Iggy Azalea has ncelled a performance at a US gay pri celebratn after cricism over past remarks that were seen as homophobic.
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- IGGY AZALEA HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS: HERE'S WHY GAY PRI GROUPS BOYTTED SGER'S PTSBURGH PERFORMANCE
- IGGY AZALEA: HOMOPHOB NEED MORE GAYS THEIR LIV
- IGGY AZALEA’S BOYIEND, NICK YOUNG, GAY WH HIS CLOSE MALE BFF? SPOTTED ON A HOLIDAY SHOPPG DATE!
- IGGY AZALEA WHDRAWS OM GAY CELEBRATN AFTER SHE RECEIV CRICISM OVER PAST HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS
IGGY AZALEA HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS: HERE'S WHY GAY PRI GROUPS BOYTTED SGER'S PTSBURGH PERFORMANCE
Iggy Azalea's tweets that drew the ire of gay groups clud homophobic slurs and a stereotype about lbian women sports. * iggy azalea gay *
Azalea has been acced of beg homophobic bee of ments she tweeted years ago.
Atralian rapper Iggy Azalea has been acced by some of beg homophobic after ments she tweeted years ago recently surfaced light of her schled performance at Ptsburgh Pri, an event support of the cy’s gay and transgenr rints. Several of the events sponsors and participatg groups threatened to pull out of Ptsburgh Pri bee of what the rapper tweets that drew the ire of gay groups clud homophobic slurs and a stereotype about lbian women sports.
IGGY AZALEA: HOMOPHOB NEED MORE GAYS THEIR LIV
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Many have lled Azalea’s ments anti-gay and have led some to acce the rapper of beg tweets have long sce been leted but are still archived screenshots on Tumblr. “When guys whisper each others ears I always thk s kda homo, " Azalea, 25, tweeted also tweeted a homophobic slur about lbian women.
“It wasn’t a, ‘Don’t thk I’m gay, ’ but more so me beg like, ‘Hey, I’m not a fake lbian. It’s almost like gay nowadays is so trendy that people want to be gay and then they don’t. I’m not gay.
IGGY AZALEA’S BOYIEND, NICK YOUNG, GAY WH HIS CLOSE MALE BFF? SPOTTED ON A HOLIDAY SHOPPG DATE!
I love gay people, but I’m straight.
I appreciate women, and I like rappg about them, but se you thought I was a lame person pretendg to be gay, um, I’m not.
In fact, the Asie spfire regularly speaks up about her irratn wh homophobia hip-hop and believ the shadow sts over the genre stems om a lack of tn and faiary wh LGBT people.
IGGY AZALEA WHDRAWS OM GAY CELEBRATN AFTER SHE RECEIV CRICISM OVER PAST HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS
"[Homophobia] om ignorance and homophob not beg around enough gay people, " she says. "I thk straight men, pecially hip-hop, have this notn that a gay man is gog to e and make them gay or try to have sex wh them, and I always thk that's so weird. ' I don't get why some straight men are still so sred of gay people.
"However, Azalea believ Amerin culture is changg quickly, and won't be long before an out gay rapper will be accepted by the mastream. "I don't thk we're far off om [an out mastream rapper] at all bee women are the number 1 nsumers of mic and hip-hop, and I thk women are more open to the ia of openly gay artists, " she says.
"I remember seeg [out gay rapper] Le1f on David Letterman jt the other night and thkg how great was for him to have that kd of reach and exposure on televisn. "The creased visibily of LGBT people all forms of media is a progrsive step Azalea applds, but she sists homophobia mt be met wh real-life experience before n be relegated solely to history books. "It's good we're a time now where more people are openly gay, bee before there was so much prejudice that people would rema closeted and a person wouldn't even know they were really close iends wh a gay man.