Prce of Love & Hip Hop Miami addrs gay mors and genr norms.
Contents:
- PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT
- THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT
Prce: Gay In, Whether He Wanted to Be or NotHow to rencile his later nservatism wh the sexual liberatn he stood for earlier life? Mike Blake / RtersIn 2008, the New Yorker wrer Claire Hoffman asked Prce what he thought of social issu like gay marriage and abortn.
The “homophobe” label attached self to him, acpanied by the bter shock of many fans. “The pop star who ma his name on his effete, androgyno ‘Is he GAY or not? But the years after that saw Prce actively avoid talkg about gay rights, and some wrers saw subtle homophobia a few of his later lyrics and qutn of how someone whose art once seemed to preach the very ia of “stickg wherever and dog wh whatever”—wh magaz, etc.
THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
Stewart go on to wre about how even though Prce’s lyril viewpot was almost always heterosexual—his songs were about men wantg women and women wantg men—he was unaaid of beg lled feme, gay, or perverted.
“Controversy, ” famoly, sniffed at the simplistic qutns directed at him: “Am I black or whe, am I straight or gay? ’ Gay marriage, whatever. “I have been alg wh people llg me gay sce I was the fourth gra bee of thgs I n’t ntrol.
”He ntu, “I have to al wh people llg me gay every day. Oh, and se you need help changg your toxic views on genr norms, Prce suggts the documentary Do I Sound Gay for your viewg Prce scribe his life as the party kg of Miami and why he has such a way wh the ladi. The operatg assumptn the late 1970s and early 1980s was that Prce was gay.