VH1 staged s first Divas Live ncert sce 2004 Thursday night. It was a benef for the Save the Mic Foundatn, which the past has hosted the lik of Arethra Frankl, Mariah Carey, Ta Turner, Cher, Diana Ross, and Whney Hoton. Cheryl Crow, Cyndi Lper, Melissa Etheridge, India Arie, Ale, and Marta McBri, four of the girls the lp, Jord Sparks, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson. While was a great night all around famed lbian rocker Etheridge and wish-she-were gay Clarkson blew the doors of the place. Pl, Pla Abdul as Ellen Degener!
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CHANCE THE RAPPER DEFENDS DAVE CHAPPELLE’S “GAY JOK” COMMENT IN GHANA
Chance then explaed how the bill go agast his sire to create a Black “homogeno power. “The ia that we uld be one homogeno power the world om the ia that we mt all be Black. ”The Rollg Stone terviewer asked about Chappelle’s volvement and his ment about “gay jok” that one Twter er scribed as “bashg queer and trans people unprovoked.
” Chance asserted that the edian was makg an observatn regardg Ghana’s homophobia, not ntributg to .
“Dave was makg a ment about the edy scene Ghana when he said, ‘I bet gay jok go over so well here, ’ to which everybody lghed about. And he was makg a pot to say that Ghana, you n make jok about thgs that are about gay people, about trans people, about a lot of social nstcts, jt about anythg the world. “Where I was givg Dave the opportuny to speak about who we are as a muny bee he was takg so much pri the fact that he was rpected as a Black man Ghana, but I don’t know that he would be rpected that much if he was a gay Black man Ghana or if he was trans Ghana.