Gay Mic Ins: Gee Michael, Lil Nas X, Troye Sivan, Adam Lambert – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
• 14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• 30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)
• THE GAME LLS OUT CLOSETED GAY RAPPERS
• 21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY
• GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP
• HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• THE GAME CALLS FOR GAY RAPPERS TO COME OUT THE CLOSET
• RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• GAY RAPPERS: TOO REAL FOR HIP-HOP?

29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY

Tim ntue to change Hollywood and around the the past uple years, more and more celebri have e out of the closet as plenty of other celebri have been acced of beg gay. This all stemmed om a sce-leted CNN iReport (a lame subsectn of the media outlet prisg “cizen journalists” om around the world) that read: “The famo pop-star Bno Mars adms his homosexualy. So ’s a ltle hard when you go home and people are like – and that’s why people thk I’m gay – bee they’re like ‘Why aren’t you married?

Jam Fran has played many gay men on screen, but: “There are lots of other reasons to be terted gay characters than wantg myself to go out and have sex wh guys, ” he once told Entertament Weekly. Former Jersey Shore -star and hoemate, Snooki, said the past of The Suatn: “He told me one time, ‘[All the gay talk is] makg me wonr. Tom Cise has been married to three women and filed multiple lawsus agast publitns that have claimed he’s homosexual.

14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY

Hogan’s ex-wife, Lda, once said the wrtler had an affair wh former WWE sta Bt Beefke, to which Hogan said::Jt to say somethg speful and hurtful, I don’t get …if was te and I was gay, I’d embrace , and I’d tell you guys about and I’d celebrate . ” For the openly gay rapper/sger, Montero — spired by his birth name — is a place where one is ee to be who they are.

Ricky Mart — who announced he was a “proud homosexual” 2010 after years of speculatn, cludg an famo terview wh Barbara Walters that Mart recently said still hnts him — ro a wave of succs driven largely by a loyal female fanbase eager to watch him shake is “bon-bon.

Puttg asi the song’s associatn of love wh a “crime” beg juxtaposed wh a lyric like “Greet me wh the ey of a child, ” “Father Figure” se Michael stg himself the role of a proxy parent, an trigug but perhaps predictable velopment given the prevalence of “daddy” culture the gay muny. “Seventeen” is clearly about sex, but ’s also about the kd of self-disvery that gay men of Michael’s generatn were equently prived of their formative years.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Sivan, who’s 26, has said he uldn’t relate to Michael growg up, and the unapologetic, joyo portras of queer sire that he and Lil Nas X nvey their mic feel far removed om the srce, thly veiled songs about the gay experience that existed around the time they were born.

30 BT GAY RAPPERS (LGBTQ+ HIP-HOP ARTISTS)

Michael’s long-awaed third album, 1996’s Olr — the release of which cid wh my own sexual awakeng at the height of the AIDS epimic — rerced the myopic visn of gay life as one of danger, sadns, and misery that my generatn was tght school and by the media.

Many of the gay men who survived the plague have variably suffered a form of PTSD, triggered by the naggg spicn that they unjtly ped ath while their lovers and iends perished. Openly gay sger Adam Lambert has lled g out “an act of fiance, ” and while Michael was given ltle choice the timg and manner of his own, he was far om ntre the mic vio for “Outsi, ” released jt a few months later to promote his first greatt hs album.

After g out, Michael stantly beme a gay in, but he was a reluctant one, tormented by the ath of his first love and stgglg to rencile the fact that the massive succs he’d achieved was staed by pretendg to be someone else. Ultimately, Ges Kyrias Panaytou may not have ever found the gay Shangri-la that Lil Nas X scrib his vio, but “Montero” might not have ever existed whout him. There has been a well-known stigma towards homosexualy hip-hop which has led to some artists’ reers beg tarnished by mors that they had associatns wh people of the same sex.

THE GAME LLS OUT CLOSETED GAY RAPPERS

While his h song “Old Town Road” was at the top of the Billboard Top 100 Chart for a rerd-breakg 19 weeks, Lil Nas X ma the brave cisn to e out as a gay rapper.

21 BT GAY RAPPERS WHO EMBODY THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY

Mista Strange, a drill rapper om Bra, has shared his experience of beg a publicly gay rapper and how often leads to unrtimatn.

In one of his tracks, he touch upon this subject wh the lyrics, “Won’t let me through ‘e I’m back like Santan, Won’t let me through ‘e I’m gay like Schofield. As a gay Lat female rerdg artist, Snow Tha Product acknowledg that her journey hasn’t been smooth, but she emphasiz that honty is ccial. This tweet, which was both ndid and wty, required a lot of urage to liver, particularly 2017 when beg a gay rapper was still a ntroversial topic the mic dtry.

GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP

He distguish himself his mic by beg ndid about his sexualy and sex life, which is not unmon for heterosexual hip-hop artists but is not typil for gay artists. However, tim have changed, and the artists would face backlash if they exprsed homophobic sentiments today, unlike 1996. Da Brat ced the pervasive homophobia of the ’90s for her cisn not to e out earlier and said that people like Ellen faced signifint backlash for beg openly gay.

However, he ultimately accepted that his happs and the value of the 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 several 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. In April 2021, Kehlani publicly me out as gay through a TikTok vio, which she joyfully exclaimed, “I am gay, gay, gay.

HERE ARE HIP-HOP ARTISTS WHO EMBRACE BEG GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

Grammy-wng producer and DJ Kaytranada publicly me out as gay 2016 after releasg his highly acclaimed but album 99.

The rapper also llaborated wh openly gay hip-hop artist iLoveMakonnen, provg that diversy and acceptance were at the foreont of his creative visn.

Although there’s a long way to go before the discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ artists be a thg of the past, the rise of gay artists is a sign that the hip-hop dtry has started to break away om the notns.

THE GAME CALLS FOR GAY RAPPERS TO COME OUT THE CLOSET

For years, mors have swirled around the hip-hop world that many of s top artists were the closet, but to date, no mastream rapper has e forward to say he or she is homosexual. Dpe many popular emce htg that there were gay rappers out there (and Miss Wendy nstantly tryg to out folks the biz), no one has been outed th far. The Game looked shocked, and proceed to give his stance on homosexualy (he’s ol wh as long as they aren’t the closet).

RAPPERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

I thk there are several rappers that are the closet and gay, and see those are the type of gay people—the only type of gay people that I have a problem wh. Game has a problem wh people that are pretendg not to be gay and are gay bee the number one issue wh that is that you uld be foolg somebody and you uld give them AIDS and they n die and so that the closet s— is real sry.

GAY RAPPERS: TOO REAL FOR HIP-HOP?

Then that sh spreads bee that girl that you might be foolg might leave you and go fd another du who a’t gay and give him the disease. In spe of our society beg progrsively acceptg of gays and lbians, hip-hop remas a very genred and hyper-mascule space that views heterosexual prows as a badge. Until rappers feel their fans (and their peers) will love them regardls of who they sleep wh, we’ll ntue to hear mors about who is and who isn’t gay.