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OZOMATLI SGS ABOUT ‘GAY VATOS LOVE’
Salt and PepperIs Freddy Fenr gay or straight? But the chos of this track on the new Ozomatli album is sure to surprise any sual listener: ‘Gay vatos love, ’ the song go. ‘Gay vatos love.
The track that celebrat same-sex relatnships -- and also als wh gay vlence and nial -- is clud the group’s fifth stud rerd, ‘Fire Away, ’ which was released April 20. ) Wh s classic sound but sharply gay-iendly msage, ‘Gay Vatos Love’ breaks to uncharted terrory that borrs on the mic dtry, polics, sexualy and Lato pop culture. The band began puttg together ‘Gay Vatos Love’ durg the height of the Prop.
8 bate California and while one of the band’s members, Asd, was workg on wrg mic for a pennt film project about a Mexin Amerin gay gangster.
WAS FREDDY FENR GAY OR BI? LOOK AT HIS SEXUALY
Although the band didn’t play ‘Gay Vatos Love’ durg this particular show -- ‘Here we need rock, heavy songs, bee that’s what the kids want’ -- Pache said the track had been receivg lots of buzz the media. They’d played ‘Gay Vatos Love’ live on several recent tour stops, and the reactn was sometim mixed, Pache said. Some people ask, pecially the Spanish prs, ‘Who’s gay the band?
‘We felt that [gay rights] is jt another a long le of unrdogs, so I thk we nnected to on that level. ’ But ‘Gay Vatos Love’ is not jt a celebratn ballad. The lyrics, as provid by Pache, addrs gays the closet as well:Javi and Kike wh their girliends the r/ Frontg on Crenshaw, knowg who they are The track also mentns Angie Zapata, the 18-year-old transgenr woman Colorado who was killed 2008 by a sexual partner who disvered she was male.
That level of plexy a stud album cut is what is surprisg gay-rights advot as the track spreads on the Inter. Francis Dueñas, who anized around LGBT Lato issu wh Lambda Legal Los Angel, said an terview that he found ‘amazg’ that the song was jt not celebratory but also ‘substantative’ alg wh gay issu.