Is Frank Ocean Gay? :: Indie Shuffle

Contents:

• FRANK OCEAN: ‘I CRIED THE NIGHT I ME OUT AS GAY’
• FUSE TV - TYLER, THE CREATOR KNEW FRANK OCEAN WAS GAY BEE OF HIS SNACK PREFERENC
• FRANK OCEAN IS GAY? FANS REACT AFTER LEARNG OF ALLEGED HOMOSEXUALY
• IS FRANK OCEAN GAY?
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

FRANK OCEAN: ‘I CRIED THE NIGHT I ME OUT AS GAY’

On “We All Try, ” the third track om his 2011 but mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA, he voiced support for gay marriage four years before beme legal natnwi:. The night the album dropped, Frank appeared on Late Night Wh Jimmy Fallon to but the song “Bad Relign, ” which ntas the most overt discsn of a gay relatnship on the album.

Frank ma a brief but important return June 21, 2016 after the Pulse Nightclub shootg Orlando, Fl., when he spoke out agast stutnal homophobia our society wh an emotnal Tumblr post, reflectg a siar msage to that of “Bad Relign. On the song “Skyle To, ” Frank returns to the ia of relig nmnatn of homosexualy while sgg about a sexual experience wh another man:. Frank was raised the South, where sayg someone has “sugar their step” or “sugar their tank” is slang for llg them gay.

Next June will mark 50 years sce the morn gay rights movement igned, kdled by the Stonewall rts. The New York Tim wouldn’t e the word “gay” for another two s. Today, newspapers monly police their pag for the slightt whiff of homophobia.

FUSE TV - TYLER, THE CREATOR KNEW FRANK OCEAN WAS GAY BEE OF HIS SNACK PREFERENC

Yet, even far more benighted tim, mic nveyed the s and emotns of genr nonnformists Pri month, here’s a selective playlist featurg those rerdgs that bt exprs both gay yearngs and society’s chang, over the last century. Later, beme a jazz standard, wh lyrics that pivoted on an antique meang of the word “gay”. Gene Howard – The Man I Love (1962)In the early 60s, a straight sger who sang wh Stan Kenton’s band generoly agreed to voice an album tend for a gay dience on which he scerely serenad another man wh some of the most passnate love songs ever wrten.

It beme a cult em, beloved by stars like Frank Satra and Liberace, as well as gay dienc on the east and wt asts.

FRANK OCEAN IS GAY? FANS REACT AFTER LEARNG OF ALLEGED HOMOSEXUALY

In the years sce, the album has been unearthed as an early gay treasure. The Kks – Lola (1970)Ray Davi’s empathetic, and acceptg, story of a cross-drser proved so pellg, beme a top 10 smash, even an fely more homophobic time. The simultaneoly proud – and paed – mic Bowie wrote to match his words turned Dus to an anthem for all gay rock fans.

IS FRANK OCEAN GAY?

Jobriath – Take Me I’m Yours (1974)The first “openly gay” rocker who was actually gay, Jobriath embraced BDSM this cheeky cult fave.

Rod Stewart – The Killg of Geie Parts I and II (1976)Y, Stewart’s classic dulged a hoary gay cliche by endg tragedy. Photograph: PAJt as Stt McKenzie’s San Francis (Be Sure to Wear Flowers Your Hair) lured hippi wt 1967, this Village People classic functned as a wele mat for gay people at the muny’s adopted homeland by the bay. Elton John – Elton’s Song (1979)At the mercial nadir of his reer – five years after he me out as bisexual and more than a before he e out as a gay man – Elton released the most poignant queer song of his reer.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

Co-wrten wh Tom Robson (of Glad to be Gay fame), Elton’s Song told the sad tale of a young boy’s hopels csh on another boy. Pete Townshend – Rough Boys (1980)Townshend’s randy song, which ught him longg to “be and kiss” a rough tra punk, exposed the homoeroticism that unrli so much rock’n’roll. Photograph: David Redfern/RedfernsBoth the song and vio for Boy nonted dienc wh the pa and shame of gay bashg.