'Love and Hip Hop Hollywood' -- New Cast Member ... Rappers Won't Shoot wh Me 'Cse I'm Gay

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'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood' sts an openly gay rapper, which has sparked some major backlash om the other straight male stars on the show.

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BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND

The newt member of "Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" believ he's beg shunned by st members bee they don't want to share the small screen wh an openly gay rapper. * gay cast of love and hip hop *

Well bee hip hop is known as beg herently homophobic (i do not believe that but 's a stereotype), and although there has been and still is homophobia the hip hop muny, queer rappers and hip hop heads are out here. Depictns of same-sex upl and gay culture are beg more and more mon to televisn, yet documentg a relatnship between two men the historilly homophobic world of hip hop may be a Christopher and Mil Brock hope their story will help affect change a muny that’s been largely ristant to UP for the ee Indie Foc movi newsletter >>“It’s hard bee there is no prototype to follow, ” said Christopher, 29, over drks Hollywood. ”On Monday, an anticipated episo which Brock out to his ex-girliend will be followed by a special roundtable discsn regardg homophobia hip hop.

'LOVE AND HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD' -- NEW CAST MEMBER ... RAPPERS WON'T SHOOT WH ME 'CSE I'M GAY

* gay cast of love and hip hop *

Christopher is openly gay but Brock’s fay didn’t know about his sexualy before the show premiered (some of his fay members are no longer speakg to him, he said). Last year “Empire” broke ground by featurg a black gay character for s drama that tak place the world of hip hop.

Historilly, realy seri have relegated gay men to the sikick/bt-iend role; characters who orb around straight unterparts. Black gay men have been further siled, limed to stereotypil rol such as stylists or personal doceri, “Tha Life Atlanta, ” bucked the trend by showg myriad black gay men livg and lovg, but was only seen onle after multiple works passed on a show as groundbreakg as MTV’s “The Real World, ” rponsible for showg some of realy televisn’s earlit imag of queer life Ameri, experienced a shock a ago when a black man me out a season where had already st a gay roommate ( was the first time the show featured two gay men s st).

‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ CASTS GAY RAPPER MILAN CHRISTOPHER

Christopher and Brock’s prence on a high-profile platform such as VH1 uld help chip away at least some of the misogyny and homophobia herent rap culture. Still, the ia of a gay male breakg mastream rap seems unheard of. “I want to do hardre rap, ” Christopher said, “but I’ve had iends say you shouldn’t bee you’re gay.

A and Public Enemy ma no qualms about their disda for gay men their lyrics.

THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

By the late ‘90s, the Beastie Boys had formally apologized for homophobic lyrics s semal 1986 but, “Licensed to Ill” (which was origally supposed to be tled “Don’t Be a Faggot”). Tyler, the Creator has repeatedly argued his age of gay slurs. 50 Cent once publicly nounced gay men “but women who like women, ” he said, “that’s ol.

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‘Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood’ Casts Gay Rapper Milan Christopher –.

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