Top-sellg rap artist Macklemore’s h song “Same Love” hip-hop to promote marriage equaly. 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? The were some of the qutns addrsed profsor Chadwick Robert’s Out to Lunch...
Contents:
- I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
- IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
- MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
- MACKLEMORE AFFECTS GAY MUNY
- SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
Macklemore took to the Grammy stage January wh Madonna to perform their pro-gay equaly anthem Same Love featurg sger Mary Lambert. Macklemore and Lewis wrote the song durg the mpaign… * macklemore lgbt *
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.
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?
IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
"Same Love" rapper Macklemore said he is not gay, spe what Inter mors might lead people to believe. * macklemore lgbt *
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 ?
” (As if homosexualy was taken out of the DSM only to be wrten to the ADA. 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, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
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Macklemore said more people hip-hop have realised that “hatred and homophobia don’t serve anybody”. Macklemore has said there’s been “immense growth” around LGBTQ+ acceptance hip-hop as more people realise that “hatred and homophobia don’t serve anybody”. “We are expandg, we are growg and we are realisg that hatred and homophobia don’t serve anybody, ” Macklemore said.
“No, you don’t need to be homophobic. When wrg “Same Love”, Macklemore was partially spired by the experienc of his gay fay members, who are mentned the first l of the song.
MACKLEMORE AFFECTS GAY MUNY
Jake Reed fends Macklemore’s song “Same Love” as an attempt to draw support and attentn to the LGBT e and admonish the gay muny for rejectg a supporter bee of his straight stat. * macklemore lgbt *
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.
SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
Contrary to speculatn, Macklemore isn't gay. Many fans had assumed the rapper was after he released the song 'Same Love', which talks about legalisg same-sex marriage. The vio for the song was featured YouTube's Pri Week. I an terview wh Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately, Macklemore acknowledged the mours about his sexualy, but nfirmed that he was engaged to long-term girliend Tricia Davis." name="scriptn * macklemore lgbt *
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.
WATCH: Macklemore On The Very Personal Inspiratn Behd His Gay Marriage Anthem * macklemore lgbt *
” 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”.