Frank Ocean: 'I cried the night I me out as gay'

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’

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Frank Ocean has said that he “cried like a fuckg baby” the night he me out as gay. 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.

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FRANK OCEAN GAY? RAPPER TALKS ABOUT MALE LOVER

"The greatt taboo is to be black and homosexual, and I refe to be labeled and classified as this character.

Says men the black muny who e out and say, "I'm gay and proud, " are treated differently.

FRANK OCEAN IS GAY? FANS REACT AFTER LEARNG OF ALLEGED HOMOSEXUALY

"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. " "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.

FUSE TV - TYLER, THE CREATOR KNEW FRANK OCEAN WAS GAY BEE OF HIS SNACK PREFERENC

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.

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