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- BEASTIE BOYS’ ADAM HORIVZ’S SHOCKG GAY… APARTMENT BUILDG
- STAR TREK BEYOND: BEASTIE BOYS, GAY SULU AND MORE – DISCS WH SPOILERS
- BEASTIE BOY APOLOGIZ FOR PAST LYRICSBEASTIE BOYS, TOM WAS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, NE INCH NAILS, CAKE, TA TURNER, INTERNAL/EXTERNAL, DMX, PULP, EVERCLEAR, MARILYN MANSON, PHISH, EAGL, JA RULE ...BY MTV NEWS STAFFDECEMBER 17, 1999/12:11 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY MTV NEWS STAFFDECEMBER 17, 1999 / 12:11 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"BEASTIE BOY APOLOGIZ FOR PAST LYRICS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"1999-12-17T05:11:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"1999-12-17T05:11:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"MTV NEWS STAFF"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A MEMBER OF THE BEASTIE BOYS WROTE A LETTER TO TIME OUT NEW YORK MAGAZE, APOLOGIZG FOR THE RAP TR'S HOMOPHOBIC PAST, AFTER THE MAGAZE TOOK THE GROUP TO TASK AN ALBUM REVIEW OF A REER ANTHOLOGY, THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE, THE BAND'S SPOKPERSON NFIRMED. "I WOULD LIKE TO ... FORMALLY APOLOGIZE TO THE ENTIRE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY FOR THE SH---Y AND IGNORANT THGS WE SAID ON OUR FIRST RERD, 1986'S LICENSED TO ILL," AD-ROCK (BORN ADAM HOROVZ) WROTE THE DEC. 16 ISSUE OF THE MAGAZE. "THERE ARE NO EXC. BUT TIME HAS HEALED OUR STUPIDY. ... WE HOPE THAT YOU'LL ACCEPT THIS LONG OVERDUE APOLOGY." THE REVIEW OF THE ANTHOLOGY QUTNED WHY THE BEASTI — WHO HAVE CHANGED OFFENSIVE LYRICS OM THE ALBUM'S SONGS NCERT — NEVER ADDRSED SOME OF THE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS ON THEIR BUT ALBUM, WHOSE WORKG TLE, THE BANDMEMBERS HAVE SAID TERVIEWS, WAS DON'T BE A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
BEASTIE BOYS’ ADAM HORIVZ’S SHOCKG GAY… APARTMENT BUILDG
And then a miracle happened: The Beastie Boys heard cricisms about beg misogynistic, homophobic jerks and actually listened to them. Adam ”Ad-Rock” Horovz wrote a letter to Time Out New York publicly apologizg for the homophobic lyrics the tr’s first album, ”Licensed to Ill” (which was origally supposed to be tled ”Don’t Be a Faggot”). ”I would like to… formally apologize to the entire gay and lbian muny for the s—ty and ignorant thgs we said on our first rerd, ” Horovz wrote.
Activists and policians are workg to save a buildg New York’s Greenwich Village that was once owned by Beastie Boy Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovz, claimg ’s a landmark for the cy’s gay muny. “I stand on the shoulrs of legendary activists who lled this 1824 feral-style row hoe home, ” said New York State Senator Tom Duane, the first openly gay and openly HIV-posive elected official the New York Assembly, who attend meetgs at the hoe as a teenager. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #entertament #gayhistory #lgbthistory stori and more.
STAR TREK BEYOND: BEASTIE BOYS, GAY SULU AND MORE – DISCS WH SPOILERS
And, oh yeah, 4) a 1987 article by Doug Simmons, “Yo Homo, ” which quot Adam Horovz sayg “I hate faggots. Yo, Homo.
“[Greenwich Village] is the gay area and I’ve lived here all my life and I hate faggots, ” sps Adrock [Adam Horovz]. “You hate homosexuals?
BEASTIE BOY APOLOGIZ FOR PAST LYRICSBEASTIE BOYS, TOM WAS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, NE INCH NAILS, CAKE, TA TURNER, INTERNAL/EXTERNAL, DMX, PULP, EVERCLEAR, MARILYN MANSON, PHISH, EAGL, JA RULE ...BY MTV NEWS STAFFDECEMBER 17, 1999/12:11 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY MTV NEWS STAFFDECEMBER 17, 1999 / 12:11 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"BEASTIE BOY APOLOGIZ FOR PAST LYRICS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"1999-12-17T05:11:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"1999-12-17T05:11:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"MTV NEWS STAFF"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A MEMBER OF THE BEASTIE BOYS WROTE A LETTER TO TIME OUT NEW YORK MAGAZE, APOLOGIZG FOR THE RAP TR'S HOMOPHOBIC PAST, AFTER THE MAGAZE TOOK THE GROUP TO TASK AN ALBUM REVIEW OF A REER ANTHOLOGY, THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE, THE BAND'S SPOKPERSON NFIRMED. "I WOULD LIKE TO ... FORMALLY APOLOGIZE TO THE ENTIRE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY FOR THE SH---Y AND IGNORANT THGS WE SAID ON OUR FIRST RERD, 1986'S LICENSED TO ILL," AD-ROCK (BORN ADAM HOROVZ) WROTE THE DEC. 16 ISSUE OF THE MAGAZE. "THERE ARE NO EXC. BUT TIME HAS HEALED OUR STUPIDY. ... WE HOPE THAT YOU'LL ACCEPT THIS LONG OVERDUE APOLOGY." THE REVIEW OF THE ANTHOLOGY QUTNED WHY THE BEASTI — WHO HAVE CHANGED OFFENSIVE LYRICS OM THE ALBUM'S SONGS NCERT — NEVER ADDRSED SOME OF THE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS ON THEIR BUT ALBUM, WHOSE WORKG TLE, THE BANDMEMBERS HAVE SAID TERVIEWS, WAS DON'T BE A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
I’ve got a lot of gay iends but…you don’t know what ’s like growg up this neighborhood. What Adam’s talkg about – I’ll give you this, he fely hat gay people – but the reason for that is that this neighborhood, when you’re five years old, when you’re walkg down the street a lot of ‘disgtg’ faggots who hang around here aren’t like jt gay people – normal gay people – all the sickos who are gay hang about on Christopher Street and they see kids and they walk up to them and they say ‘Hey, kid, I’ll give you five bucks if you suck my dick, ’ y’know?