Rapper Azealia Banks Has a Problem Wh Gay Men

Contents:

• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• AZEALIA BANKS DISAPPOTS FANS WH BIZARRE, OFFENSIVE CLAIM ‘GAYS ARE APPROPRIATG HORSE CULTURE’
• AZEALIA BANKS CHANNELS GAY “BALL CULTURE” AT THE MERMAID BALL  L.A.
• AZEALIA BANKS: WHY CAN GAY MEN SAY "BCH" BUT I CAN'T SAY "F----T"?
• AZEALIA BANKS STORMS OFF STAGE AT GAY PRI EVENT, BLAM ALLERGI TO ‘DRY ICE’
• RAPPER AZEALIA BANKS HAS A PROBLEM WH GAY MEN
• AZEALIA BANKS PAR GAY MUNY TO THE KKK
• AZEALIA BANKS COMPAR THE LGBT COMMUNY TO 'GAY WHE KKK'S'

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

She also cricized the show's secury and lled the event "an absolute display of how Hispanic cizens south Florida make poor attempts at selfish sh grabs by explog young undocumented gay boys for nightlife entertament. RELATED VIDEO: Azealia Banks Reportedly Calls Flight Attendant Homophobic Slur.

Although she has intified as bisexual, Banks has e unr fire on several ocsns for homophobic and transphobic language.

The Broke wh Expensive Taste artist went on a homophobic rant 2015, parg the LGBTQ muny to the KKK and sayg she wanted to "spray a gay man the face wh pepper spray, " shortly after g a homophobic slur agast a flight attendant. Banks then lled trans women "hot gay boys" wh plastic surgery and said she was "Jewish now. In another, Banks said trans women were "jt hot gay boys wh beat fac and plastic surgery.

AZEALIA BANKS DISAPPOTS FANS WH BIZARRE, OFFENSIVE CLAIM ‘GAYS ARE APPROPRIATG HORSE CULTURE’

Jt gay boys on hormon g male aggrsn to force their ways to women's spac, " Banks ' statements reflected numero stereotyp about transgenr people, ignorg, for stance, the fact that not all trans women unrgo genr-nfirmatn surgery or hormone-replacement also equated people's genr to their assigned sex at birth, which negat the existence of transgenr people and their experienc. Her age of the word "gay" siarly nflated genr and sexualy — a trans person n be gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, or queer, jt like cisgenr people.

The hip-hop world don't have a reputatn for beg the iendlit place for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people.

Homophobia has popped up lyrics and tweets om rappers like 50 Cent and Tyler the Creator and though superstar Nicki Maj has toyed wh bisexualy and rapper Fat Joe has shown support for the LGBT muny, we've yet to see a hip-hop star wh a mastream dience actually e out of the now. It's no secret that there's been a longstandg stigma when to homosexualy hip-hop. Here's a look at hip-hop artists who embrace beg gay, lbian or bisexual.

AZEALIA BANKS CHANNELS GAY “BALL CULTURE” AT THE MERMAID BALL  L.A.

Remember, she's lled HIV/AIDS patients sex addicts, and dropped a homophobic ephet on a flight attendant. That beg said, she's always had a lot of gay fans who've stuck wh her.

The 23-year-old bisexual rapper and sger has been tweetg gay slurs, sex lgo and promotg a Jezebelarticle tled "The Myth of the Fag Hag and Dirty Secrets of the Gay Male Subculture. "Banks, who 2013 fend her e of hate speech -- specifilly the word faggot-- an onle spat wh Perez Hilton, is unabashedly slgg that slur once aga and appropriatg other gay termology, a new Twter tira: What prompted all this was a tweet battle between Banks and gay Vice associate edor and blogger Mchell Sunrland a week ago.

AZEALIA BANKS: WHY CAN GAY MEN SAY "BCH" BUT I CAN'T SAY "F----T"?

Sunrland wrote about a post tled "My Bizarre Twter Beef wh Azealia Banks and Her Homophobia. Skny, barely legal gay boys.

" In that cint, Banks cled to back away when lled out, and only dug herself eper: "A faggot is not a homosexual male, " she tweeted. "And even though Sunrland never reengaged her, the sger has not let up, tweetg Monday, "Gay media has to stop g homophobia as a means to try and victimize self and sr the nam of s opponents.... Phobia would imply that I am sred of gay men or dislike them bee of what they choose to do sexually...

AZEALIA BANKS STORMS OFF STAGE AT GAY PRI EVENT, BLAM ALLERGI TO ‘DRY ICE’

Instead, Banks tweeted disparagg remarks g other terms particular to gay men, such as "bsy, " and allegg she was a victim of both whe privilege and what she termed, "whe media.

RAPPER AZEALIA BANKS HAS A PROBLEM WH GAY MEN

For a gay man to lloquially e the word 'Bch' to refer to women, but is not okay for me to lloquially e the word Faggot to refer to myself or an opponent? Do gay men get a special pass to say misogynist thgs simply bee they Like dick? ""The argument, " her post ntu, " is that untls gay kids hear the word 'faggot' before they are beat to ath...

"Sunrland tweeted earlier this week that "Azealia Banks went on a homophobic rant about me. "In rponse to an Advote requt for ment, Sunrland said, "Lookg back at my tweets, and nsirg Azealia Banks's large platform and fluence on her fans, I am nfint I ma the right choice to stand up to her homophobia and expla the ments' offensivens the article.

"Banks has also attracted supporters, both women and men intifyg themselv as gay, clarg they are agreement wh Jezebel's articl about "gay subculture" and what they say are misogynistic tennci of gay late Thursday, Banks hted a tweet and on Instagram that there would be good news for her reer ahead: "Ugh, I n't wa to piss mouths wh next week's announcements. Azealia Banks posted a meme claimg that “mastream” gay men are “appropriatg horse culture” their e of harns, ketame and lube. The 29-year-old had choice words for those cricisg her spirualy, postg the meme which said gay people are “appropriatg horse culture”.

AZEALIA BANKS PAR GAY MUNY TO THE KKK

The meme, which appeared to have been first shared Augt this year on a gay meme Tumblr blog, employed clichés of queer men.

“Mastream gay culture a nutshell, ” Banks wrote the ptn. Banks is bisexual, but one fan untered: “Clearly you are not a gay man and are misreprentg a subculture. As a gay man, I fd this absolutely offensive.

AZEALIA BANKS COMPAR THE LGBT COMMUNY TO 'GAY WHE KKK'S'

In a time where Hip-Hop is gog through a radil perd of cultural change – cludg wing acceptance of homosexualy – I thk that Azealia Banks’ rporatn of drag culture is not only novative, but fascatg as well. For many gay and transgenred men the ‘60’s, participatg unrground drag balls wasn’t jt a creative mo of exprsn, was a ptivatg blend of glz, glamour, fashn, dance and mararie.

The photo, ptned "Azealia Banks is Homophobic 1, " stated the followg:The reactns om fans were mixed. When gay men say bch to womerr or each other is not as an sult...

The term bch, like n---a, has been ed as a term of enarment both the gay muny and black muny...