Seattle Rapper Macklemore Talks Growg Up Catholic Wh Gay Uncl - Macklemore

Contents:

• SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
• IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
• I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
• FUSE TV - SEATTLE RAPPER MACKLEMORE TALKS GROWG UP CATHOLIC WH GAY UNCL
• MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ADDRS SEXUALY: “FE, WE'RE GAY!”
• MACKLEMORE AFFECTS GAY MUNY

SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?

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.

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

“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.

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.

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. 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.

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

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. Wh that md, should we ntue to believe that people will only accept our gayns if they are ma to believe we didn’t choose ?

FUSE TV - SEATTLE RAPPER MACKLEMORE TALKS GROWG UP CATHOLIC WH GAY UNCL

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. Seattle Rapper Macklemore Talks Growg Up Catholic Wh Gay Uncl Earlier this year, Macklemore released the touchg pro-gay marriage track "Same Love.

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

" When Fe talked wh him at Lollapalooza 2012, the Seattle rapper—who is straight, BTW—revealed that the homophobic tennci of his mil and relig backgrounds ma him want to tackle the subject. I grew up the Catholic Church, I grew up wh two gay uncl and a gay godfather, and I grew up the hip hop muny.

So the Catholic Church and hip hop muny are known as beg very homophobic muni a lot of ways, " Macklemore says. "I touched on g om that perspective, and also g om the perspective of havg gay people my fay and seeg exampl of mted, betiful relatnships that have gone on for the last 20, 30 years.

"Dpe his progrsive attu, Macklemore adms he and his producer Ryan Lewis ed to ll thgs "gay" until recently. Uncle Ed's Bucket List Gay Pri for the Gay Bri Soundcloud Rappers Universy Plastic Surgery Talks Wh Dr. In 2014, the duo won four Grammys, cludg the prize for Bt New Artist, and released their sophomore effort This Unly Ms I've Ma two years later.

MACKLEMORE AFFECTS GAY MUNY

terview, gay, equaly, same love, lgbt, llaboratn, macklemore, ryan lewis, chelsea handler, chelsea lately, london, newssk. 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!

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

In a song that discs gay rights a largely black-domated genre, we n’t certaly n’t discs one whout the other. 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.

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. Haggerty mpaigns that beg gay is ok, he mak a ncerted effort to prove to his dience that he isn’t gay.

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.

” 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.

But, as a straight, whe, middle-class man, do Macklemore have the right to make money off the gay rights movement or even ll himself a hip-hop artist?