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”Speakg of Shaol, his e of a homophobic slur this episo was ’s dg e this episo was appropriately disorientg and unfortable.

Thor v Dizzee to this party SoHo, which turns out to be an unrground gay club. ” Like, she’s clearly jt dog to get unr her father’s sk, but Herbert don’t take the episo featur Christa Aguilera and Nile Rodgers’ “Telepathy” the unrground gay club Get Down started out as a ms, but improved as the season went on.

Some of s very first hmakers were part of, if not closely adjacent to, queer muni, and some of s first mil and technil novatns premiered at gay clubs. But 's not the history fans ually they read are 50 Cent's bizarre endorsements of gay marriage — as long as gay men don't "touch your buns" elevators. " Or Kanye Wt's 2005 observatn that, to much of the hip-hop muny, "the exact oppose word of 'hip-hop' is 'gay.

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Homophobia hip-hop is pervasive, y, but the first stallment of The Get Down — the new star-studd Netflix seri chroniclg the very begngs of hip-hop cir 1977 — is termed to add nuance to this narrative.

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"The top DJs are all, by and large, homosexuals. " In realy, those DJs had nam like Larry Levan:And Nicky Siano:And even openly gay sger Sylvter Sylvter:While The Get Down do a good job of illtratg the tertwed history of dis and early hip-hop, 's the sixth and fal episo of the season where the show really mak s pot about queer muni' ntributns to hip-hop. Thor tak Dizzee to one of New York Cy's legendary drag balls — one of the plac where New York Cy's tastemakg homosexual DJs break new rerds.

Hip-hop has long been seen — and, sometim, rightfully so — as a homophobic art form riddled wh homoerotic gturg. Many of s early gay ins chose to keep their sexualy private.

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"The guys I refer to as homie-sexual are, clilly speakg, homosexual. But they very much take on a machismo that separat them om associatns wh words like 'gay, ' 'queer' and most pecially 'fag.

"Related | We Need to Talk About Jan Smh's 'Gay Kiss' on The Get DownTheir relatnship failed to advance past a few longg star and a forehead touch, so wh the premiere of Part 2, quirg mds wanted to know: would they at least get to send base or what?

) the gayt thg you'll see on TV this year, and B. There's more liberty to explore what should've been a really tertg storyle, but stead 's eclipsed by more forward thkg shows like the tween fare on wh Part 1, I'm not sure if the reticence to show a more explicly queer romance is a creative cisn--Lee Daniels faced some flack om the hip-hop muny for his gay storyl on Empire--or one ma out of nsiratn for the actors.

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