Hip-Hop Artists Who Embrace Beg Gay, Lbian or Bisexual - XXL

Contents:

• 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• DISCUSSION WHY ALL YOUR FAVORE RAPPERS ARE SECRETLY NOT SO SECRETLY GAY

29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY

Tim ntue to change Hollywood and around the the past uple years, more and more celebri have e out of the closet as plenty of other celebri have been acced of beg gay. This all stemmed om a sce-leted CNN iReport (a lame subsectn of the media outlet prisg “cizen journalists” om around the world) that read: “The famo pop-star Bno Mars adms his homosexualy. So ’s a ltle hard when you go home and people are like – and that’s why people thk I’m gay – bee they’re like ‘Why aren’t you married?

Jam Fran has played many gay men on screen, but: “There are lots of other reasons to be terted gay characters than wantg myself to go out and have sex wh guys, ” he once told Entertament Weekly. Former Jersey Shore -star and hoemate, Snooki, said the past of The Suatn: “He told me one time, ‘[All the gay talk is] makg me wonr. Hogan’s ex-wife, Lda, once said the wrtler had an affair wh former WWE sta Bt Beefke, to which Hogan said::Jt to say somethg speful and hurtful, I don’t get …if was te and I was gay, I’d embrace , and I’d tell you guys about and I’d celebrate .

We saw Snoop Dogg's famo 2013 terview wh The Guardian, when the "G and Juice" rapper claimed, "[Homosexualy is] acceptable the sgg world, but the rap world I don't know if will ever be acceptable bee rap is so mascule.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Odd Future has long been cricized for s homophobic lyrics, so much so that the band was booted om Atralia's massive Big Day Out ftival 2011, acrdg to Billboard. In Ocean's letter, which was origally meant to be clud the "Channel Orange" ler not, the rapper spoke about havg his first gay romance at the age of 19.

Nohels, the Odd Future DJ wasn't exactly accepted to the gay muny, particularly nsirg Odd Future's ntroversial history (Tyler the Creator the word "f****t" 200 tim on "Gobl" alone).

1 but on the Billboard 200, and a multi-ln dollar rerd al wh RCA, which ontman Kev Abstract claimed was gog to help them ph their "gay agenda. "I'd see negative ments and fet [beg gay] was a big al to some people, that some people hadn't heard before, " he told ShortList.

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

Sheran has sce parted ways wh Drake, who helped him nab a Grammy nomatn, but he ma an even bigger impact on his own when he me out as gay on Twter 2017. By 2015, the rapper felt like people still didn't get the ht and took to Twter to air her grievanc followg an onslght of accatns claimg she was homophobic.

However, her work still feels radil rather than regrsive, bee Young MA is one of the few outspokenly gay members of the greater hip-hop muny.

DISCUSSION WHY ALL YOUR FAVORE RAPPERS ARE SECRETLY NOT SO SECRETLY GAY

The star knew she was gay sce her first year of school, but nied to her mother until she me out — to the support of her fay — when she was 18 years old. "There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls exprsg themselv; I'm not the first to say , I'm not the first to rap about , " she told The Guardian.

Mykki Blan told Pl that his father knew he was gay sce he was 3 years old, though he didn't e out publicly till much later. He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh .