Contents:
- EX-GOSPEL SGER DRAGS BLACK CHRISTIANS SONG WHO SHAME HIM FOR BEG GAY
- TONEX: FIRST OPENLY GAY GOSPEL SINGER HAS NEW NAME AND NEW SOUND
- HOW DID GOSPEL ARTIST TONEX BEE GAY ACTIVIST B-SLA?
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- TONEX NOW KNOWN AS “B-SLA”: PERFORMS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY
EX-GOSPEL SGER DRAGS BLACK CHRISTIANS SONG WHO SHAME HIM FOR BEG GAY
But upon g out as a gay man, he left a sour taste the mouths of the gospel muny and was subsequently ridiculed. Much like Frank Ocean, who bravely tegrated homoerotic love narrativ on Channel Orange, B.
Though he is openly gay, Sla mak clear that he’s no activist, but rather an artist of exprsn…who happens to be gay.
TONEX: FIRST OPENLY GAY GOSPEL SINGER HAS NEW NAME AND NEW SOUND
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In so dog perhaps he beme the first well-known openly gay gospel artist and like Gaga believ homosexuals are “born this way. Sce you’ve bee openly gay, have you experienced more or ls eedom? It’s tertg to see people g up to me and apologizg for the way the handl the whole g out procs, how they turned their backs or ially You’ve been married before as a straight man, would you marry aga as a gay man?
Sla, formerly known as gospel sger Tonéx, ed a firtorm on the ter after releasg a song slammg members of the black church who shame him bee he’s gay. In mid-2010, Tonex me out publicly as a gay Christian. I don't really f the gay muny eher.
HOW DID GOSPEL ARTIST TONEX BEE GAY ACTIVIST B-SLA?
” Now openly gay and still performg his tramark Gospel mic.
Some time ago Tonex announced on the Lexi show that he was gay, puttg to rt years of speculatn.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
He answers whether or not he feels homosexualy is a s. Openly gay sger and 'artivist' B. Rears of the origal blog may rell our terview wh Sla 2009 shortly after he me out as gay an terview wh gospel artist and ter personaly Lexi Allen.
Last month, Rwandan Gospel sger Albert Nabonibo me out as gay an terview wh a Christian YouTube channel, a public admissn that is unmon the central Ain natn. He is worried he uld lose his job, not bee beg gay is illegal or outlawed but bee beg openly LGBTQ+ is extremely taboo.
"If you are gay, members of your muny ostracize you, " William Ntwali, a Rwandan human rights activist, told the AP.
TONEX NOW KNOWN AS “B-SLA”: PERFORMS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY
Such beliefs lead many to poe beg "ex-gay" after prayer, text studyg, and, sometim, life-threateng and trmatic "treatments. " Notable exampl clu gospel sger Donnie McClurk who, after sharg his 2001 memoir Eternal Victim/Eternal Victor that he was sexually asstled by male church members that ma him gay, intifi as "ex-gay.
""There is a long list of [gays] your midst and they clu pastors or churchgoers, " he said.
The performance would be the largt public performance that B-Sla has done sce announcg that he was gay on the now ncelled Lexi Show. B-Sla, always grac to answer our qutns, let know whether or not he felt beg gay was a s.