Contents:
- HOW DID GOSPEL ARTIST TONEX BEE GAY ACTIVIST B-SLA?
- EX-GOSPEL SGER DRAGS BLACK CHRISTIANS SONG WHO SHAME HIM FOR BEG GAY
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- TONEX NOW KNOWN AS “B-SLA”: PERFORMS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY
- TONEX: FIRST OPENLY GAY GOSPEL SINGER HAS NEW NAME AND NEW SOUND
- FORMER GOSPEL SGER SLAMS BLACK CHURCH FOR SHUNNG HIM AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY
HOW DID GOSPEL ARTIST TONEX BEE GAY ACTIVIST B-SLA?
But upon g out as a gay man, he left a sour taste the mouths of the gospel muny and was subsequently ridiculed.
Much like Frank Ocean, who bravely tegrated homoerotic love narrativ on Channel Orange, B. Though he is openly gay, Sla mak clear that he’s no activist, but rather an artist of exprsn…who happens to be gay. ] album ver, ’s a great breakthrough for everyone, ” not jt for gay culture.
” —Gerren Keh Gaynor (@MrGerrenalist). In mid-2010, Tonex me out publicly as a gay Christian.
EX-GOSPEL SGER DRAGS BLACK CHRISTIANS SONG WHO SHAME HIM FOR BEG GAY
You’ll have more luck fdg him as B Sla, wavg a rabow striped flag at a Gay Pri para than ttifyg church circl.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
In so dog perhaps he beme the first well-known openly gay gospel artist and like Gaga believ homosexuals are “born this way. Sce you’ve bee openly gay, have you experienced more or ls eedom?
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TONEX NOW KNOWN AS “B-SLA”: PERFORMS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY
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Rears of the origal blog may rell our terview wh Sla 2009 shortly after he me out as gay an terview wh gospel artist and ter personaly Lexi Allen. ” Now openly gay and still performg his tramark Gospel mic. Some time ago Tonex announced on the Lexi show that he was gay, puttg to rt years of speculatn.
TONEX: FIRST OPENLY GAY GOSPEL SINGER HAS NEW NAME AND NEW SOUND
He answers whether or not he feels homosexualy is a s. Last month, Rwandan Gospel sger Albert Nabonibo me out as gay an terview wh a Christian YouTube channel, a public admissn that is unmon the central Ain natn. He is worried he uld lose his job, not bee beg gay is illegal or outlawed but bee beg openly LGBTQ+ is extremely taboo.
FORMER GOSPEL SGER SLAMS BLACK CHURCH FOR SHUNNG HIM AFTER HE CAME OUT AS GAY
"If you are gay, members of your muny ostracize you, " William Ntwali, a Rwandan human rights activist, told the AP.
Such beliefs lead many to poe beg "ex-gay" after prayer, text studyg, and, sometim, life-threateng and trmatic "treatments. " Notable exampl clu gospel sger Donnie McClurk who, after sharg his 2001 memoir Eternal Victim/Eternal Victor that he was sexually asstled by male church members that ma him gay, intifi as "ex-gay. ""There is a long list of [gays] your midst and they clu pastors or churchgoers, " he said.