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• US SGER FRANK OCEAN SUED BY OWN FATHER OVER LGBT RIGHTSFRANK OCEAN, THE HIP-HOP STAR HAILED FOR HIS ARTISTIC SENSIVY, IS FACG A LAWSU OM HIS OWN FATHER AFTER THE SGER CRICISED HIM A PLEA FOR LGBT RIGHTS.US SGER AND HIP-HOP TRAILBLAZER, FRANK OCEAN. SOURCE: AMAZONIN AN ANGRY LAWSU FILED THURSDAY, OCEAN'S TRANGED FATHER SOUGHT $14.5 LN OM THE POP STAR, SAYG THAT HIS SON'S MENTS MA HIM LOSE WORK OPPORTUNI.OCEAN, WHO BEME A HIP-HOP TRAILBLAZER 2012 WHEN HE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS FIRST LOVE BEG A MAN, MA THE MENTS AN SAY SHORTLY AFTER THE JUNE MASSACRE AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO.RELATED:PRI SHABBAT HONOURS JEWISH LGBTIQ MUNYHOW MARRIAG OF NVENIENCE ARE BEG EMBRACED BY CHA'S LGBT MUNY"I WAS SIX YEARS OLD WHEN I HEARD MY DAD LL OUR TRANSGENR WARS A FAGGOT AS HE DRAGGED ME OUT A NEIGHBOURHOOD DER SAYG WE WOULDN'T BE SERVED BEE SHE WAS DIRTY," HE WROTE ON TUMBLR."THAT WAS THE LAST AFTERNOON I SAW MY FATHER AND THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THAT WORD, I THK, ALTHOUGH WOULDN'T SHOCK ME IF WASN'T."CALV COOKSEY, THE 29-YEAR-OLD SGER'S FATHER, NIED THE CINT AND ACCED OCEAN OF DISRPECTG BOTH CHRISTIANY AND ISLAM FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE SAY WHICH HE WROTE OF GLOBAL PERSECUTN OF THE LGBT MUNY.OCEAN HAS "AN EVIL MISPLACED HATE FOR HIS FATHER," THE LAWSU SAID, WRG THAT THE BIBLE NMNED NOT ONLY "HOMOSEXUAL S" BUT ALSO "DISRPECTG THY FATHER."COOKSEY SAID HE HAD BEEN WORKG ON A CRIME THRILLER MOVIE LLED "PART OF THE GAME" WHOSE MERCIAL PROSPECTS WERE STROYED BY HIS SON'S MENTS.COOKSEY, WHO HAS LTLE RELATNSHIP WH HIS SON AND IS NOT KNOWN TO HAVE STEADY WORK, EARLIER UNSUCCSFULLY SUED THE HIP-HOP MOGUL RSELL SIMMONS WHO LLED OCEAN'S FATHER A ADBEAT.OCEAN WON WI ACCLAIM FOR HIS 2012 BUT ALBUM "CHANNEL ORANGE," WH HIS SMOOTH, GENTLE VOICE AND REFLECTIVE LYRICISM STANDG OUT THE OFTEN MACHO WORLD OF HIP-HOP.HIS LONG-AWAED FOLLOW-UP, "BLON," ME OUT AUGT.IN UNUAL MOV, OCEAN RELEASED THE ALBUM ON HIS OWN AND CHOSE NOT TO SUBM FOR NSIRATN AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS, WHERE HE HAS BEEN A FAVOURE.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 4 FEBARY 2017 2:39PMSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
• FRANK OCEAN PENS TOUCHG ESSAY TO LGBT COMMUNY FOLLOWG DEADLY ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB ATTACKS
• IS FRANK OCEAN GAY?

US SGER FRANK OCEAN SUED BY OWN FATHER OVER LGBT RIGHTSFRANK OCEAN, THE HIP-HOP STAR HAILED FOR HIS ARTISTIC SENSIVY, IS FACG A LAWSU OM HIS OWN FATHER AFTER THE SGER CRICISED HIM A PLEA FOR LGBT RIGHTS.US SGER AND HIP-HOP TRAILBLAZER, FRANK OCEAN. SOURCE: AMAZONIN AN ANGRY LAWSU FILED THURSDAY, OCEAN'S TRANGED FATHER SOUGHT $14.5 LN OM THE POP STAR, SAYG THAT HIS SON'S MENTS MA HIM LOSE WORK OPPORTUNI.OCEAN, WHO BEME A HIP-HOP TRAILBLAZER 2012 WHEN HE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS FIRST LOVE BEG A MAN, MA THE MENTS AN SAY SHORTLY AFTER THE JUNE MASSACRE AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO.RELATED:PRI SHABBAT HONOURS JEWISH LGBTIQ MUNYHOW MARRIAG OF NVENIENCE ARE BEG EMBRACED BY CHA'S LGBT MUNY"I WAS SIX YEARS OLD WHEN I HEARD MY DAD LL OUR TRANSGENR WARS A FAGGOT AS HE DRAGGED ME OUT A NEIGHBOURHOOD DER SAYG WE WOULDN'T BE SERVED BEE SHE WAS DIRTY," HE WROTE ON TUMBLR."THAT WAS THE LAST AFTERNOON I SAW MY FATHER AND THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THAT WORD, I THK, ALTHOUGH WOULDN'T SHOCK ME IF WASN'T."CALV COOKSEY, THE 29-YEAR-OLD SGER'S FATHER, NIED THE CINT AND ACCED OCEAN OF DISRPECTG BOTH CHRISTIANY AND ISLAM FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE SAY WHICH HE WROTE OF GLOBAL PERSECUTN OF THE LGBT MUNY.OCEAN HAS "AN EVIL MISPLACED HATE FOR HIS FATHER," THE LAWSU SAID, WRG THAT THE BIBLE NMNED NOT ONLY "HOMOSEXUAL S" BUT ALSO "DISRPECTG THY FATHER."COOKSEY SAID HE HAD BEEN WORKG ON A CRIME THRILLER MOVIE LLED "PART OF THE GAME" WHOSE MERCIAL PROSPECTS WERE STROYED BY HIS SON'S MENTS.COOKSEY, WHO HAS LTLE RELATNSHIP WH HIS SON AND IS NOT KNOWN TO HAVE STEADY WORK, EARLIER UNSUCCSFULLY SUED THE HIP-HOP MOGUL RSELL SIMMONS WHO LLED OCEAN'S FATHER A ADBEAT.OCEAN WON WI ACCLAIM FOR HIS 2012 BUT ALBUM "CHANNEL ORANGE," WH HIS SMOOTH, GENTLE VOICE AND REFLECTIVE LYRICISM STANDG OUT THE OFTEN MACHO WORLD OF HIP-HOP.HIS LONG-AWAED FOLLOW-UP, "BLON," ME OUT AUGT.IN UNUAL MOV, OCEAN RELEASED THE ALBUM ON HIS OWN AND CHOSE NOT TO SUBM FOR NSIRATN AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS, WHERE HE HAS BEEN A FAVOURE.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 4 FEBARY 2017 2:39PMSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

The journalists who have been burned by broken promis and the fans who have eagerly awaed Ocean’s sophomore album have nmned the sger as outrageoly, unnecsarily evasive.

Ocean’s sexualy is, as he scrib , “dynamic”—a self-asssment that hasn’t stopped journalists om pigeonholg him as bisexual or gay. ” By refg to claim an inty, he rerv the right to nstantly is not to say that Blon fully evas the qutn of homosexualy. In “Good Guy, ” Ocean croons about beg taken on a date to a “gay bar.

It’s the kd of irreverence and mutabily that mak Ocean such a difficult gay in, and such an trigug queer one.

FRANK OCEAN PENS TOUCHG ESSAY TO LGBT COMMUNY FOLLOWG DEADLY ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB ATTACKS

Frank do not seem cled to take on any rponsibili as the hip-hop world’s pre-ement gay artist—a label he’s never claimed and do not seem likely to. While he wrote eloquently and openly on the Orlando Pulse shootg, Blon don’t nta any siarly polil gay statements or logi. To fe onelf leads to prsur and rponsibili—to produce another Channel Orange, or to pen the next gay anthem.

Hip-hop has never had a gay superstar. As a muny, the hip-hop world is still plagued by homophobia, and prohibive molds of masculy. ” While Young Thug’s remarks triggered a b of a backlash, wh hip-hop fans and media outlets mg on his sexualy, there also seemed to be an creasg unrstandg that queerns isn’t synonymo wh homosexualy.

IS FRANK OCEAN GAY?

By makg stairs, shootg film, and producg magaz, Ocean fi the rapper label jt as he shirks a gay or bisexual intifitn. By liberately refg to be known as a gay rapper or a bisexual man hip-hop, Ocean n partially skirt the homophobic bias that the hip-hop muny n’t seem to shake.