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Tyler, the Creator Knew Frank Ocean Was Gay Bee of His Snack Preferenc Odd Future ontman/most eloquent orator Tyler, the Creator tells Rollg Stone that he knew bandmate/close iend Frank Ocean was gay before the Channel Orange sger ever me out. "I kda knew [he was gay], bee he lik Pop Tarts whout ostg on them, so I knew somethg was weird. "He knows me, and he knows I don't re about beg gay.

Gay Pri for the Gay Bri Tyler Perry: Man of Many Fac T-Pa's School of Bs: Barnana- Food Waste Into Tasty Snacks Frank Lucero, A. While hip-hop and R&B, had been monly wrten off as herently homophobic, the rponse to Ocean’s emotnal letter was mostly posive, wh many praisg the one-of-a-kd talent for his bravens and honty. As a young gay Black boy who grew up stgglg to reckon my love for hip-hop, rap, and R&B wh the homophobic sentiments often rattled off, Frank’s g out was a pivotal moment — one that let me know I wasn’t alone and that society uld be ready to accept others like me, too.

Apparently, I wasn’t the only young gay Black boy who felt that sense of lmg support followg Ocean’s g out. Durg a recent holiday episo of Zane Lowe’s #AtHomeWhAppleMic show, Lil Nas X, an openly gay rapper himself, revealed how much Frank Ocean — and his close llaborator Tyler, The Creator, who is also openly queer — has meant for his reer. Did you know Frank Ocean was gay before he me out last year?

TYLER, THE CREATOR ON HOW HE KNEW FRANK OCEAN WAS "GAY," AND WHY HE DON'T CARE

The Most Notable Tim Tyler, The Creator Possibly Allud to Beg GayThe hip-hop domated rners of the ter have been able to talk of ltle else this week other than the ia that Tyler, The Creator may have e out of the closet on his new album Scum Fuck Flower Boy.

But his language towards the LGBT muny his work has been particularly damng; om an actually sane amount of gay slurs to appropriate e-ons to c and llo mislabellg, there should be somethg to offend jt about everybody the queer yet spe of all, Tyler has simultaneoly monstrated an open---if not, cur---md towards alternative sexual liftyl. "Domo 23"Where homoerotic referenc were subtly woven to his bars on his prev albums, this cut om his third full-length Wolf fds Tyler ntemplatg a relatnship wh one of his Odd Future mat first as a joke, only to take thgs a b more serly the more he ponrs.

Not even a 'no homo' tacked onto the end n dissua om the msage here: "So I grabbed Lus and filmed kissg / Feelgs gettg ught, 's off, I'm pissg / You thk I give a fuck? I a't even stick my dick yet / No homo. "on Larry KgTyler ponrs Larry's qutn about the possibily of a gay rapper wh an tertg quot om his 'Rollg Stone' profile"For the past two days I've wonred, is Tyler actually gay?

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I nnot emphasize how much gay humor plays a role the atmosphere around him. It's like a ntuo loop of the "You know how I know you're gay? "My iends are so ed to me beg gay, " Tyler says, "they don't even re.

"I fally ask, Why all the gay humor? "Bee I'm gay as fuck, " he says, whout a flch. Serly, are you gay?

"I one hundred percent would go gay for '96 Leo. It’s not easy beg a gay hip-hop fan.

IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?

For years, I’ve wrtled wh my love of the mic on one hand wh my distaste for the homophobia embedd wh on the other, grimacg at the tratg ease wh which a rapper is able to say faggot, a hateful word that no straight person has any right to be g.

I’ve found this pecially problematic wh the mic of Tyler, the Creator, the 26-year-old provotr whose lyrics have often aimed to shock and repulse, whether addrsg vlence agast women (“Punch a bch her mouth jt for talk’ sh”) or his apparent disgt at gay men (“Come take a stab at , faggot, I pre-orred your sket”). “I’m bummed out bee ’s like, du, I’m not homophobic. This progrsn has e to a crcendo wh his latt album, the dreay melancholic Flower Boy, the tle of which potentially acts as a clue to what might be his most ntroversial statement the rapper who ed the word faggot, or other anti-gay variatns, 213 tim on his but album actually be gay or bisexual himself?

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