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Contents:
- EMEM ADMS THE INTERVIEW SCENE WHERE HE ME OUT AS GAY TOOK MULTIPLE TAK
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- EMEM IS GAY? THE RAPPER ONCE SAID “I’M MORE SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE HAVEN’T FIGURED IT OUT YET” – WATCH
- EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT
- IS EMEM GAY?
- IS EMEM GAY? THE TTH BEHD THE CONTROVERSY
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- EMEM RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CRICISM WH SAME LAME EXCSORRY I'M NOT SORRYFACG MORE ANTI-GAY ACCATNS FOR THE LYRICS OF 'RAP GOD,' EMEM STANDS BY HIS CLAIM THAT A HOMOPHOBIC SLUR IS JT A MON DISS. WHO'S TIRED OF THE BROKEN RERD?KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 04, 2013 4:07PM EST PIERRE ANDRIEU / AFPTHERE’S AN OLD TRICK HIP-HOP, WHERE A SOUND EFFECT MIMICS THE SCREECH OF A RERD BREAKG, AND THE SAME FEW BARS OF A SONG KEEP PLAYG OVER AND OVER AGA LOOP, LIKE A STUTTER. EMEM HAS BEEN G THE TRICK FOR OVER A NOW— HIS MIC AND HIS LIFE. SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, CRICS, CIVIL RIGHTS ANIZATNS, AND MIC FANS WH NSCIENC HAVE BLASTED EMEM OVER THE RAMPANT E OF LYRICS HIS SONGS THAT ULD BE NSTED AS HOMOPHOBIC, OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, HATEFUL AND OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY MUNY. AND SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, EMEM HAS NIED THAT HE IS FED BY ANY OF THOSE BIGOTRY-DITG ADJECTIV…BUT HAS GONE ON G THE NTROVERSIAL LANGUAGE ANYWAY. THE BROKEN RERD KEEPS ON SCREECHG. THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW TRACK, “RAP GOD,” OCTOBER SURFACED HOMOPHOBIA ACCATNS YET AGA. IN A NEW TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE, EMEM REFUT THEM. YET AGA. IN “RAP GOD,” HE RAPS ABOUT HIS ABILY TO “BREAK A MOTHERFUCKER’S TABLE OVER THE BACK OF A UPLE FAGGOTS AND CRACK HALF.” AND THERE’S THE RANT THE SAME SONG THAT “GAY” AS A SHAMG SULT: "LTLE GAY-LOOKG BOY / SO GAY I N BARELY SAY WH A STRAIGHT FACE-LOOKG BOY / YOU WNSG MASSACRE LIKE YOU WATCHG A CHURCH GATHERG TAKG PLACE-LOOKG BOY / 'OY VEY, THAT BOY'S GAY,' THAT'S ALL THEY SAY LOOKG-BOY / YOU TAKE A THUMBS UP, PAT ON THE BACK, THE WAY YOU GO OM YOUR LABEL EVERY DAY-LOOKG BOY."ROLLG STONE ASKS EMEM WHY, AFTER YEARS OF BEG LLED ANTI-GAY FOR HIS LYRICS AND YEARS OF TELLG TERVIEWERS HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH GAY PEOPLE, HE NTU TO E WORDS LIKE “FAGGOT” AND “GAY-LOOKG” AS AN SULT.“I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS WHOUT SAYG HOW I’VE SAID A LN TIM,” HE STARTS HIS RPONSE. (“TELL ABOUT ,” SAYS EVERYONE WHO’S TIRED OF HAVG TO POT OUT THAT HIS LYRICS ARE OFFENSIVE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HE SAYS HE DON’T TEND THEM TO BE.) HE THEN LNCH TO THE SAME STORY HE’S TOLD BEFORE, ABOUT HOW WHEN HE WAS GROWG UP, LLG SOMEONE A “FAGGOT” WAS JT AS MON AND MEANT THE SAME AS “LLG SOMEONE A BCH OR A PUNK OR ASSHOLE.” (REMD Y’ALL OF A CERTA BUTTER-LOVG CELEBRY CHEF AND HER JTIFITN OF THE E OF A RACIAL EPHET?) TO HIS CRED, EMEM’S RIGHT. HE HAS A SAID THIS ABOUT A LN TIM AT THIS POT, OR AT LEAST ONCE. MOST MEMORABLY, HE SAT DOWN WH A PRE-OUT ANRSON COOPER AND TOLD HIM “FAGGOT WAS, LIKE, WAS THROWN AROUND NSTANTLY, TO EACH OTHER, LIKE BATTLG, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?” HIS NCLN THEN, 2010: “I DON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WH NOBODY.” HIS NCLN NOW, AFTER ANOTHER ROUND OF NTROVERSY: “BUT THE REAL ME STG HERE NOW TALKG TO YOU HAS NO ISSU WH GAY, STRAIGHT, TRANSGENR AT ALL.” SCREECH. HEARG THAT RERD SCRATCH AND REPEAT? Y, Y. WE ARE AWARE THAT EMEM, ALLEGEDLY, HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY. BUT ISN’T HE ALSO, THEN, BEG A HYPOCRE WHO HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY? HE’S BEEN ADMIRABLY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT HIS FEELGS ON THE GAY MUNY AND THAT HE WISH NO ILL-WILL TOWARDS . HE EVEN ME OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE! BUT WHAT DO THOSE WORDS REALLY MEAN WHEN HE’S RELEASG A SONG WH LYRICS THAT EXPLICLY WISH ILL-WILL ON THE GAY MUNY? TO SAY THAT ACTNS SPEAK LOUR THAN WORDS MIGHT BE A LAZY CLICHé. BUT ’S NO LAZIER THAN G THE WORD “GAY” AS AN EMASCULATG SULT, SO HERE GO. SAYG HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH THE GAY MUNY SUPERFICIALLY DIT THAT EMEM ISN’T HOMOPHOBIC. BUT REPEATG THE SAME TIRED EXCE FOR WHY HE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS ANYWAY RENRS THE CLAIM ALL-BUT MEANGLS.THE ROLLG STONE TERVIEWER, DISAPPOTGLY, GIV EMEM AN EASY OUT AT THE END OF THE TERVIEW EXCERPT, SENTIALLY EXCG AWAY THE BEHAVR FOR HIM, SAYG, “I KD OF THOUGHT YOU WERE DOG BEE WHEN YOU’RE RAPPG AS SLIM SHADY, PART OF YOUR MISSN IS TO ANNOY PEOPLE.” IT’S AN OPPORTUNY FOR EM TO NOD EMPHATILLY AGREEMENT WHOUT FENDG HIS ARGUABLY HYPOCRIL BEHAVR WH ANY MORE PLEXY. “I THK PEOPLE KNOW MY PERSONAL STANCE ON THGS AND THE PERSONAS THAT I CREATE MY MIC,” HE SAYS. “AND IF SOMEONE DON’T UNRSTAND THAT BY NOW, I DON’T THK THERE’S ANYTHG I N DO TO CHANGE THEIR MD ABOUT .”THE RERD SPS ON. KEV FALLON
EMEM ADMS THE INTERVIEW SCENE WHERE HE ME OUT AS GAY TOOK MULTIPLE TAK
* eminem on gay rights *
Emem admted he stggled to get through a movie scene which he satrilly me out as gay bee Jam Fran was 'so f**kg funny' 'Lose Yourself' rapper, who is known for g the f-word slur his mic, had a meo appearance as himself the 2014 edy film The Interview starrg Seth Rogen and Jam has a fake terview wh Jam Fran The Interview. “When I say thgs about gay people, if people thk that my lyrics are homophobic, ’s bee I’m gay, ” Emem says 'me out' durg the absurd scene. Cred: Sony Pictur ReleasgSkylark naturally asks Emem to clarify what he meant, to which Slim Shady doubl down and nfirms ‘I am a homosexual’ which leads to ‘gay Twter blowg up’ and ‘the greatt moment gay history’, acrdg to news producer Aaron Rapaport (Rogen) asked directly if he dislik gay people, Emem replied: “No, I don't have any problem wh nobody.
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . “Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.
Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * eminem on gay rights *
Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said.
Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law. Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said.
In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims. Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
In today’s throwback piece, we take you to 2014 when rapper Emem stunned all by sayg he was gay. Watch him talkg about here. * eminem on gay rights *
Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace.
EMEM IS GAY? THE RAPPER ONCE SAID “I’M MORE SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE HAVEN’T FIGURED IT OUT YET” – WATCH
Emem may or may not be gay. There is no exact answer to this as the famo rapper has not given a ncrete explanatn about his sexualy yet. * eminem on gay rights *
"The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex. When Emem Said “I’ve Been Playg Gay Peek-A-Boo For Years” & Left The Host Stunned Beyond Words – Watch ( Photo Cred – Emem / Flickr).
Well, ’s the rapper’s 2014 meo appearance as himself where he said he was GAY. Durg the scripted terview, Emem —who has been equently acced of beg homophobic owg to the e of the f-word nsistently, out as gay.
EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT
Facg more anti-gay accatns for the lyrics of 'Rap God,' Emem stands by his claim that a homophobic slur is jt a mon diss. Who's tired of the broken rerd? * eminem on gay rights *
The vio then se the Love the Way You Lie rapper tellg Jam Fran’s character, “I’ve been playg gay peek-a-boo for years. First of all, Emem is monstrably not homophobic, though maybe some lyrics suggt .
IS EMEM GAY?
But I gus jt bee he go along wh gay pranks and has gay iends don't mean he necsarily believ equaly. Now at this pot, all you n really say is that he is cidly progrsive on the issue of homosexualy, no matter how you view his method of exprsg that. He's sayg the antidote to homophobia is lettg lose and acknowledgg the real self.
Marshall Mathers, also known by his stage name Emem, one of the most succsful rappers of all time, ma a meo the highly ntroversial edy film The Interview, which he plays himself, announcg durg an terview that he is gay. Acrdg to Emem, when asked about the movie and s dialogue, which he nonchalantly proclaimed to be a gay man, the rapper said that he ad-libbed that whole scene himself, and that although the film was played like a joke, was his way of discsg his te opn on the matters of sex and celebri. The rapper, who has been tensely sctized throughout his reer for g homophobic slurs, said that he jt ed rogatory terms to be ironic, and that his sex life is private, and that everyone’s sex life should be as public or as private as they want to be.
“After puttg a lot of thought to , I me to the ultimate ncln that there are probably thoands, if not lns of fans of me that are gay and livg a lie. Sheeran released his sixth stud album "Subtract" May, jt one day after he prevailed a jury trial related to accatns the Brish sger pied Marv Gaye's 1973 h "Let's Get On" his 2014 Grammy-wng song "Thkg Out Loud.
IS EMEM GAY? THE TTH BEHD THE CONTROVERSY
There is no exact answer to this as the famo rapper has not given a ncrete explanatn about his sexualy 2014, Emem once me out as gay durg his meo Sony's film, The Interview.
However, is also to be noted that, the rapper has often e unr the b for g the f-word and has been acced of beg homophobic.
Durg the scripted Interview the film, Emem durg his nversatn wh Jam Fran's character nfsed that he was gay. To which Emem aga nfs that he was gay and is heard sayg, "I’m more shocked that people haven’t figured out yet.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
His appearance the film sparked a bate about his sexualy when he said he was gay. In the scene om ‘The Interview’, Dave Skylark (played by Jam Fran) terviews Emem who rponds to a qutn about beg gay wh an affirmative answer.
” This le is seen as a joke by some viewers and as proof that Emem is actually gay by others.
In his meo The Interview, Emem tells Dave Skylark that he is gay. After all, if Emem had actually been g out as gay this scene then would have bee an even bigger story than already was when the film first me out. Some people pot out that Emem has had a history of beg homophobic his lyrics and mic vios throughout his reer.
EMEM RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CRICISM WH SAME LAME EXCSORRY I'M NOT SORRYFACG MORE ANTI-GAY ACCATNS FOR THE LYRICS OF 'RAP GOD,' EMEM STANDS BY HIS CLAIM THAT A HOMOPHOBIC SLUR IS JT A MON DISS. WHO'S TIRED OF THE BROKEN RERD?KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 04, 2013 4:07PM EST PIERRE ANDRIEU / AFPTHERE’S AN OLD TRICK HIP-HOP, WHERE A SOUND EFFECT MIMICS THE SCREECH OF A RERD BREAKG, AND THE SAME FEW BARS OF A SONG KEEP PLAYG OVER AND OVER AGA LOOP, LIKE A STUTTER. EMEM HAS BEEN G THE TRICK FOR OVER A NOW— HIS MIC AND HIS LIFE. SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, CRICS, CIVIL RIGHTS ANIZATNS, AND MIC FANS WH NSCIENC HAVE BLASTED EMEM OVER THE RAMPANT E OF LYRICS HIS SONGS THAT ULD BE NSTED AS HOMOPHOBIC, OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, HATEFUL AND OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY MUNY. AND SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, EMEM HAS NIED THAT HE IS FED BY ANY OF THOSE BIGOTRY-DITG ADJECTIV…BUT HAS GONE ON G THE NTROVERSIAL LANGUAGE ANYWAY. THE BROKEN RERD KEEPS ON SCREECHG. THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW TRACK, “RAP GOD,” OCTOBER SURFACED HOMOPHOBIA ACCATNS YET AGA. IN A NEW TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE, EMEM REFUT THEM. YET AGA. IN “RAP GOD,” HE RAPS ABOUT HIS ABILY TO “BREAK A MOTHERFUCKER’S TABLE OVER THE BACK OF A UPLE FAGGOTS AND CRACK HALF.” AND THERE’S THE RANT THE SAME SONG THAT “GAY” AS A SHAMG SULT: "LTLE GAY-LOOKG BOY / SO GAY I N BARELY SAY WH A STRAIGHT FACE-LOOKG BOY / YOU WNSG MASSACRE LIKE YOU WATCHG A CHURCH GATHERG TAKG PLACE-LOOKG BOY / 'OY VEY, THAT BOY'S GAY,' THAT'S ALL THEY SAY LOOKG-BOY / YOU TAKE A THUMBS UP, PAT ON THE BACK, THE WAY YOU GO OM YOUR LABEL EVERY DAY-LOOKG BOY."ROLLG STONE ASKS EMEM WHY, AFTER YEARS OF BEG LLED ANTI-GAY FOR HIS LYRICS AND YEARS OF TELLG TERVIEWERS HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH GAY PEOPLE, HE NTU TO E WORDS LIKE “FAGGOT” AND “GAY-LOOKG” AS AN SULT.“I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS WHOUT SAYG HOW I’VE SAID A LN TIM,” HE STARTS HIS RPONSE. (“TELL ABOUT ,” SAYS EVERYONE WHO’S TIRED OF HAVG TO POT OUT THAT HIS LYRICS ARE OFFENSIVE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HE SAYS HE DON’T TEND THEM TO BE.) HE THEN LNCH TO THE SAME STORY HE’S TOLD BEFORE, ABOUT HOW WHEN HE WAS GROWG UP, LLG SOMEONE A “FAGGOT” WAS JT AS MON AND MEANT THE SAME AS “LLG SOMEONE A BCH OR A PUNK OR ASSHOLE.” (REMD Y’ALL OF A CERTA BUTTER-LOVG CELEBRY CHEF AND HER JTIFITN OF THE E OF A RACIAL EPHET?) TO HIS CRED, EMEM’S RIGHT. HE HAS A SAID THIS ABOUT A LN TIM AT THIS POT, OR AT LEAST ONCE. MOST MEMORABLY, HE SAT DOWN WH A PRE-OUT ANRSON COOPER AND TOLD HIM “FAGGOT WAS, LIKE, WAS THROWN AROUND NSTANTLY, TO EACH OTHER, LIKE BATTLG, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?” HIS NCLN THEN, 2010: “I DON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WH NOBODY.” HIS NCLN NOW, AFTER ANOTHER ROUND OF NTROVERSY: “BUT THE REAL ME STG HERE NOW TALKG TO YOU HAS NO ISSU WH GAY, STRAIGHT, TRANSGENR AT ALL.” SCREECH. HEARG THAT RERD SCRATCH AND REPEAT? Y, Y. WE ARE AWARE THAT EMEM, ALLEGEDLY, HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY. BUT ISN’T HE ALSO, THEN, BEG A HYPOCRE WHO HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY? HE’S BEEN ADMIRABLY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT HIS FEELGS ON THE GAY MUNY AND THAT HE WISH NO ILL-WILL TOWARDS . HE EVEN ME OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE! BUT WHAT DO THOSE WORDS REALLY MEAN WHEN HE’S RELEASG A SONG WH LYRICS THAT EXPLICLY WISH ILL-WILL ON THE GAY MUNY? TO SAY THAT ACTNS SPEAK LOUR THAN WORDS MIGHT BE A LAZY CLICHé. BUT ’S NO LAZIER THAN G THE WORD “GAY” AS AN EMASCULATG SULT, SO HERE GO. SAYG HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH THE GAY MUNY SUPERFICIALLY DIT THAT EMEM ISN’T HOMOPHOBIC. BUT REPEATG THE SAME TIRED EXCE FOR WHY HE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS ANYWAY RENRS THE CLAIM ALL-BUT MEANGLS.THE ROLLG STONE TERVIEWER, DISAPPOTGLY, GIV EMEM AN EASY OUT AT THE END OF THE TERVIEW EXCERPT, SENTIALLY EXCG AWAY THE BEHAVR FOR HIM, SAYG, “I KD OF THOUGHT YOU WERE DOG BEE WHEN YOU’RE RAPPG AS SLIM SHADY, PART OF YOUR MISSN IS TO ANNOY PEOPLE.” IT’S AN OPPORTUNY FOR EM TO NOD EMPHATILLY AGREEMENT WHOUT FENDG HIS ARGUABLY HYPOCRIL BEHAVR WH ANY MORE PLEXY. “I THK PEOPLE KNOW MY PERSONAL STANCE ON THGS AND THE PERSONAS THAT I CREATE MY MIC,” HE SAYS. “AND IF SOMEONE DON’T UNRSTAND THAT BY NOW, I DON’T THK THERE’S ANYTHG I N DO TO CHANGE THEIR MD ABOUT .”THE RERD SPS ON. KEV FALLON
However, recent years he seems to have softened his stance on LGBT issu as evinced by his llaboratn wh openly gay sger Elton John (who even attend one of his ncerts). This suggts that while Emem may not be gay himself, he is much more acceptg and open-md when to LGBT rights than he ed to be. Emem has never directly answered the qutn of whether or not he is actually gay.
There are those who believe that Emem is gay based on this small moment The Interview. They pot to the rapper’s long history of g homophobic slurs his songs and say that this uld be his way of g out whout actually sayg directly.
However, there is also pellg evince that suggts Emem is not gay at all.