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GAY OR BI? THE DANGERS OF LABELG FRANK OCEAN
21 Great Gay Moments In Mic. For gay black male sgers and rappers, outsi the closet remas mostly a don’t-go-there zone, to which only a few artists sce Ocean — cludg “Empire” star Jsie Smollett, Brockhampton lear Kev Abstract and rapper ILoveMakonnen — have ventured. “Instead of supportg each other, sometim we n get stuck a box and people n hold agast , ” says Atlanta’s ILoveMakonnen, a former Drake protégé who me out as gay 2017.
FRANK OCEAN: ‘I CRIED THE NIGHT I ME OUT AS GAY’
Anti-gay sentiment the black mic muny is driven, part, by old-time relign and a God who, acrdg to some beliefs, nmns homosexualy. As protectors of machismo see , homosexualy and what is perceived as “feme” behavr by men further strip black men of their mascule power. Craig Seymour, whose “Craig’s Pop Life” podst explor entertament om a black gay pot of view, se the black LGBTQ genr divi as a se of history repeatg self.