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It is publicly known (and Tyler’s que proud about ) that he is gay. He was mored datg his bt iend, Jayn Smh. Who is Tyler, the Creator current boyiend?

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IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?

” In honor of that remix, we cid to take a look at five of our favore Tyler, the Creator gay lyrics (and more broadly queer lyrics, too).

5 Tyler, the Creator gay lyrics that’ll leave no doubt he’s a queer hip-hop star. We had to start our list of favore Tyler, the creator gay lyrics wh his newt.

We particularly love this b om “Garn Shed, ” his llaboratn wh Estelle, which Tyler, the Creator jok about the monly held belief (mostly by disappoted parents) that homosexualy is “jt a phase. Pl, this lyric slyly the word “poof, ” Brish slang for a gay man.

TYLER, THE CREATOR IS OPENLY GAY: WHO IS HIS BOYIEND?

(No homo.

Back then, fact, was assumed Tyler was actually homophobic, due to some of his lyrics. Tyler addrsed that “Domo 23, ” sayg that to monstrate he wasn’t racist or homophobic he grabbed Lus, the whe member of Odd Future, and kissed him. But then Tyler scrib that, though he kissed Lus jt to piss people off, he might be havg feelgs for him — and plays off wh the homophobic le of straight bros everywhere, “No homo.

TYLER, THE CREATOR COM OUT AS GAY ON "GARN SHED"

” He then subverts s ual meang by addg “Too soon, ” implyg ’s too early for a gay relatnship wh Lus, as they hadn’t even had sex yet. Did we miss any of your favore Tyler, the Creator gay lyrics? It’s not easy beg a gay hip-hop fan.

For years, I’ve wrtled wh my love of the mic on one hand wh my distaste for the homophobia embedd wh on the other, grimacg at the tratg ease wh which a rapper is able to say faggot, a hateful word that no straight person has any right to be g. I’ve found this pecially problematic wh the mic of Tyler, the Creator, the 26-year-old provotr whose lyrics have often aimed to shock and repulse, whether addrsg vlence agast women (“Punch a bch her mouth jt for talk’ sh”) or his apparent disgt at gay men (“Come take a stab at , faggot, I pre-orred your sket”). “I’m bummed out bee ’s like, du, I’m not homophobic.

ALL THE TIM TYLER, THE CREATOR POSSIBLY ALLUD TO BEG GAY

This progrsn has e to a crcendo wh his latt album, the dreay melancholic Flower Boy, the tle of which potentially acts as a clue to what might be his most ntroversial statement the rapper who ed the word faggot, or other anti-gay variatns, 213 tim on his but album actually be gay or bisexual himself? In an terview, he once said he “100% would go gay for ’96 Leo”, and a recent Instagram post married a picture of DiCapr om Romeo + Juliet wh the words “y boyiend y” another new track, Garn Shed, there are a number of referenc, both oblique and obv. ”The songs have led fans to turn tectiv by lvg to Tyler’s past terviews, songs and social media posts, surg them for evince that might support the assertn that one of rap’s most seemgly homophobic figur might have been gay all along.

The clu range om the slight to the slightly ’s quipped about dulgg gay sex on tracks like Seven and Domo 23, released a le of T-shirts that reappropriated a symbol of whe supremacy wh rabow lors – oh, and tweeted this out:I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHA— Tyler, The Creator (@tylerthecreator) April 13, 2015. Or is this jt another example of a button-phg attentn-seeker, ridiculg the gay experience for puerile effect?

In a Rollg Stone profile om 2015, the journalist Ernt Baker noted the nstant referenc to beg gay amid the banter of Tyler and his entourage, g him to wonr what exactly was at the root. When queried about , he claimed to be “gay as fuck” and said his iends were ed to him “beg gay”, but when asked outright, he nied ’s clearly somethg fetishistic for Tyler about homosexualy and the latt bout of gay referenc uld jt be a more tempered eratn of llg everyone a faggot or equatg gay wh stupid. I’m not phg the cynil ia that Tyler has “gone gay” to achieve the mercial succs of Ocean, but his msagg has clearly been tailored to avoid limg breakout he is straight, as he has claimed on multiple ocsns, then his ntued obssn wh all thgs gay strik me as schoolyard-level, mirrorg the tirome bag I n rell om straight teens back at school.

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