is so mascule. Odd Future has long been cricized for s homophobic lyrics, so much so that the band was booted om Atralia's massive Big Day Out ftival 2011, acrdg to Billboard. In Ocean's letter, which was origally meant to be clud the "Channel Orange" ler not, the rapper spoke about havg his first gay romance at the age of 19.

Nohels, the Odd Future DJ wasn't exactly accepted to the gay muny, particularly nsirg Odd Future's ntroversial history (Tyler the Creator the word "f****t" 200 tim on "Gobl" alone). 1 but on the Billboard 200, and a multi-ln dollar rerd al wh RCA, which ontman Kev Abstract claimed was gog to help them ph their "gay agenda. Sheran has sce parted ways wh Drake, who helped him nab a Grammy nomatn, but he ma an even bigger impact on his own when he me out as gay on Twter 2017.

By 2015, the rapper felt like people still didn't get the ht and took to Twter to air her grievanc followg an onslght of accatns claimg she was homophobic. However, her work still feels radil rather than regrsive, bee Young MA is one of the few outspokenly gay members of the greater hip-hop muny. The star knew she was gay sce her first year of school, but nied to her mother until she me out — to the support of her fay — when she was 18 years old.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

"There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls exprsg themselv; I'm not the first to say , I'm not the first to rap about , " she told The Guardian. He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh .

NBC News noted his mic serv as a much-need opposn to a hip-hop culture where homophobic lyrics have tradnally been the norm (50 cent, famed for g the "f" word his songs, has sce apologized for past homophobia, as has Emem). " She also prevly told The New York Tim that she don't re whether people thk she's gay, but was important for her to mata a modicum of mystery around her personal life.

In 2012, he revealed he is gay and once claimed to be the first rapper to e out as such, though this is disputable (Frank Ocean's g out, for stance, cid wh Y-Love's). " He highlighted the signifince of livg his tth, revealg he spent years worryg about the potential effects g out might have on his public reputatn, before ultimately ncedg that his personal happs — and the value of reprentatn as a Black gay rapper — eclipsed a need for acceptance wh the hip-hop muny. " She also discsed the prevalence of vlence agast butch-prentg gay women, highlightg the murr of a number of lbians a regn of Chile that has bee notor for s homophobic hate crim.