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Contents:
- THREAD: DMX IS GAY/BISEXUAL(PROOF SI)
- HIP HOP’S HOMOPHOBIA AND BLACK GAY AMERI’S SILENCE
- HIP-HOP’S MOST ANTI-GAY LYRICS
- DMX WANTS YOU TO KNOW HE’S NOT GAY!
THREAD: DMX IS GAY/BISEXUAL(PROOF SI)
How did DMX's blatantly homophobic 2003 h, "Where The Hood At? I show no love, to homo thugs. But that's not all: DMX hat homosexuals and crossdrsers so much he featur them promently the vio for this song as ridicule.
How did DMX get away wh such a blatantly, genuely homophobic banger? As ltered wh a tly shockg brand of misogyny and homophobia as his songs uld be, they were also ventive how they took the vlent fantasi of subgenr like gangster rap and transformed them to mic lan wh vulnerabily about Simmons’s own spirual travails and mental-health stggl. Or when she spoke at lbian and gay rights ralli or jumped on the classroom table to get her stunts’ attentn at San Francis State Universy, where she was a profsor of munitns, the first open lbian hired there a tenure-track posn.
HIP HOP’S HOMOPHOBIA AND BLACK GAY AMERI’S SILENCE
In 1978, she helped change history when she and Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor, led a mpaign agast the Briggs Iniative, a state bill that aimed to ban gay men and lbians om teachg public schools.
Soon thereafter, Hormel me out to his fay members as gay.
HIP-HOP’S MOST ANTI-GAY LYRICS
He beme a philanthropist, wh a specific foc on gay equaly and rights, givg more than $15 ln to L. Over his life and tablishg himself as one of the most genero gay donors U. “The early ’90s were still a time when we’d e out to iends and fay and were often met wh rejectn, ” says Kari Hong, who me out as gay her first year at Swarthmore and is now an immigratn attorney.
Hormel was poised to be Ameri’s first openly gay ambassador, and Senate Republins objected to his nomatn not bee of his lack of foreign-policy experience — awardg ambassadorships to polil ntributors was a bipartisan practice — but bee of his sexualy. Hormel, Senator Jam Inhofe of Oklahoma warned, was “a gay activist who puts his agenda ahead of the agenda of Ameri.
DMX WANTS YOU TO KNOW HE’S NOT GAY!
Sudnly, the issue of who served a sleepy ambassadorship was transformed to an important stggle over gay rights. Swarthmore stunts to attend a chary gala for a Philalphia gay-rights group.
“We liked to joke that when I was a sophomore, ” Araque says, “Jam was a senr. Gay marriage was legalized California the same year, and 2014, Hormel and Araque were wed a ceremony officiated by Nancy Pelosi.
The role that followed — Omar “The Wire, ” a gay Black man who wield a shotgun agast his enemi — gave visibily to a form of Black masculy rarely seen on TV. Berlant articulated, wh ndor and passn, how livg unr palism, racism, misogyny and homophobia meant masterg life as a seri of promis and ncsns.