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Milan Christopher has never been shy. The rapper me to promence on VH1's Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, where he broke ground the send season as the seri's first openly gay realy star, navigatg a relatnship wh then-boyiend Mil Brock. He ntued to pursue his mic reer, releas...

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BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND

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) gay and qutng, and more trans artists have entered the mix recent years. Adrienne, who sists she’s straight and “only gay for Snoop. An aspirg rapper himself, Bobby is the anchise’s first openly gay ma st member.

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

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We see him alg wh homophobia the hip-hop dtry as well as stgglg his relatnship wh his boyiend Jefey, who Bobby learns is cheatg on him wh his ex Malik. Miami Tip clash wh her iend Scy Santana, an openly gay rapper, who was shot a drive-by last December which he believ was a hate crime. Depictns of same-sex upl and gay culture are beg more and more mon to televisn, yet documentg a relatnship between two men the historilly homophobic world of hip hop may be a Christopher and Mil Brock hope their story will help affect change a muny that’s been largely ristant to UP for the ee Indie Foc movi newsletter >>“It’s hard bee there is no prototype to follow, ” said Christopher, 29, over drks Hollywood.

”On Monday, an anticipated episo which Brock out to his ex-girliend will be followed by a special roundtable discsn regardg homophobia hip hop.

Christopher is openly gay but Brock’s fay didn’t know about his sexualy before the show premiered (some of his fay members are no longer speakg to him, he said). Last year “Empire” broke ground by featurg a black gay character for s drama that tak place the world of hip hop. Historilly, realy seri have relegated gay men to the sikick/bt-iend role; characters who orb around straight unterparts.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

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Black gay men have been further siled, limed to stereotypil rol such as stylists or personal doceri, “Tha Life Atlanta, ” bucked the trend by showg myriad black gay men livg and lovg, but was only seen onle after multiple works passed on a show as groundbreakg as MTV’s “The Real World, ” rponsible for showg some of realy televisn’s earlit imag of queer life Ameri, experienced a shock a ago when a black man me out a season where had already st a gay roommate ( was the first time the show featured two gay men s st).

Christopher and Brock’s prence on a high-profile platform such as VH1 uld help chip away at least some of the misogyny and homophobia herent rap culture.

Still, the ia of a gay male breakg mastream rap seems unheard of. “I want to do hardre rap, ” Christopher said, “but I’ve had iends say you shouldn’t bee you’re gay. A and Public Enemy ma no qualms about their disda for gay men their lyrics.

APRYL JON CLAIMS OMARN JOED ‘LOVE AND HIP HOP’ TO DISPEL GAY RUMORS

Apryl Jon reveals the nature of her relatnship wh Omarn while claimg he joed the show to dispel gay mors. The last time all ey were on Apryl Jon, was long before the panmic. After beg spotted wh Dr. Dre, the TV personaly is apparently fendg herself om accatns that she started actg out on * love and hip hop gay *

By the late ‘90s, the Beastie Boys had formally apologized for homophobic lyrics s semal 1986 but, “Licensed to Ill” (which was origally supposed to be tled “Don’t Be a Faggot”). Tyler, the Creator has repeatedly argued his age of gay slurs.

50 Cent once publicly nounced gay men “but women who like women, ” he said, “that’s ol.

And years after famoly aligng wh Elton John at the Grammys, Emem, long cricized for his e of gay slurs, snagged a rap album Grammy for a rerd that had multiple slurs on past stallments of “Love & Hip Hop, ” viewers watched female mols Eri Mena and Cyn Santana fall and out of love, and a handful of female st members intify as lbian and bisexual. “Moments like this don’t happen often for black gay men, even scripted televisn, ” said Drew-Shane Daniels, founr and edor chief of Med magaze, a news and culture se for black gay men. “For so long black gay characters uld not stand on their own.

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The newt member of "Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" believ he's beg shunned by st members bee they don't want to share the small screen wh an openly gay rapper. * love and hip hop gay *

“It’s been abundantly clear that there’s a certa openns to the exprsn of displeasure of the gay muny. Monday------------MORE:In their own words, on beg black and (openly) gay HollywoodHollywood appears still wary of gay black men’s marketabilyPHOTOS: Gay celebri: Who is out? “I have been alg wh people llg me gay sce I was the fourth gra bee of thgs I n’t ntrol.

EXCLIVE: K. MICHELLE TALKS NIKKO & JOHNNY'S SEXUALY + WHETHER OR NOT RASHEEDA'S HBAND IS GAY

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”He ntu, “I have to al wh people llg me gay every day.

Oh, and se you need help changg your toxic views on genr norms, Prce suggts the documentary Do I Sound Gay for your viewg Prce scribe his life as the party kg of Miami and why he has such a way wh the ladi. Well bee hip hop is known as beg herently homophobic (i do not believe that but 's a stereotype), and although there has been and still is homophobia the hip hop muny, queer rappers and hip hop heads are out here.

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.

'LOVE AND HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD' -- NEW CAST MEMBER ... RAPPERS WON'T SHOOT WH ME 'CSE I'M GAY

Are Mil and Milan still together? The former 'Love & Hip Hop Hollywood' stars were the anchise's first openly gay uple. * love and hip hop gay *

Samson/Tnk ArchiveWhy n’t straight men stop obssg about gay people? Maybe they should terrogate their own prient terts other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the ia of male timacy ril the past few weeks, several rappers have ma sensive — or full-on homophobic — statements about gay people. Fend DaBaby, sayg that gay people had gone om beg bullied to dog the bullyg, simply bee they had mand acuntabily om DaBaby, urgg him to apologize and phg mic ftivals to drop him om their lps.

About a week after DaBaby’s rant, Boosie Badazz, a hip-hop artist who me up the 1990s, went after Lil Nas X, one of the rare rappers who are openly, unapologetilly, explosns-of-glter gay, threateng to asslt me say first that the untry has quickly evolved on the acceptance of gayns, and that clus an evolutn among Black people. But as acceptance and visibily rise, those the mory who feel threatened by gay people have grown lour. They talk apolyptic terms about a “gay agenda” sted to rec throngs to a gay “liftyle.

”Let’s clarify: Beg gay is not a liftyle that one n choose, like beg a jet-setter or a bohemian; is an immutable feature of a life. Also, there is no explosn of gayns simply bee gay people are now more visible than they once were.

‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ CASTS GAY RAPPER MILAN CHRISTOPHER

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I don’t see a gay agenda this story but an anti-gay first, let me say this: Whenever I enunter a passnate homophobe, my md immediately foc on his passn. Why would a straight man vote so much time and energy to hatg gay people?

THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

Jonathan Fernanz of VH1's "Love & Hip Hop" reunts his experience wh gay nversn therapy as a child and the years took for him to mend his relatnship wh his mother. * love and hip hop gay *

”In other words, some homophob outwardly attack that wh which they wardly battle. I have always ntend that all of the -isms and -phobias are s, that a society that creat a hierarchy of humany wh whe, straight, cisgenr men at the apex, every person who is not whe or straight or cisgenr or male gets assigned a lower orr of that sense, racism and sexism, homophobia and transphobia all branch om the same one bias n fluence and amplify a society that treats racism as a sport, which each racial group is jockeyg agast the others, all of them shadowed by a culture of whe supremacy laced wh misogyny, anythg that rc your percentage of straight mal or “femiz” them is seen as weakeng the Black people bee agents agast Black power and Black liberatn, a weight on the this dulent this is adopted, traracial terror picks up where terracial terror left off.

It is not the gay Black person who be an stment of a whe supremacist attack on Black masculy; is the Black homophobe who be the stment of opprsn agast his own is important to pot out that the racist and the homophobe often employ the same tactics.

Homophob often e the same tactic, claimg that they are protectg children om is precisely the fense Boosie Badazz ed when appearg on “The Breakfast Club” rad show, at one pot seemgly exprsg a fear that if rappers didn’t speak out agast certa exprsns of gayns, an entire generatn of children uld be aga, to clarify: There is no amount of exposure that n make a straight man prefer a penis or a gay one prefer a vaga. If that were te, wh all the straight love and affectn gay kids are exposed to, they would all be turned straight by the age of 5.

JONATHAN FERNANZ OF 'LOVE & HIP HOP' ON SURVIVG GAY NVERSN THERAPY: 'YOU ARE BROKEN DOWN TO YOUR RE'

Sexual attractn and sexualy jt don’t work that this simplistic notn of sexualy oms is that there are also gay children who have known they were different for as long as they have known anythg, and those children serve reprentatn and visibily; they need to know that there is nothg wrong, broken or evil about them, so that they, too, n feel normal and seen. This is the same kd of fense homophob often e. On Tuday, Boosie Badazz troduced the world to his gay manager an Instagram post an attempt to monstrate that he uld not be You n be racist wh Black iends and homophobic wh gay on.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

I have two thgs to say to Black male homophob. Two: Men who are secure don’t re one b about what gay people are dog behd closed doors.

Not only do gayns have nothg to do wh them, but on the evolutnary blogy level, also elimat petors om the heterosexual petn for mat. @CharlMBlow • Facebook A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Anti-Gay Agenda. Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood troduced the first openly gay uple the anchise, Milan and Mil, the send season.

Several episos featured public service announcements that sought to help people stgglg wh sexual inty, and there was a special episo which experts weighed on homophobia the origal New York stallment, Jonathan Fernanz, a makp artist, was ught a love triangle wh his boyiend, Trent. When Love & Hip-Hop: Miami premiered this year, openly gay aspirg rapper Bobby Lyt had relatnship drama and a notor beef wh another openly gay st member, Alv.

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