Future's Gay Lyric On 'Comg Out Strong' Ded By Kodak Black

Contents:

• FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• FULLY AUTOMATED GAY SPACE COMMUNISM IS THE FUTURE OF HUMANY

FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK

We saw Snoop Dogg's famo 2013 terview wh The Guardian, when the "G and Juice" rapper claimed, "[Homosexualy is] acceptable the sgg world, but the rap world I don't know if will ever be acceptable bee rap is so mascule. Odd Future has long been cricized for s homophobic lyrics, so much so that the band was booted om Atralia's massive Big Day Out ftival 2011, acrdg to Billboard. Nohels, the Odd Future DJ wasn't exactly accepted to the gay muny, particularly nsirg Odd Future's ntroversial history (Tyler the Creator the word "f****t" 200 tim on "Gobl" alone).

"There's a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls exprsg themselv; I'm not the first to say , I'm not the first to rap about , " she told The Guardian.

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

He admted to "BBC Breakfast" that he didn't feel like homosexualy was "accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muny, " but he hoped fans would "feel fortable" wh . NBC News noted his mic serv as a much-need opposn to a hip-hop culture where homophobic lyrics have tradnally been the norm (50 cent, famed for g the "f" word his songs, has sce apologized for past homophobia, as has Emem).

" She also prevly told The New York Tim that she don't re whether people thk she's gay, but was important for her to mata a modicum of mystery around her personal life. In 2012, he revealed he is gay and once claimed to be the first rapper to e out as such, though this is disputable (Frank Ocean's g out, for stance, cid wh Y-Love's).

" He highlighted the signifince of livg his tth, revealg he spent years worryg about the potential effects g out might have on his public reputatn, before ultimately ncedg that his personal happs — and the value of reprentatn as a Black gay rapper — eclipsed a need for acceptance wh the hip-hop muny. " She also discsed the prevalence of vlence agast butch-prentg gay women, highlightg the murr of a number of lbians a regn of Chile that has bee notor for s homophobic hate crim. "Beg 'butch' means wearg your sexualy on your sleeve, which, an age still explibly marred by homophobia, n have grave nsequenc all over the world, " she stated.

WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?

"I never knew where I stood [ the gay scene] until I looked around and realized that not only did a certa group of people fd me attractive, but the feelg was mutual, and that was the bear muny, " he revealed. I had jt walked past my first apartment -- the fourth floor walk-up the East Village, where I lived wh my hband, before I got divorced and me out as gay -- when I found the book that tght me the te meang of the word "queer.

Functng as a thg and an actn, rather than jt a scriptor, be an vatn to a dynamic realm of possibily, beyond the var bari that imprison our mds, beyond that which is breathls sense of possibily is the biggt way g out as gay has changed me.

Or, ls abstract terms, when you ed to be a terpillar, is endlsly miraculo to have fally gotten through wh the bs of beg a, jt never really occurred to me that I might be gay. ♦♦♦In the early Aughts, my iends and I spent our Saturday nights at a gay dance club the Bronx lled the Warehoe, a verno former loadg dock turned to a makhift gay club for men of lor who were lookg for eher sex, love, or a strong drk.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

At the time, pre-Inter, the Warehoe was the only show town, so if you wanted to fd young gay black men a social settg, you had to make your way to the Grand Conurse and fd them among the thugged-out neighborhood boys, turned-out fashnistas, disurse-ready amics, closeted choir directors, mil theater majors, and black body-boys wh their gym-ripped bodi. Queer poets talkg to other queer poet about poetics, gay Republins talkg to each other about fisl nservatism, queer art school kids talkg to other art schools kids about visual athetics, Bears talkg wh other Bears about all the happengs at Bear Week Provcetown.

This means that a majory of muny rourc should be voted wh the next five years to fightg harassment and vlence pecially agast trans women of lor; trans-specific suici preventn; and obtag the same legal protectns for trans people as for gays and lbians areas of employment, tn, healthre, ernment, and all other civil stutns. A foot or more  sea levels will impact many of our LGBTI (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr/Transexual, Intersex) tradnal plac of safety—NYC, Boston, San Francis.

Molly me out as bisexual when she was 13 (Picture: Molly)‘Comg out is different for bi people than is for gay people several ways, ’ The Amerin Instute of Bisexualy says.

FULLY AUTOMATED GAY SPACE COMMUNISM IS THE FUTURE OF HUMANY

‘Unfortunately, biphobic reactns are far too mon and almost every bisexual person has horror stori to share about datg or urtg a straight, gay, or lbian person for whom bisexualy was a al-breaker.