Prce was a bold and darg mil novator, and a fearls challenger of genr boundari. But was Prce gay? This might answer that qutn.
Contents:
- TURNS OUT PRCE WAS A GAY-BASHG HOMOPHOBE
- WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
- PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT
- PRCE: GAY MARRIAGE ISN'T RIGHT
TURNS OUT PRCE WAS A GAY-BASHG HOMOPHOBE
Prce spent his reer celebratg genr fluidy and fyg tegori of straight and gay. * was the artist prince gay *
Whether was his performance of machismo Purple Ra or his liberately feme pantsu on the ver of Esquire, Prce spent his reer celebratg genr fluidy and fyg tegori of straight and gay. Was he gay? Years before the lears of the gay and lbian muny began to embrace a more nuanced, ls bary notn of queerns—and s before transgenr and genrqueer polics beme mastream topics of tert—Prce prented a livg se study the glor eedom a world whout strgent labels might offer.
WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
* was the artist prince gay *
In 2006, gay mician Ruf Wawright wrote the Guardian that Prce’s genrfuckery is still unmatched morn pop mic.
PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT
“It feels weird talkg about Prce as a gay in now, but you have to appld a black man the Amerin rerd dtry who uld be so playful wh androgyny, ” Wawright wrote. Am I straight or gay? On a fom lled Ttosterone Natn— the mcle-buildg way, not the transgenr hormone therapy way—a er by the name of byid neatly summarized the feelgs of thoands of hetero dus who found themselv droolg the dience of a Prce show: “I would go gay for Prce, except I’m not entirely sure Prce has a genr.
He beme a Jehovah’s Wns 2001 and began to sound more volly homophobic as he aged.
The New Yorker asked him about his posns on gay marriage and abortn 2008; 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.
PRCE: GAY MARRIAGE ISN'T RIGHT
’ ” In 2013, the artist dropped a track lled “Da Bourgeoisie” that ntaed lyrics many emed anti-gay or bi-phobic: “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 … I gus a man’s only good for a ray day / Maybe you’re jt another beard lady at the baret. That he was simultaneoly a beloved gay in and perhaps an anti-gay proselytizer is jt one ripple the vast sea of ntradictns that ma Prce such a spellbdg artist, a virtuosic performer of mic and genr alike. Black or whe, straight or gay, rock or R&B, male or female—Prce transcend every tegory.
” As he sang “Controversy, ” Prce luxuriated not nformg to any easy classifitn as male or female, black or whe, straight or gay—and as his reer veloped, we might also add secular or sacred, fanatilly sular or generoly outreachg, mercial or unmercial, keenly knowg or pulsively chaotic. But was Prce gay? Maybe he wasn’t so fortable wh his sexualy, after Prce gay?