Was Prce a gay ally? The sger's plited LGBTQ legacy

Contents:

• TURNS OUT PRCE WAS A GAY-BASHG HOMOPHOBE
• PRCE IRATE AFTER ALLEGATNS HE’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE
• PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT
• MARV GAYE'S DGHTER WILL NEVER FIVE PRCE
• RNCHY PRCE WAS ACTUALLY A NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN WHO REPORTEDLY OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE
• PRCE'S SUPPOSED ANTI-GAY STANCE WAS A B CONFG, LIKE THE MAN HIMSELF

TURNS OUT PRCE WAS A GAY-BASHG HOMOPHOBE

He even helped wre and produce her 1993 album, Carmen Electra GayeGiul Marcchi/Getty Imag Entertament/Getty ImagPrce dated Nona Gaye, dghter of sger Marv Gaye, for three years startg when she was 18.

But was Prce gay? Maybe he wasn’t so fortable wh his sexualy, after Prce gay?

Here’s what Prce told the New Yorker’s Claire Hoffman 2008 on the issue of homosexualy and God.

PRCE IRATE AFTER ALLEGATNS HE’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE

“When asked about his perspective on social issu—gay marriage, abortn—Prce tapped his Bible and said, ‘God me to earth and saw people stickg wherever and dog wh whatever, and he jt cleared all out. Check out for artist was fairly quiet on homosexual issu after that pot, even clg to discs matters like same-sex marriage.

Then, 2013, the track ‘Da Bourgeoise’ surfaced, a track cricized for beg anti-LGBT and homophobic (specifilly reference to a lbian affair):Yterday I saw you kick’ wh another girl You was all wrapped up around her waist Last time I checked, you said you left the dirty world Well appears that wasn’t the se Hey, I see you unrver like the CIA Snatchg ltle wigs om another bouquet – that’s French I gus a man’s only good for a ray day Maybe your jt another beard lady at the baret I wish I never kissed your [sps disgt] ugh Don’t replace the memory Prce beme a Jehovah’s Wns 2001, a relign that regards homosexualy as a s. Addnal readg:Joe Jervis, ‘Prce Com Out (As Anti-Gay)‘The Atlantic, ‘Prce Is a Homophobe‘Rabow flag image by torbakhopper, adapted (wh purple ‘X’) (CC by 2.

PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT

Prce passed away on April 21, 2016, leavg behd a actured relatnship wh the gay and wir LGBTQ+ muny which had once held him so arly.

Prce left fans wonrg whether he was gay or straight. For a while Prce dodged qutns about his own inty, askg: “Am I Black or whe / Am I straight or gay?

Prce’s gay bandmate claimed he told her to reject her lbian inty. Melvo told the Tribune 2004: “He cled bee of my homosexualy and the fact I’m half-Jewish. Prce acced of homophobia after appearg to dismiss same-sex marriage 2008.

MARV GAYE'S DGHTER WILL NEVER FIVE PRCE

Prce was acced of homophobia aga followg ments he ma to The New Yorker 2008. “She probably was askg him about California repealg gay marriage, and he’s had his own bad luck wh marriage.

She said, "Are you gay? "Rnchy Prce was actually a nservative Christian who opposed gay marriage, " read one headle published Friday the Washgton Post. "Prce's alleged anti-gay stance is bafflg, for good reason, " asserted the onle women's magaze Btle.

RNCHY PRCE WAS ACTUALLY A NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN WHO REPORTEDLY OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE

If a man has sex wh other men, don't that make him gay?

PRCE'S SUPPOSED ANTI-GAY STANCE WAS A B CONFG, LIKE THE MAN HIMSELF

In the article, Prce was scribed as potg at his Bible while renouncg Democrat and Republin approach to gay marriage legislatn — a quote his mp hotly ntted. "Idk about his genr inty, but he was agast gay marriage, " one menter rpond.

An even more ample body of lerature monstrat that sexual orientatn — a person's self-reported inty on a sle of straight to gay — is fluid; n change over time. No straight, no gay. Am I black or whe, am I straight or gay?