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Contents:

• IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
• I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
• MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
• SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
• INSI MACKLEMORE’S CSA FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• MACKLEMORE AFFECTS GAY MUNY
• LAST NIGHT ON LATE NIGHT: MACKLEMORE ADDRSED THOSE GAY INTER RUMORS

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.

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!

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

A seven-mute plea for tolerance (namely polics and hip hop), the track has oted Gaga’s "Born This Way" as pop mic's premiere Gay Battle Cry, rightly nmng "right wg nservativ [who] thk 's a cisn, and you n be cured wh some treatment and relign.

MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER

It’s time for the LGBT muny to stop fearg the word “choice, ” and to reclaim the digny of sexual aversn to that word 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. Perhaps the L and G factns of our muny would do well to follow the polil lead of the Bs and Ts on this of the reasons I thk our activism is so sistent on sexual rigidy is bee, our ph to make gay rights the new black rights, we’ve nflated the two issu. Argug that gayns is as geilly fixed as race might have bolstered our rhetoric a few years ago, but is necsary to argue that way now?

I unrstand that the geic argument for homosexualy is a direct rponse to the tired “You weren’t born that way” rhetoric of relig people.

SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?

And sofar as enurag many straight and gay people alike to be open to nontradnal forms of love, I hope he keeps sgg for many years to, whenever the song shuffl across my iPod, I n’t help wonrg whether Macklemore would have thought I served a song even if I told him that I uld, fact, change this if I tried, if I wanted to. Macklemore took to the Grammy stage January wh Madonna to perform their pro-gay equaly anthem Same Love featurg sger Mary Lambert.

INSI MACKLEMORE’S CSA FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Their tentns are well meang: the song’s msage is tend to read that gay and straight love is one the same, but the realy is much more nuanced. Same Love almost certaly wouldn’t have gotten so much attentn had they not been, for the fact that the are men who live outsi of the world of the mori that might have been expected to produce a pro-gay rap. In fact, there’s an entire sub-genre of hip-hop posed of queer artists known as “Homo Hop, ” which Haggerty pletely ignor wh his lyric, “If I were gay, I would thk hip-hop hat me.

”It’s possible that both he and DeGener were eher unaware of the genre at the time or that they perhaps meant mastream hip hop, ’s not as if other rap artists haven’t spoken publicly favor for gay rights. Jay-Z spoke of his feelgs about the fight agast gay marriage a 2012 terview on CNN that he’s, “…always thought as somethg that was still…holdg the untry back.

It’s discrimatn, pla and black rap artists, cludg Kanye Wt, Nicki Maj, and Queen Latifah addnally have voiced their support for gay rights, but none have received nearly the attentn Haggerty has.

MACKLEMORE AFFECTS GAY MUNY

Jamion Cox, a gay mic ntributor for Buzzfeed wr, “A lot of people would rather see queer rappers given equal media treatment stead of all the foc on yet another straight whe du. ” Black and openly gay rapper Le1f (who himself often raps about beg gay) that Haggerty ripped off his song Wut their massively succsful song Thrift Shop. In a seri of now-leted tweets om his personal Twter acunt, Le1f angrily wrote of, “that time that straight whe du ripped off my song then ma a vio about gay terracial love and ma a ln dollars.

In the first verse of Same Love, he reunts the fears over his sexualy he had growg up and the need for reassurance that he was straight, rappg:When I was the third gra I thought that I was gay, / ‘Cse I uld draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight. / I told my mom, tears shg down my face/She’s like “Ben you've loved girls sce before pre-k, tripp’ uld argue that he’s simply givg ntext as to his ally stat, but he do so a way as if to beg the dience to, “please believe me when I say I’m not gay”.

He often stat his sexualy durg terviews, an example of which om his appearance on Chelsea Lately mentng, “If you type ‘Macklemore’… and you type ‘is’, ‘Macklemore gay’ pops up.

LAST NIGHT ON LATE NIGHT: MACKLEMORE ADDRSED THOSE GAY INTER RUMORS

” Constantly assertg himself as straight sentially stat that not only is there somethg herently wrong wh beg gay, but that ’s somethg so unsirable that one should feel the need to separate is pecially pound when he the homophobic slur “faggot” the send verse, a word that many fd troublome or hurtful when ed by a straight person regardls of tent.

Cox wr, “It would take an credibly cynil person to thk that Macklemore is attemptg to ri a wave of creasg acceptance of homosexualy to mercial succs. Even this, though, brgs up the argument among some the muny of whether we should be fightg for gay marriage the first place.

Macklemore then explaed that he first met Lewis on social workg se Myspace and after a b of jtg om host Chelsea Handler, he threw his hands up and joked: "Fe, we’re gay! ‘Man, that’s gay’ gets dropped on the daily, ” rapper Macklemore says on his strintly pro-gay “Same Love” that’s been blowg up the mic and LGBT blogosphere. And at a time when hip-hop is unrgog a sea change on how als wh homosexualy, pecially light of Frank Ocean’s pathbreakg revelatn of his own bisexualy this summer.

The genre has been cricized sce s ceptn for s homophobia and sexism, wh s emphasis on aggrsive masculy and liberal e of the other f-word, and there was a time when would be almost impossible to image a succsful gay hip-hop artist. “Almost every synopsis of Frank, the 24-year-old sger-songwrer who’s eher gay or bisexual, fixat on his ambiguy, " Vibe’s Clover Hope wr. And Obama seemed to brg a chunk of the black muny wh him, which should only make easier for gay hip -hop artists the future.

Lately I have noticed hostily wh the gay muny toward our straight alli, both through the Tumblr and the Facebook posts of a few select iends.

Moarily, I hope that the rapper donated at least some of the song’s profs to a charable Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr (LGBT) e.