Turns Out Prce Was a Gay-Bashg Homophobe

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

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. In 2006, gay mician Ruf Wawright wrote the Guardian that Prce’s genrfuckery is still unmatched morn pop mic.

WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

“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. ’ ” 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.

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

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?

PRCE: GAY MARRIAGE ISN'T RIGHT

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. “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. “He cled bee of my homosexualy and the fact I’m half-Jewish, ” said Melvo.