BROCKHAMPTON's "Gay" Capsule Reprents and Empowers the LGBTQIA+ Communy: Enlistg activists om GLAAD’s Youth Engagement Program for s Kev Abstract-directed and Ashlan Grey-shot lookbook.
Contents:
- A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
- BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
- BROCKHAMPTON RELNCH THEIR ‘GAY’ CLOTHG COLLECTN AT ZUMIEZ
A HIP-HOP GROUP WH AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER HAS THE #1 ALBUM
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How many members of Brockhampton are actually gay? We all know Kev is for sure, but how many members, total, are actually gay? It’s a historic acplishment for a Rap group wh an openly gay member.
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“My goal is jt to normalize , ” he says of rappg about beg gay. In orr to make a change, I have to exist a tradnally homophobic space such as Hip-Hop. Though Hip-Hop is not a plete stranger to varyg gre of sexual orientatn, Kev is certaly the most visible and mercially succsful gay rapper the culture has seen.
BROCKHAMPTON'S "GAY" CAPSULE REPRENTS AND EMPOWERS THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNY
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Acrdg to Gallup, the timate of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) populatn the Uned Stat rose to 4. Kev Abstract was behd a microphone a rerdg stud the first time he ever said out loud that he was gay.
“Can't tell my mother I'm gay / The harst part of my day is wishg I was fuckg straight / Life uld be so fuckg easy, man, ” he sgs on the track. ” Abstract formed what would eventually bee BROCKHAMPTON at 13 years old, spawng an rap group and art llective unlike anythg precedg CreightonIn a world where you n unt the number of Black, gay rappers on one hand, Abstract stepped—purposefully or not—to the sho of role mol when he began makg mic.
BROCKHAMPTON RELNCH THEIR ‘GAY’ CLOTHG COLLECTN AT ZUMIEZ
Growg up a Mormon hoehold a suburb north of Hoton (then Corp Christi, then Geia for a while), Abstract didn’t have a lot of Black or gay peers or mentors to look to. “Why you always rap about beg gay? “‘Cse not enough n***** rap and be gay!
“I told my mom I was gay, why the fuck she a't listen? The lyric speaks to his “Papercut” rerdg ssn, before those clost to him knew he was gay.
Super-group BROCKHAMPTON has relnched s “Gay” clothg le, troducg a five-piece psule prisg T-shirts, hoodi, and hats. Much like GLAAD, BROCKHAMPTON’s “Gay” llectn acts as a vsel for reprentatn and empowerment wh the queer muny, further exprsg this msage the mastream media and retail spac.