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

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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...

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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).

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.

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

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 * gay love and hip hop *

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. 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.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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

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”). 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.

“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.

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 *

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?

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 *

It's no secret that there's been a longstandg stigma when to homosexualy 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. 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.

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

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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.

"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.

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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). 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.

Sheran has sce parted ways wh Drake, who helped him nab a Grammy nomatn, but he ma an even bigger impact on his own when he me out as gay on Twter 2017. And sce y'all love breakg news, here's some old news to break, I'm gay.

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

By 2015, the rapper felt like people still didn't get the ht and took to Twter to air her grievanc followg an onslght of accatns claimg she was homophobic. "Jt give the Azealia Banks is a homophobe thg a rt bee I'm not.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

My whole life is gay. All of my iends are gay, I am bisexual.... "I want to create mic that n be played every gay club all over the world bee those are my people.

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

However, her work still feels radil rather than regrsive, bee Young MA is one of the few outspokenly gay members of the greater hip-hop muny. The star knew she was gay sce her first year of school, but nied to her mother until she me out — to the support of her fay — when she was 18 years old. "There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls exprsg themselv; I'm not the first to say , I'm not the first to rap about , " she told The Guardian.

It's kd of sad that those few who do e out get so much attentn bee they are gay, rather than bee of their mic. Mykki Blan told Pl that his father knew he was gay sce he was 3 years old, though he didn't e out publicly till much later. When he told the world he was gay, Blan also revealed he was HIV posive.

He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh .

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