Rappers Who Have Come Out As Gay

gay love and hip hop

  • Home
  • gay love and hip hop

Recent Posts

GAY EXCITEDecember 23, 2024
ENUGU GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LINKDecember 23, 2024
DAY CARE GAYDecember 23, 2024
GAY AND LESBIAN NETFLIX MOVIESDecember 23, 2024
GAYLE WALSH RI OBITUARYDecember 23, 2024
WHERE IS THE GAY AREA IN VIENNADecember 23, 2024
CATFISH SO YOU'RE GAYDecember 23, 2024
GAY EROTIC HYPNOSIS MP3December 23, 2024
JOSH KINCAID GAY PORNDecember 23, 2024
REAL GAY COUPLEDecember 23, 2024

Tags

Apryl Jon reveals the nature of her relatnship wh Omarn while claimg he joed the show to dispel gay mors. The last time all ey were on Apryl Jon, was long before the panmic. After beg spotted wh Dr. Dre, the TV personaly is apparently fendg herself om accatns that she started actg out on

Contents:

BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND

Check out the many hip-hop artists who are out and proud as gay, lbian or bisexual. * gay love and hip hop *

Depictns of same-sex upl and gay culture are beg more and more mon to televisn, yet documentg a relatnship between two men the historilly homophobic world of hip hop may be a Christopher and Mil Brock hope their story will help affect change a muny that’s been largely ristant to UP for the ee Indie Foc movi newsletter >>“It’s hard bee there is no prototype to follow, ” said Christopher, 29, over drks Hollywood. ”On Monday, an anticipated episo which Brock out to his ex-girliend will be followed by a special roundtable discsn regardg homophobia hip hop. Christopher is openly gay but Brock’s fay didn’t know about his sexualy before the show premiered (some of his fay members are no longer speakg to him, he said).

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

* gay love and hip hop *

Last year “Empire” broke ground by featurg a black gay character for s drama that tak place the world of hip hop.

Historilly, realy seri have relegated gay men to the sikick/bt-iend role; characters who orb around straight unterparts. Black gay men have been further siled, limed to stereotypil rol such as stylists or personal doceri, “Tha Life Atlanta, ” bucked the trend by showg myriad black gay men livg and lovg, but was only seen onle after multiple works passed on a show as groundbreakg as MTV’s “The Real World, ” rponsible for showg some of realy televisn’s earlit imag of queer life Ameri, experienced a shock a ago when a black man me out a season where had already st a gay roommate ( was the first time the show featured two gay men s st).

Christopher and Brock’s prence on a high-profile platform such as VH1 uld help chip away at least some of the misogyny and homophobia herent rap culture.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Prce of Love & Hip Hop Miami addrs gay mors and genr norms. * gay love and hip hop *

Still, the ia of a gay male breakg mastream rap seems unheard of. “I want to do hardre rap, ” Christopher said, “but I’ve had iends say you shouldn’t bee you’re gay. A and Public Enemy ma no qualms about their disda for gay men their lyrics.

By the late ‘90s, the Beastie Boys had formally apologized for homophobic lyrics s semal 1986 but, “Licensed to Ill” (which was origally supposed to be tled “Don’t Be a Faggot”).

APRYL JON CLAIMS OMARN JOED ‘LOVE AND HIP HOP’ TO DISPEL GAY RUMORS

Love & Hip Hop Atlanta is certaly stirrg up a pot of drama nearg the next season. First K. Michelle, who recently signed to Warner Bros and has a new album Rebell Soul g, ma allegatns that st member Mimi Fst's boyiend Nikko was gay and on 'the down low.' Then mors that K. Michelle * gay love and hip hop *

Tyler, the Creator has repeatedly argued his age of gay slurs. 50 Cent once publicly nounced gay men “but women who like women, ” he said, “that’s ol. And years after famoly aligng wh Elton John at the Grammys, Emem, long cricized for his e of gay slurs, snagged a rap album Grammy for a rerd that had multiple slurs on past stallments of “Love & Hip Hop, ” viewers watched female mols Eri Mena and Cyn Santana fall and out of love, and a handful of female st members intify as lbian and bisexual.

LOVE & HIP ATLANTA’S NIKKO RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS BY K. MICHELLE AFTER FIGHT WH MIMI FST?!

Jonathan Fernanz of VH1's "Love & Hip Hop" reunts his experience wh gay nversn therapy as a child and the years took for him to mend his relatnship wh his mother. * gay love and hip hop *

“Moments like this don’t happen often for black gay men, even scripted televisn, ” said Drew-Shane Daniels, founr and edor chief of Med magaze, a news and culture se for black gay men. “For so long black gay characters uld not stand on their own. “It’s been abundantly clear that there’s a certa openns to the exprsn of displeasure of the gay muny.

Monday------------MORE:In their own words, on beg black and (openly) gay HollywoodHollywood appears still wary of gay black men’s marketabilyPHOTOS: Gay celebri: Who is out? It's no secret that there's been a longstandg stigma when to homosexualy hip-hop.

EXCLIVE: K. MICHELLE TALKS NIKKO & JOHNNY'S SEXUALY + WHETHER OR NOT RASHEEDA'S HBAND IS GAY

Milan Christopher has never been shy. The rapper me to promence on VH1's Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, where he broke ground the send season as the seri's first openly gay realy star, navigatg a relatnship wh then-boyiend Mil Brock. He ntued to pursue his mic reer, releas... * gay love and hip hop *

Here's a look at hip-hop artists who embrace beg gay, lbian or bisexual. We saw when hip-hop heavyweight Emem peppered "Rap God" wh anti-gay slurs, spe claimg he had no problem wh homosexualy.

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.

'LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD' SPECIAL GETS REAL ABOUT GAY RAPPERSVH1'S NEW SPECIAL 'LHH: OUT IN HIP HOP' EXPLOR BEG OUT AND GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY GIL KFMANOCTOBER 19, 2015/4:14 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}VH1OUT HIP HOPBY GIL KFMANOCTOBER 19, 2015 / 4:14 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"'LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD' SPECIAL GETS REAL ABOUT GAY RAPPERS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-19T20:14:16.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-19T20:14:16.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"GIL KFMAN","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VH1'S "LOVE & HIP HOP" ANCHISE HAS SERVED UP PLENTY OF DRAMA OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, GIVG VIEWERS A PEEK AT THE OFF-STAGE LOVE LIV OF RAPPERS LIKE JIM JON, PETER GUNZ, JOE BUDN, SAIGON AND THE MEN AND WOMEN THEY SHARE THEIR CLOSETS WH. MAKE-UPS, BREAKUPS, MONEY, POWER, RPECT, DISRPECT, THE SERI HAS H ALL THE NOT -- EXCEPT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS SEASON ON THE SEND EDN OF "LHH: HOLLYWOOD," WE WERE TRODUCED TO PRODUCER/RAPPER MILAN CHRISTOPHER AND HIS PARTNER, ASPIRG RAPPER MIL BROCK, WHO HAS SPENT MOST OF THE THE TIME SO FAR TRYG TO KEEP THEIR RELATNSHIP UNR WRAPS. WHY? BEE SPE ATTEMPTS BY KANYE WT AND "EMPIRE" TO BREAK DOWN ONE OF THE LAST BARRIERS OF ACCEPTANCE HIP-HOP, BEG OUT AND GAY RAP IS STILL A RISKY PROPOSN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT MIGHT END WH TONIGHT'S (OCT. 19) EPISO, WHICH MILAN, 29 (WHO WAS ALREADY OUT BEFORE THE SEASON BEGAN, BUT NOT TO BROCK'S FAY) AND MIL, 27, AIM TO BREAK NEW GROUND WHEN THEY OFFICIALLY E OUT ON THE SHOW. THOUGH THE PAIR HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR TWO YEARS, BOTH ARE ANX ABOUT HOW THEIR FAI, AND THE DTRY, WILL REACT TO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE EP WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A ROUNDTABLE DISCSN, "LHH: OUT HIP HOP," ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA HIP-HOP AND THE LACK OF ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY THE BLACK CHURCH AND MASTREAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THIS SNEAK PEEK ABOVE OF THE SPECIAL, WHICH AIRS TONIGHT AT 11 P.M ET, HOST T.J. HOLM OF ABC NEWS LEADS A DISCSN ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR CHURCH DON'T ACCEPT YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHY SOME THE BLACK CHURCH HAVE RISTED EMBRACG LGBT MEMBERS FOR SO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I THK WHAT THE BLACK CHURCH HAS GOTTEN WRONG IS THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S," SAYS REV. DELMAN COAT OF MARYLAND'S MT. ENNON BAPTIST CHURCH. "THERE'S THIS IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS AN ABOMATN. THAT SAME-GENR LOVE AND SAME-GENR SEX IS A S AGAST GOD."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TUNE TO FD OUT WHAT AN OPENLY GAY BLACK PASTOR THKS THE CHURCH NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT WELG S LGBT FAY AND WHY ONE PASTOR IS REFG THE PH TO EMBRACE THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Though the hip-hop muny is jt begng to accept queerns, the openly gay rappers are bravely pavg the way. 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.

JONATHAN FERNANZ OF 'LOVE & HIP HOP' ON SURVIVG GAY NVERSN THERAPY: 'YOU ARE BROKEN DOWN TO YOUR RE'

"I cid to do bee I wish I had someone like that [an openly gay female artist] while I was g up, " she told LA Weekly.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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).

LOVE & HIP ATLANTA’S NIKKO RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS BY K. MICHELLE AFTER FIGHT WH MIMI FST?!

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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY LOVE AND HIP HOP

Exclive: K. Michelle Talks Nikko & Johnny's Sexualy + Whether or Not Rasheeda's Hband is Gay | .

TOP