Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' gay rights anthem 'Same Love' ws at MTV VMAs

Contents:

• IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
• I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
• SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
• MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”
• MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS
• INSI MACKLEMORE’S CSA FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS’ GAY EQUALY ANTHEM HS TOP 20 ON HOT 100
• STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM

IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]

As far as wag to wed until everyone n, the Seattle rapper has been an outspoken advote of gay rights, wh his Mary Lambert llaboratn “Same Love” peakg at No.

As "Same Love" turns 10, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' llaborators revis the song's powerful impact, om lyrics that support gay marriage to a mass weddg at the 2014 GRAMMYs.

I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.

Macklemore was partially spired by his gay uncle, who is mentned the song's first verse, when wrg "Same Love. Her stct was right: "Same Love" was nomated for Song Of The Year at the 2014 GRAMMY Awards, where Lambert — alongsi Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madonna and Queen Latifah — livered a powerful performance of the song that saw gay and heterosexual upl get married on live televisn.

SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?

Macklemore isn't subtle about the fact that "Same Love" is a pro-gay anthem, even clarg his own stance the song's send verse: "No eedom till we're equal/ damn right, I support . He also the vers to ll out those who don't, cludg "right-wg nservativ" and relig groups, as well as those who e the term "gay" a rogatory sense.

Acrdg to New York Tim, "Same Love" was "the first song to explicly embrace and promote gay marriage that has ma to the Top 40, " per gay rights activists and rad executiv.

MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”

In a 2014 op-ed for The New Republic, wrer Brandon Ambroso said that while he enjoys the song, he felt sends the wrong msage about beg gay. "The aversn to that word [choice] our muny stems om belief that if we n't prove that our gayns is blogilly termed, then we won't have grounds to mand equaly, " said Ambroso.

While some felt Macklemore's outwardly pro-gay stance seemed performative, others found that me earnt, and unlike anythg prevly on mastream rad. "Macklemore's lyrics offered an idsyncratic perspective on homophobia hip-hop and Amerin society at large, cricizg both wh a mixture of gentlens and firmns that I had not heard before, " Slate's J.

"A straight whe guy performg a good ally song has an element of ches, but I thk gay rights have progrsed so astronomilly fast, that people fet the impact the song had, " Lambert says. The documentary chronicled the sger's 1990 Blond Ambn World Tour, but 's often hailed for champng the LGBTQIA+ muny sce shows Madonna and her dancers attendg a Pri para and gay men sually discsg sex.

MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS

Toppg the charts over 30 untri, "Vogue" shed a light on a flamboyant style of dance stemmg om Harlem's 1960s ballroom muny led by Black and Lato gay men.

Madonna has supported gay rights, phed sexual eedom, implemented relig imagery, and rhaped femism at a time when wasn't trendy to do so. Mic has always been a safe haven for gay and trans people of all kds — om the closeted kids Middle Ameri fdg sanctuary the songs of their favore pop stars, to the out-and-proud artists formg the soundtrack for the next generatn of LGBTQIA+ fans. A rash of anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn has swept through state legislatur across the untry, om so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bills to blatant legal attacks on drag queens, trans kids and LGBTQIA+ history as a whole — but those who stand for the muny are fightg even harr.

As Pri month rri on, has round up a list of ne LGBTQIA+ artists, alli and bonafi gay ins who've ma advotg for the muny a central te of their mic, their words and their actns. " The gay anthem's celebratory mic vio issued a ll to actn for her fans to support the as-yet-unpassed Equaly Act wh her very own petn.

INSI MACKLEMORE’S CSA FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Famoly, Her Madgty's love for the gay muny started wh her early mentor and dance teacher Christopher Flynn. Early her reer, she beme one of the first artists to speak out about the HIV/AIDS crisis and cry the stigmatizatn of gay people at the time.

She's been regnized by the GLAAD Media Awards multiple tim, cludg 1991 wh the Raisg Gay Awarens award and 2019 wh the Advote for Change award.

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS’ GAY EQUALY ANTHEM HS TOP 20 ON HOT 100

Long nsired a gay in her own right, Beyoncé paid reverential honor to the LGBTQIA+ muny and her late uncle Johnny wh 2022's Renaissance, an undulatg magnum op spired by the unrground ballroom scene sparked by Black, trans and gay pneers of the 1970s, '80s, '90s, and beyond.

Sayg his four "hella gay" uncl were an fluence, Macklemore relled, "I thk that lookg at the hip-hop muny, and holdg myself acuntable the hip-hop muny, was what I red about. "Still, he says he believ the tis are turng as far as the hip-hop world's stance on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny is ncerned: "The last year has gotten a lot better, but for so long, was jt an issue that nobody touched on. Many onle ers wonred whether Macklemore, the man behd hs such as “Thrift Shop, ” was gay after the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song “Same Love” about marriage equaly was released.

” Handler that pot, the Seattle rapper, 30, explaed that if Google Search ers type “is” or “Macklemore” to the search text box, one of the first thgs that up reads, “Is Macklemore gay. “We met on Myspace, ” Lewis told the talk-show Handler jokgly wonred whether anyone still ed Myspace, Macklemore threw his hands up the air and said, “All right, fe, we’re gay! ” And she quipped, “That do sound pretty gay, ” which led the “Thrift Shop” star to bow his head once aga and say, “Y.

STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM

Macklemore took to the Grammy stage January wh Madonna to perform their pro-gay equaly anthem Same Love featurg sger Mary Lambert.