Frank Ocean is gay, or at least bisexual, acrdg to a post he put out on microbloggg platform tumblr.
Contents:
- FRANK OCEAN: ‘I CRIED THE NIGHT I ME OUT AS GAY’
- FRANK OCEAN GAY? RAPPER TALKS ABOUT MALE LOVER
- FRANK OCEAN IS GAY? FANS REACT AFTER LEARNG OF ALLEGED HOMOSEXUALY
- FUSE TV - TYLER, THE CREATOR KNEW FRANK OCEAN WAS GAY BEE OF HIS SNACK PREFERENC
FRANK OCEAN: ‘I CRIED THE NIGHT I ME OUT AS GAY’
21 Great Gay Moments In Mic. Frank Ocean has said that he “cried like a fuckg baby” the night he me out as gay.
FRANK OCEAN GAY? RAPPER TALKS ABOUT MALE LOVER
The ‘Pyramids’ sger revealed that he was motivated to wre the post on Tumblr, which he said he was gay, after he Skyped to a Def Jam ‘Channel Orange’ listeng ssn and noticed one of the journalists was “very harmlsly” wrg a piece about how often he male pronouns songs. The ia that sexualy n't be saddled wh even one of our liberal labels is profound and beyond our culture's grasp on queerns — we haven't even gotten everybody on board wh the ia that gay is OK I nnot help but wonr if there somethg ls forthg behd his unwillgns to label himself.
Says there's a stigma that exists for gay men, and he don't see himself that way. "I don't want to get ught up the whole gay culture bee people look at gay people as beg ls than a man, that you are this ls than, " he says.
"The greatt taboo is to be black and homosexual, and I refe to be labeled and classified as this character.
FRANK OCEAN IS GAY? FANS REACT AFTER LEARNG OF ALLEGED HOMOSEXUALY
Says men the black muny who e out and say, "I'm gay and proud, " are treated differently. "All of a sudn I bee: 'Oh, I want you to meet my gay iend, J. I want you to meet my gay brother, J.
I want you to meet my gay father, J.
"(In 2010, Kg aga went on Wey's show and changed his story: "I have accepted the fact that I am a black, gay, proud man.
FUSE TV - TYLER, THE CREATOR KNEW FRANK OCEAN WAS GAY BEE OF HIS SNACK PREFERENC
" "Frank Ocean Com Out and Be the First Gay Rapper History.
" That last one is wrong on several levels: Ocean did not e the word "gay, " nor is he a rapper, nor would he be the first gay rapper if eher of those labels applied. Especially black mic, which has long been sperate need of a voice like Ocean's to break the layers of homophobia. " At, Jaah Lemix noted that while few urban artists openly embrace homosexualy, many are "the closet wh the glass door, " livg a life they don't reveal their mic.
"I hope that Frank Ocean don't bee 'the gay sger, ' for would be crimally unfair for him to wear that label as so many of his peers are sleepg wh and lovg same genred persons, while sellg imag of hyper-heterosexualy, " she wrote. Unlike the standard g out gture – newsman Anrson Cooper's public email to his iend Andrew Sullivan, "The fact is, I'm gay" — Ocean's prented sexualy as somethg that aris wh particular circumstanc, fed by shiftg sire and dividual enunters rather than solidifyg as an inty. There is a leage of Ain Amerin artists who've prented broar fns of sexualy through their songs and their public personali, as well, though homophobia has certaly kept many more om livg fully hont liv.