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Contents:

• THE "GAY AGENDA" IN HIP-HOP
• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• HOW TYLER, THE CREATOR TROJAN-HORSED THE GAY AGENDA ONTO HOT 97'S AIRWAV
• FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+
• THE GAY AGENDA AND THE REAL WORLD
• DJ GAY AGENDA

THE "GAY AGENDA" IN HIP-HOP

LOG IN WITH FACEBOOKHome›Entertament›The "Gay Agenda" In Hip-Hop›Sce s ial ceptn, hip-hop has visibly changed the mastream. However, hip-hop seems to have been given a new face: a gay the mid-2010s, there appears to be an unrtow of gay culture workg s way to mastream hip-hop. " Kev Abstract, of the rap group Brockhampton and -star of "Boy Band" on Vice TV, graphilly raps about homosexual oral sex and only sleepg wh straight men.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

A quick ter search on the plats of hip-hop will pat the oppose picture of "gay-iendly". How is that rap has now seemed to be overtaken by a "gay agenda"? To answer my own qutn: rap hasn't been overtaken by a "gay agenda".

There is no one behd the artists pullg the puppet strgs and makg them rap about beg gay or forcg them to wear drs on the vers of their albums. First, the LGBT muny has e a long way to prent to everyone that 's normal to be gay. This has led to a lot more people, like Frank Ocean and Kev Abstract, beg able to feel fortable promotg themselv as gay/bi rappers.

Send, the wing acceptance of the LGBT muny has allowed non-gay rappers, like Lil Uzi Vert and Young Thug, the eedom to do thgs that ed to be perceived as no-nos last reason there is a higher reprentatn of gay culture rap go a ltle eper than the first two. Often, male-domated societi brg wh them a nuance of homo-eroticism that has nothg to do wh beg gay.

HOW TYLER, THE CREATOR TROJAN-HORSED THE GAY AGENDA ONTO HOT 97'S AIRWAV

Fraterni have a homo-erotic unrtone bee of the typ of bond the young men have to make wh each other. But, wh the changg tim, 's also not gog to be shockg to see gay culture make a steadier rise the this ContentThis article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ias and opns of the creator. Samson/Tnk ArchiveWhy n’t straight men stop obssg about gay people?

Maybe they should terrogate their own prient terts other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the ia of male timacy ril the past few weeks, several rappers have ma sensive — or full-on homophobic — statements about gay people. Fend DaBaby, sayg that gay people had gone om beg bullied to dog the bullyg, simply bee they had mand acuntabily om DaBaby, urgg him to apologize and phg mic ftivals to drop him om their lps.

FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+

About a week after DaBaby’s rant, Boosie Badazz, a hip-hop artist who me up the 1990s, went after Lil Nas X, one of the rare rappers who are openly, unapologetilly, explosns-of-glter gay, threateng to asslt me say first that the untry has quickly evolved on the acceptance of gayns, and that clus an evolutn among Black people. But as acceptance and visibily rise, those the mory who feel threatened by gay people have grown lour. They talk apolyptic terms about a “gay agenda” sted to rec throngs to a gay “liftyle.

”Let’s clarify: Beg gay is not a liftyle that one n choose, like beg a jet-setter or a bohemian; is an immutable feature of a life. Also, there is no explosn of gayns simply bee gay people are now more visible than they once were. I don’t see a gay agenda this story but an anti-gay first, let me say this: Whenever I enunter a passnate homophobe, my md immediately foc on his passn.

Why would a straight man vote so much time and energy to hatg gay people? ”In other words, some homophob outwardly attack that wh which they wardly battle. I have always ntend that all of the -isms and -phobias are s, that a society that creat a hierarchy of humany wh whe, straight, cisgenr men at the apex, every person who is not whe or straight or cisgenr or male gets assigned a lower orr of that sense, racism and sexism, homophobia and transphobia all branch om the same one bias n fluence and amplify a society that treats racism as a sport, which each racial group is jockeyg agast the others, all of them shadowed by a culture of whe supremacy laced wh misogyny, anythg that rc your percentage of straight mal or “femiz” them is seen as weakeng the Black people bee agents agast Black power and Black liberatn, a weight on the this dulent this is adopted, traracial terror picks up where terracial terror left off.

THE GAY AGENDA AND THE REAL WORLD

It is not the gay Black person who be an stment of a whe supremacist attack on Black masculy; is the Black homophobe who be the stment of opprsn agast his own is important to pot out that the racist and the homophobe often employ the same tactics. Homophob often e the same tactic, claimg that they are protectg children om is precisely the fense Boosie Badazz ed when appearg on “The Breakfast Club” rad show, at one pot seemgly exprsg a fear that if rappers didn’t speak out agast certa exprsns of gayns, an entire generatn of children uld be aga, to clarify: There is no amount of exposure that n make a straight man prefer a penis or a gay one prefer a vaga. If that were te, wh all the straight love and affectn gay kids are exposed to, they would all be turned straight by the age of 5.

Sexual attractn and sexualy jt don’t work that this simplistic notn of sexualy oms is that there are also gay children who have known they were different for as long as they have known anythg, and those children serve reprentatn and visibily; they need to know that there is nothg wrong, broken or evil about them, so that they, too, n feel normal and seen.

DJ GAY AGENDA

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