BROCKHAMPTON's "Gay" Capsule Reprents and Empowers the LGBTQIA+ Communy: Enlistg activists om GLAAD’s Youth Engagement Program for s Kev Abstract-directed and Ashlan Grey-shot lookbook.
Contents:
- A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- IS MATT CHAMPN GAY?
- BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
A Hip-Hop Group Wh An Openly Gay Member Has The #1 Album * which brockhampton members are gay *
How many members of Brockhampton are actually gay? We all know Kev is for sure, but how many members, total, are actually gay? It’s a historic acplishment for a Rap group wh an openly gay member.
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“My goal is jt to normalize , ” he says of rappg about beg gay. In orr to make a change, I have to exist a tradnally homophobic space such as Hip-Hop. Though Hip-Hop is not a plete stranger to varyg gre of sexual orientatn, Kev is certaly the most visible and mercially succsful gay rapper the culture has seen.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Brockhampton's Kev Abstract discs beg openly gay the rap world wh Rad 1's Annie Mac. * which brockhampton members are gay *
Acrdg to Gallup, the timate of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) populatn the Uned Stat rose to 4.
Kev Abstract was behd a microphone a rerdg stud the first time he ever said out loud that he was gay. “Can't tell my mother I'm gay / The harst part of my day is wishg I was fuckg straight / Life uld be so fuckg easy, man, ” he sgs on the track. ” Abstract formed what would eventually bee BROCKHAMPTON at 13 years old, spawng an rap group and art llective unlike anythg precedg CreightonIn a world where you n unt the number of Black, gay rappers on one hand, Abstract stepped—purposefully or not—to the sho of role mol when he began makg mic.
Growg up a Mormon hoehold a suburb north of Hoton (then Corp Christi, then Geia for a while), Abstract didn’t have a lot of Black or gay peers or mentors to look to.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
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“Why you always rap about beg gay? “‘Cse not enough n***** rap and be gay! “I told my mom I was gay, why the fuck she a't listen?
The lyric speaks to his “Papercut” rerdg ssn, before those clost to him knew he was gay. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.
Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.
IS MATT CHAMPN GAY?
But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.
” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.
), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”. ) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver.
BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on.
Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! The other two gay members of Brockhampton?