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• THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP
• BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND
• LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD TAK A SMALL STEP FORWARD FOR BLACK GAY MEN
• MEET ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: ATLANTA’S’ FIRST GAY MALE COUPLE
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• ‘LOVE & HIP HOP ATLANTA’ WEL VERY FIRST GAY CAST MEMBERS
• 'LOVE AND HIP-HOP HOLLYWOOD' SPOILERS; OPENLY GAY UPLE JOS THE ST
• 'LOVE & HIP HOP' BLACK GAY UPLE SOUND OFF ON HOMOPHOBIA HIP HOP, FEND THEIR RELATNSHIP
• APRYL JON CLAIMS OMARN JOED ‘LOVE AND HIP HOP’ TO DISPEL GAY RUMORS

THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

The First Gay Couple to Ever be Featured on 'Love & Hip Hop' Had an Awful BreakupAre Mil and Milan still together? The former 'Love & Hip Hop Hollywood' stars were the anchise's first openly gay Jun. ETSource: VH1In 2015, Mil Brock and Milan Christopher ma headl as the first openly gay uple to be featured on VH1’s Love & Hip Hop.

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

He ed to go to [gay] balls and stuff.

"I thought this was gog to be a love story about a gay relatnship beg brought to a mographic that typilly thks of gays and homosexualy as a famatn… not this msy love triangle. "At the end of the day, I hate the label 'gay rapper.

LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD TAK A SMALL STEP FORWARD FOR BLACK GAY MEN

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.

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.

MEET ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: ATLANTA’S’ FIRST GAY MALE COUPLE

“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”). 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.

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

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.

‘LOVE & HIP HOP ATLANTA’ WEL VERY FIRST GAY CAST MEMBERS

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Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Tak A Small Step Forward for Black Gay Men. Before Mil and Milan, the New York versn of the anchise featured a lbian uple, Eri Mena and her then-girliend Cyn Santana, but this is the first time a gay male uple has been featured.

) In any se, viewers were primed for a gay shakp when the new season began.

'LOVE AND HIP-HOP HOLLYWOOD' SPOILERS; OPENLY GAY UPLE JOS THE ST

The show’s refal to treat Mil and Milan as gay sikicks who keep their bt girliends laced the latt fashn trends and who spout gay lgo, but rather as whole human begs who experience love, is mendable. Bee gay men are pable of givg and receivg love jt like straight folks, right? Milan is clearly vted matag his inty, both his relatnship and an dtry that exus homophobia.

He stands firm sayg he is a black, gay male who’s equally talented and serv love like everyone else. As a gay man of lor, Milan ref to give up on any aspect of that stggle.

It will also puncture the popular—and rrect—perceptn that black gays and lbians experience homophobia more than any other muny. Realy shows featurg gays and lbians have rarely ptured the thenticy of same-sex love. Well bee hip hop is known as beg herently homophobic (i do not believe that but 's a stereotype), and although there has been and still is homophobia the hip hop muny, queer rappers and hip hop heads are out here.

'LOVE & HIP HOP' BLACK GAY UPLE SOUND OFF ON HOMOPHOBIA HIP HOP, FEND THEIR RELATNSHIP

“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” is hopg to drive up ratgs by featurg s first gay male uple as regular stmat on the show. The duo tells The Blast, “As an Ain Amerin gay male uple ’s tough as hell today’s society and there are sooooooooooo many stigmas we’re up agast. They’re also exced to show a “Gay relatnship more of a posive light.

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

Fans of the seri know that Carter and Jon won’t be the first gay uple the “LHH” anchise, as Mil Brock and Milan Christopher were featured on the Hollywood edn 2015. Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood troduced the first openly gay uple the anchise, Milan and Mil, the send season.

Several episos featured public service announcements that sought to help people stgglg wh sexual inty, and there was a special episo which experts weighed on homophobia the origal New York stallment, Jonathan Fernanz, a makp artist, was ught a love triangle wh his boyiend, Trent.