Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• FALLY, SOME GAY PRI FROM THE YANKE
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• DADDY YANKEE’S ALLEGED GAY KISS PICTURE AND COMG OUT EXPLAED
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• A FORMER YANKE EMPLOYEE IS SPREADG GAY SEX RUMORS ABOUT DEREK JETER AND JE POSADA
• FORMER YANKEE EMPLOYEE CLAIMS DEREK JETER AND JE POSADA WERE GAY
• SGER DADDY YANKEE DENI PUBLISHED REPORTS THAT HE'S GAY
• AS MORE TEAMS HOST GAY PRI EVENTS, YANKE REMA A HOLDOUT

FALLY, SOME GAY PRI FROM THE YANKE

9, 2018Next year is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg 1969, when monstratns after a police raid on a Greenwich Village bar helped kdle the morn gay rights memoratn of such a semal moment for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is expected to draw lns to New York next June for ftivals, paras and cultural all, a surprisg participant has ggerly emerged: the Yanke.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Major League Baseball had a float the New York Cy Pri March for the first time this year, wh the recently retired umpire Dale Stt, who is gay, faced wh the potential embarrassment of beg the only major league team never to have held a pri night at a game, the Yanke are velopg a seri of events next season tied to the celebratn of the Stonewall rts, a team spokman said, nfirmg an SNY report on Tuday.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

People — not jt for those New York Cy but around the world, ” said Corey Johnson, the Cy Council speaker, who me out as gay to his high school football teammat nearly 20 years ago. General Manager Brian Cashman and his assistant general manager, Jean Afterman, have worked wh groups that assist gay and transgenr youths, and the team has ved Billy Bean, the gay M.

By amg their plans around the Stonewall celebratn, the Yanke hope to create an event that some way endur, though remas uncerta whether will be more than a one-time Buzski, a founr of the webse Outsports, said there were a number of meangful steps the Yanke uld take, cludg settg up a scholarship fund for gay llege stunts terted sports management and puttg L. A., ” fans the Yankee Stadium bleachers tnted opposg fans wh a vulgar versn of the song that clud a chos of “Why are you gay?

DADDY YANKEE’S ALLEGED GAY KISS PICTURE AND COMG OUT EXPLAED

The Dodgers publicly apologized, stuted sensivy trag and donated 5, 000 tickets to a gay and lbian rights anizatn. The next year, the Chigo Cubs held what is believed to be the first game promoted as a gay pri recent years, the Dodgers have put a Hollywood flourish on their L.

Night, recg gay celebri to sg the natnal anthem and throw out the ceremonial first pch and teamg wh L. The team donat to the Trevor Project, an advocy group for suici preventn among gay and transgenr youths and sponsors L.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

“We’re volved throughout the year, ” said Braverman, one of baseball’s hight-rankg openly gay executiv.

A FORMER YANKE EMPLOYEE IS SPREADG GAY SEX RUMORS ABOUT DEREK JETER AND JE POSADA

We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy. 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.

Though the hip-hop muny is jt begng to accept queerns, the openly gay rappers are bravely pavg the way.

FORMER YANKEE EMPLOYEE CLAIMS DEREK JETER AND JE POSADA WERE GAY

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. "I cid to do bee I wish I had someone like that [an openly gay female artist] while I was g up, " she told LA Weekly.

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.

SGER DADDY YANKEE DENI PUBLISHED REPORTS THAT HE'S GAY

"I'd see negative ments and fet [beg gay] was a big al to some people, that some people hadn't heard before, " he told ShortList. 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.

And sce y'all love breakg news, here's some old news to break, I'm gay. 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. "Jt give the Azealia Banks is a homophobe thg a rt bee I'm not.

My whole life is gay. All of my iends are gay, I am bisexual....

AS MORE TEAMS HOST GAY PRI EVENTS, YANKE REMA A HOLDOUT

"I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people. 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. "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.

It's kd of sad that those few who do e out get so much attentn bee they are gay, rather than bee of their mic.