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Contents:
- SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
- MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS
- RAP STAR MACKLEMORE: ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. THERE IS NO SEPARATN’
- MACKLEMORE & LEWIS’ “SAME LOVE” IS MORE THAN A PRO-GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM
- IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
- MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?
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As far as wag to wed until everyone n, the Seattle rapper has been an outspoken advote of gay rights, wh his Mary Lambert llaboratn “Same Love” peakg at No. Sexualy: Is Macklemore Gay? Contrary to speculatn, Macklemore isn't gay.
“If I was gay, I would thk Hip Hop hat me.
MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM 'SAME LOVE' WS AT MTV VMAS
"Same Love" rapper Macklemore said he is not gay, spe what Inter mors might lead people to believe. * macklemore gay rights *
Now, creatg a space where men n talk about sexism, where wh n talk about racism and where straight people n talk about homophobia is important. Black and openly gay rapper Le1f tweeted, “ sadns me out that a straight man is the voice pop mic has chosen for gay rights. ” The New York-based artist cricized Macklemore for profg off the creatn of a gay rights anthem whout thoroughly addrsg the heteronormative nstras of the mic dtry that have allowed for his song and not a gay rapper’s song to be accepted.
Le1f ranted on Twter alludg to his song “Wut” when he tweeted, “that time that straight whe du ripped off my song then ma a vio about gay terracial love and ma a ln dollars”, and “news jt : gay people don’t re about your vio about gay people. The lack of queer reprentatn Hip Hop and the selective public acceptance should not overshadow the fact that there have been rappers before Macklemore who don’t have a Billboard toppg gay rights anthem that teeny boppers Middle Ameri n sg along to the r wh their parents, but who still openly support gay marriage.
RAP STAR MACKLEMORE: ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. THERE IS NO SEPARATN’
Granted, the hip-hop muny do not have the greatt reputatn when to homophobia.
However, rebg the entire muny to that of a vilently homophobic group is rctive. Cohen lv to the flawed homogenized study of which queer reprentatn has fallen unr. She wr, “Disappotgly, left largely unexplored has been the role of race and one’s relatnship to domant power nstctg the range of public and private possibili for such fundamental ncepts…So while we n talk of the heterosexual and the queer, the labels/tegori tell very ltle about the differenc the relative power of, for example, middle-class Whe gay men and poor heterosexual Black women and men” (29).
Dpe the fact that there are openly queer and transgenr rappers the dtry such as Le1f, Nicki Maj, Azealia Banks, Mykki Blan, Cak Da Killa, and Zebra Katz, took a whe, heterosexual male for mastream society to regnize gay acceptance hip-hop. He is not the first rapper to support gay rights. Will see s first gay rapper.
MACKLEMORE & LEWIS’ “SAME LOVE” IS MORE THAN A PRO-GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM
She exclaimed, “I’m a gay rapper! ” Azealia Banks also addrsed the issue of homosexual reprentatn hip hop by sayg, “I’m not tryg to be like the bisexual, lbian rapper. Cln of homosexualy wh the rap dtry.
IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]
In a Mother Jon terview Augt, rapper Talib Kweli said, “There jt needs to be a gay rapper—he don’t have to be flamboyant, jt a rapper who intifi as gay—who’s better than everybody. ” Hip-hop don’t want to hear Macklemore speak for gays. Hip-hop wants gays to speak for gays.
The issue li wh the fibers of whe heterosexual male privilege, that the same opn beg voiced by untls mori and homosexuals is not receivg the same gree of attentn and aclas that Macklemore is receivg om one song.
The MTV Vio Mic Awards wasn’t all about Miley Cys’ jaw-droppg one of the more poignant moments of the eveng, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ gay rights anthem “Same Love” won the award for “Bt Vio wh a Social Msage” at Sunday’s MTV Vio Mic Awards Brooklyn. “Gay rights are human rights, there is no separatn.
MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER
Macklemore told The New York Tim he posed the song March 2012 after readg an article about a bullied gay teenager who mted suici. As a straight man, he said he also wanted to show his support for his two gay uncl and his gay godfather.
The vio lls out other hip-hop artists for g gay slurs and relig lears for refg to support marriage of today, the vio has more than 70 ln hs on YouTube alone. It’s good to see someone om the hip-hop culture steppg to the light and takg on a taboo subject like homosexualy, pecially a nothg-to-hi artist like Macklemore (remember “The Penis Song”? Inially, I tried wrg om the perspective of a gay, bullied kid, but after gettg some feedback, I felt wasn’t my story to tell.
What I do know, and where I wrote om, is my own perspective growg up a culture where“that’s gay” was monplace, wh a huge stigma on those who intified and were perceived as gay. Unfortunately, tolerance of the gay muny hip hop is wispread. The bt rappers will e homophobic language on albums that crics rave about, makg hip hop and homophobia extribly lked.