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.
TONEX: FIRST OPENLY GAY GOSPEL SINGER HAS NEW NAME AND NEW SOUND
Though he is openly gay, Sla mak clear that he’s no activist, but rather an artist of exprsn…who happens to be gay.
] album ver, ’s a great breakthrough for everyone, ” not jt for gay culture.
HOW DID GOSPEL ARTIST TONEX BEE GAY ACTIVIST B-SLA?
” —Gerren Keh Gaynor (@MrGerrenalist).
You’ll have more luck fdg him as B Sla, wavg a rabow striped flag at a Gay Pri para than ttifyg church circl. In so dog perhaps he beme the first well-known openly gay gospel artist and like Gaga believ homosexuals are “born this way.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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.
TONEX NOW KNOWN AS “B-SLA”: PERFORMS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY
In mid-2010, Tonex me out publicly as a gay Christian. I don't really f the gay muny eher.
” Now openly gay and still performg his tramark Gospel mic.
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